Oklahoma Officer Arrested for Sexually Assaulting 7 Black Women While on Duty

The right wing media is going to protect this man as well.

Link:  http://shine.forharriet.com/2014/08/oklahoma-officer-arrested-for-sexually.html

                       Take a good look at that man.  He's disgusting and conservative media 

                  are going to discredit the Black victims just to protect that coward.

Mariah Carey Fired Nick Out The Cannon!

Famed pop singer Mariah Carey six year marriage to reality star/hapless talent Nick Cannon may have went south pole. There's talk that the two have been on ice for months and the lawyers are trying to divide up the assets and custody of their two twins.

On a Power 106 FM, a Los Angeles hip-hop station, Cannon went to naming who he's banged (and tried to marry). One in particular got his ass was the fact he was one of the many men who banged Kanye West's wife Kim Kardashian. He talks to hip-hop/celebrity agitator Big Boy about his conquest.

The trouble comes at the peak of Cannon's rise to fame. He released the controversial rap album White People Party Music this year. He also rebooted Wild'n Out. He signed on a few more gigs with America's Got Talent. That added to the royalties from Mariah's catalog got them netting over $550 million.

Nick Cannon has confirmed that the marriage is over.

Mariah Carey, 44 and Cannon 33 have been married since 2008. They didn't barely know each other. Six weeks later they've confirmed they got hitched. They ended up having two children Marilyn and Morocco.

Family Of John Crawford Wants Walmart To Release Video!

Attorney General Mike DeWine will order a special prosecutor in the Beavercreek Walmart shooting.

Republican Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine has ordered an inquiry into the shooting of John Crawford, III.

As the country is still simmering over the shooting of unarmed teen Michael Brown, the state of Ohio is trying to make sure that the facts are heard. They don't want the residents of Dayton to loot and riot.

A couple of weeks ago, we reported on the shooting at a Beavercreek, Ohio Walmart. The shooting was officer involved.

Officer Sean Williams on administrative leave.

Crawford has no criminal record and was holding a pellet gun at the time of the incident. A witness called the law to tip them off to a crazed gunman in the store. Apparently Crawford took an air rifle off the shelve and was playing around with it.

There was video surveillance of the incident.

CBS News reports that April and Ronald Ritchie, of Riverside, told WHIO that they were in the hardware department Tuesday around 8:20 p.m. when they saw a man walking the aisles carrying what they thought was a real gun, pointing it toward the sky. The couple called 911.

The couple said they followed Crawford at a safe distance. "Anytime I saw people walking his way, I would get their attention," April Ritchie said. She said the man was cradling a cellphone between his left ear and shoulder while he messed with the rifle.

"He just kept messing with it and I heard a clicking," April Ritchie said.

Ronald Ritchie said Crawford "was just waving [the gun] at children and people...I couldn't hear anything that he was saying. I'm thinking that he is either going to rob the place or he's there to shoot somebody.

Officer David Darkow is back on.

"He didn't really want to be looked at and when people did look at him, he was pointing the gun at them. He was pointing at people. Children walking by," Ronald Ritchie said.

The station reports that police arrived and told Crawford to put the weapon down. The Ritchies said two shots were fired, knocking the suspect backward. When Crawford reportedly tried to get up, he was tackled by an officer who then handcuffed him and turned him on his back.

The Montgomery County coroner's office confirmed that Crawford died at the hospital as a result of the gunshots fired by police.

Angie Williams, a woman leaving the store had a medical emergency on her way fleeing. She and Crawford were the two causalities of this incident.

Questions remain. Did the police see the weapon being drawn at them?

The officers who were involved in the shooting are still on personal leave. Standard procedure when it comes to an officer drawing its service weapon.

Scott Brogli was killed by Officer Williams.

WHIO-TV reports that Beavercreek city attorney Stephen McHugh said Sgt. David Darkow has returned to work, while Officer Sean Williams remains on administrative leave.

Neither McHugh nor the Ohio Attorney General's Office has confirmed that Williams fired the shot that killed Crawford in the Beavercreek store after police said Crawford twice ignored commands to put down an air rifle pellet gun.

After showing a short portion of Walmart's surveillance video to Crawford's parents, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine announced Tuesday that a special Greene County grand jury will convene Sept. 3 to determine whether criminal charges are appropriate.

John Crawford III was a father and son. His death still begs the question, he had an air rifle. Why did they fire upon him if it wasn't a deadly weapon?

Williams, a nine-year veteran on the force, was involved in Beavercreek's first fatal police-involved shooting on June 27, 2010. Williams shot and killed retired Air Force Master Sgt. Scott A. Brogli, 45, after the man charged him and another officer while carrying a large kitchen knife. Brogli died from a single gunshot wound to the chest, as his 17-year-old son watched the incident unfold.

Beavercreek police were investigating a domestic violence call involving Brogli and his wife, who fled their apartment and drove away before police arrived. A toxicology report later indicated Brogli's blood-alcohol level at the time of the incident was 0.163 — more than twice the 0.08 legal limit for driving in Ohio.

On Aug. 30, 2010, a nine-member Greene County Court of Common Pleas grand jury determined Williams acted correctly and in self-defense when he killed Brogli.

Shawn James, Black Freelance Writer: No Good Deed- Return of the Black Brute to Cinema

Shawn James, Black Freelance Writer: No Good Deed- Return of the Black Brute to Cinema



At a time when Black men are being gunned down by police, nonblack men, and other Black men, Hollywood is promoting that racist movie.  History is repeating itself. 



Please don't spend your precious money on that movie.

K.C. Cop May Have To Shake After Posting Racial Comments About Michael Brown Shooting!

This is not Michael Brown.

The racist right overacts to the crisis in Ferguson. Another night of rioting and looting continues despite embattled governor Jay Nixon's (D-MO) curfew.

Over 50 people were arrested after a night of protests in which some have thrown rocks at the law.

St. Louis County prosecutor is weighing the options on whether the evidence determines that Ferguson officer Darren Wilson used excessive force in the firing of his service weapon.

Michael Brown was shot six times after a confrontation with Ferguson police. Witnesses say that he had his hands up when the law shot and killed him. The law says that he tried to struggle for the service weapon and punched the officer. He was a suspect in a robbery at a local store according to the law.

Anyway this ongoing crisis will be covered by me and S. Baldwin. Even the agitators and their impact on this situation.

Lets travel at least 232 miles to the Kansas City metropolitan area. There's an officer who is under investigation after he reposted a chain message on the social networks. The officer couldn't figure out the right Black person. He thought the picture of a Black guy holding a wad of cash in his mouth and pointing a pistol was the unarmed teen Michael Brown.

Marc Catron will probably be warned not to be on the social networks again. He's under investigation after he reposted a chain message on that social network. Catron claimed that [he's] sure that young Michael Brown is innocent and just misunderstood. Catron sarcastically stated that Brown was a pillar of the Ferguson community. What tipped his superiors off was the fact that he posted a picture of another Black person, inserted his opinion, ignored his policies on commenting on law enforcement issues, and using social networking to promote a message that may tip off the junk food media. When he's appointed in law enforcement, Catron should have heed warnings of showing impartial judgment. He going to get his papers if not a demotion.

Catron was smart enough to run his mouth on the comparisons to OJ Simpson and Trayvon Martin situation.

“Remember how white people rioted after OJ’s acquittal? Me neither."

Okay, here's a rundown on how our freedom of speech. He can make his opinion on how he feels about young Black teens and celebrities such as Simpson.

He can even claim that all BLACKS are criminals. After all I am guessing he's an avid listener of talk radio and viewer of Loserville. I am certain that he's already assumed that Brown's killing was justified because he heard from a racist right blog saying he charged at an officer. Of course he had no weapon on him.

Catron could wear a badge and get behind the wheel of a patrol vehicle. He can probably assume that all Black motorists are under the influence of drugs or alcohol. He can say that wrong signal is merit for arrest.

After all he assumes that all Blacks are reactionary and may try something that may draw a service weapon.

Myrightwingdad.com once again collects the most offensive right wing emails. This once probably circulated around the internet. This picture is not Michael Brown. Unfortunately the racist right doesn't care. It's another Black criminal regardless.

You can't fix stupid. KC Cop gets a talking to after posting racial slurs on his social networking page.

Again the perception of Black men holding firearms always seem to get more play in the junk food media.

When you see White folks with firearms, the media may perceive it as a negativity. But not as much as Black person who holds money in his mouth while showing off his pistol. I mean it's not like he's committing a crime, but to the racist right, it's enough to say he deserves to be killed too.

The image is of Joda Cain's, the teen who is accused of killing his great grandma.

Cain and his cousin, 20-year-old Micus Ward (left), face aggravated murder charges in Bell's killing according to The Oregonian.

We here at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences to all gun shooting victims, Michael Brown, John Crawford III, and Jacqueline Bell.

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The Woman Who Filmed The Michael Brown Shooting Fears For Her Life!

Piaget Crenshaw at a mural for Michael Brown. She along with her attorney goes to CNN to disspell the racist right's account of the Michael Brown shooting.

Piaget Crenshaw with her attorney goes to CNN to tell the junk food media that the events that sparked riots into the St. Louis metropolitan area was triggered Ferguson officer Darren Wilson.

Crenshaw said that her first month living in the Ferguson has been a nightmare. She was trying to go to work and the commotion outside drove her to record it.

She believes Wilson was caught on film shooting a fleeing Brown. The teen paused and turned to face Wilson with his hands up. He would shot Brown in the face with his service weapon.

She wants to disspell the racist right's account of unarmed teen Michael Brown.

“I knew this was not right, I knew police should not even have been chasing this young boy and firing at the same time,” Crenshaw told CNN. “That fact that he got shot in the face, it was something that clicked in me, I thought, somebody else needs to see this. This isn’t right.”

Crenshaw said there was a struggle at the police car in which it seemed Wilson was trying to draw Brown in. Brown took off running, and Crenshaw said Wilson began firing; when Brown turned around, he was shot multiple times. Crenshaw said that her accounting of the incident concurred with what she knew of the autopsy report, which found that Brown had been shot from the front. “When [Brown] turned toward the cop was when he let off the most shots,” Crenshaw said.

The racist right believes that officer Wilson was justifiable in shooting an unarmed Brown. They seen the release of a video in which Brown shoved a convenience store worker. He was accused by the law of stealing a few Swisher Sweet cigars. He had marijuana traces in his autopsy report. Some of his social networking profile pictures shows unflattering images of Brown. In the racist right's mind, this is enough for the law to lay six shots into him.

More rioting happened in Ferguson. Some in the media chasing for them ratings got hit with tear gas from the law and sometimes rocks from the protesters.

Embattled governor Jay Nixon (D-MO) ordered the national guard to handle situation after pleas by Missouri Highway Patrol chief Ron Johnson failed. President Barack Obama has ordered Attorney General Eric Holder to travel to Ferguson.

#IfTheyGunnedMeDown

Black America is getting frustrated with the junk food media focusing on the perception of victims of gun shootings. Black men are often stereotyped by the racist right agitators, Loserville and those word of mouths.

They often look into the social networks of a Black male who became a victim of a gun shooting. They love to pull the offensive pictures to paint the victim as the aggressor and the killing would be rendered justifiable.

This campaign called #IfTheyGunnedMeDown is a meme on the social networks. Young Black people are posting their professional and not so professional pictures to prove a point. If they were killed today, how would the junk food media look at them?

You may see some of the pictures that describe the popularity of some and those who are often perceived as something their not.

#MikeBrown shooting spurs #IfTheyGunnedMeDown Twitter protest on black stereotypes. http://t.co/5esJtwnGYJ pic.twitter.com/vdiVAJysxZ
— Dorothy Roberts (@DorothyERoberts) August 13, 2014

Which photo would they use of you? #iftheygunnedmedown http://t.co/4VQcleBtsY via @createdbyerica & @M_Figueroa06
— Upworthy (@Upworthy) August 18, 2014

#IfTheyGunnedMeDown which picture would they use? pic.twitter.com/d5cvseOlIu
— Jared Polis (@jaredpolis) August 16, 2014

Police killing of unarmed teen sparks #IfTheyGunnedMeDown movement http://t.co/FKBi9MIt94 pic.twitter.com/rS1RK4qHLT
— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) August 12, 2014

This #IfTheyGunnedMeDown campaign is a brilliant and powerful use of social media http://t.co/CBZPKOHRSS
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) August 12, 2014

Black America has had enough of the negativity from those in the junk food media. The agitators don't seem to care about the fact that for every gun shooting victim, a person's life is lost. A family is destroyed and our inept Congress continues to pocket millions of dollars from the gun lobbying groups.

Even Colorado politico Jared Polis (D-CO) got into the hashtag campaign.

If this doesn't wake up America, I don't know what would?

Six Shots To The Head...

The autopsy has once again got the junk food media talking. The governor calls upon the national guard after protesters and looters violated the curfew.

Despite empathy from Governor Jay Nixon (D-MO) and Missouri Highway Patrol lead Ron Johnson, the knotheads once again riot and loot in Ferguson. The governor calls upon the national guard to restore order after a curfew warning was ignored.

The law had no choice but to use smoke and tear gas to get rid of the crowds.

The major impact to this was the autopsy of unarmed teen Michael Brown.

Brown's death was six shots. Two of them shots went right into the head of the teen.

Brown was also shot four times in the right arm and that all the bullets were fired into his front. The newspaper said the bullets did not appear to have come from very close range because there was no gunpowder on his body.

That determination could change if there were residue on Brown's clothing, which Baden did not examine, the newspaper said.

Some of the bullets entered and exited Brown several times, the newspaper said, including one that caused at least five wounds. It said one shattered his right eye, went through his face, left through his jaw and re-entered his collarbone. The last two shots in the head would have stopped him in his tracks and were likely the last fired, the Times said.

Baden told the New York Times that Brown would not have survived even if he had been taken to a hospital immediately.

Baden did not return a message left by The Associated Press earlier Sunday.

The photo of the officer involved in the shooting of Michael Brown.

Earlier Sunday, Attorney General Eric Holder ordered a federal medical examiner to perform another autopsy on Brown, citing the "extraordinary circumstances" surrounding his death and a request by Brown's family.

Half of the time, you got an agitator probably getting his name wrong. Then of course, you hear the liberal and libertarian agitators going after the federal and state governments for allowing military weapons in getting rid of the unruly crowds.

Me and S. Baldwin continue to cover this controversy. This is a given wedge issue. The controversy has gotten the White liberals being "sympathetic" towards the protesters. The racist right agitators such as their native son continue their baseless smears. The agitators of the racist right has went to town on the "suspected" robbery of smokes.

J. Cole went to the studio and recorded a song in tribute to the teen.

Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson, a certified Black extremist has went as far to call Brown's death a justifiable cause because of his social networking profile.

The Klan has rallied for support of the officer. Darren Wilson, who is in hiding due to death threats doesn't need this type of headache.

The racist right claims that a few seconds of comments from other bystanders tells that Brown charged at an officer. Again an unarmed person would try to attack an officer. Usually in this type of response would require the law to use stun guns.

Again this once again became another divisive moment in which the left and the right, Black and White, Democrat and Republican, smart and stupid choose their corners.

Expect more of this in the months up to the Midterm Election.

DOJ Told Ferg Cops That The Michael Brown "Robbery" Video Will Spark Riots!

The cops wanted to prove a point. They've thought wrong. 

Yeah, a video will shed light into what actually happened that afternoon Michael Brown was shot and killed by the Ferguson police. Officer Darren Wilson confronted Brown and his friend near a housing project.

The officer got into a confrontation with Brown and it led to the shooting. The officer is on leave pending investigation. He is also in fear of his life after the incident.

The Missouri governor of the state Jay Nixon ordered a curfew for portions of St. Louis County.

The embattled Democratic politico has gotten a hard lesson in reality. His constituents are pissed off at the way this issue was handled.

Jay Nixon, the embattled Democratic governor greets Missouri State Patrol lead Ron Johnson. Johnson is putting a lil' old school parenting and preaching. He is in charge of maintain control in Ferguson.

The Ferguson police would say that Brown was a suspect in the robbery of a few Swisher Sweets. He got into the face of the QuikStop clerk and pushed him.

That right there has gotten the racist right to attack his character. The junk food media is running it in loops.

The family is totally outraged over the release. They claim that this attempt to shame the victim is pathetic and they demand that the law tell the truth about the confrontation.

The confrontation has two accounts. The police account and the witnesses.

The cops say that he put up a fight and tried to reach for the officer's service gun. The witnesses say that there was a scuffle but it only involved the officer and his gun. The teen raised his arms up and the officer still fired upon him. The officer's vehicle doesn't have a dash camera.

The Department of Justice and the FBI are urging the residents to not cause more chaos. They warned the residents that looting and rioting is not going to be tolerated and prosecution is going to happen to those involved.

Michael Brown's mother Lesley McSpadden believe the junk food media is slandering their son's name.

The DOJ also warned that releasing the video could spark it. Unfortunately the reactionary insurgency and racist right will also be agitated as well.

Rioting and looting continued despite police warnings. The protesters ignored the warnings and the police went back to bringing out the military style vehicles.

We are watching the developments as they continue. A sad day in America. The racist right, the rioting and the unjustifiable outrage has made me look at America in a totally different light.

Governor Oops Got Indicted!

Governor Oops is leaving Texas with a scandal. 

I'm Rick Perry, you won't catch me..
I'm from Texas, tee hee hee...
I'm the gubner, you better believe me...
I'm the guy, you liberals won't catch me...
I done what's right for my fellow Texans...
I will beat the liberals, tee hee hee...

Governor Oops got served his papers this week. He was indicted on two felonies by a Texas district attorney for gross misuse of power.

Kind of ironic, that the Republican-controlled House of Representatives is planning on suing the president over his use of executive orders. But in the state of Texas, the Democrats are getting Perry on the use of his powers after the latest botchery of the Texas congressional district map. Not to mention a strong arm move that would have force a political rival off a certain board.

With that said, it could not swing in the 2014 governor's race.

Insurgency backed Greg Abbot is leading against Wendy Davis.

Davis' powers are fading and it's going to be extremely tough to beat a wheelchair bound Abbot. The Texan culture is too conservative and they're spooked by the thousands of undocumented children crossing the border.

Oops was indicted by a grand jury on felony charges for abuse of power. He was accused of coercing a Democratic District Attorney who had been convicted of drunk driving to resign by threatening to veto funding for state public corruption prosecutors.

Oops became governor after George W. Bush left the term to be the 43rd President of The United States.

Oops ran for the Republican nomination in 2012. At first, he was inspiring the insurgency, but fizzled out after a handful of bumbling mistakes. He is thinking about another run for failure.

Lessons learned in Cincinnati in 2001 may help in Ferguson, future | Local News - WLWT Home

Lessons learned in Cincinnati in 2001 may help in Ferguson, future | Local News - WLWT Home

WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE, WHAT HAPPENED MINUTES OR SECOND BEFORE THAT? OBVIOUSLY THERE IS STILL PLENTY OF ANGER TONIGHT. THE MISSOURI STATE POLICE CAPTAIN NOW HANDLING SECURITY IN FERGUSON, AVERAGE ACKNOWLEDGING TODAY THAT CHANGES HAVE TO BE MADE. THERE ARE BIGGER THINGS THAT HAVE TO HAPPEN AFTER THIS IS OVER. THERE ARE THINGS THAT HAVE TO HAPPEN AFTER THIS IS OVER TO MAKE US ALL BETTER AND THEY NEED TO CONTINUE TO HAPPEN, AND TRAINING, DIVERSITY, HAVING MORE MINORITY OFFICERS IN OUR COMMUNITIES. AS PART OF THOSE CHANGES IT'S GOING TO INCLUDE LESSONS LEARNED FROM CINCINNATI. WLWT'S NEWS 5 ANDREW SETTERS SHOWING HOW OUR CURRENT AND FORMER POLICE CHIEF ARE GETTING INVOLVED. AN UNARMED BLACK MAN WAS SHOT AND KILLED IN FERGUSON, MISSOURI, POLICE HAVE BEEN SLOW TO RELEASE INFORMATION AND ANGER HAS GROWN INTO RIOTS. THERE ARE SIMILARITIES TO WHAT HAPPENED HERE IN 2001. WE DIDN'T TOMORROW FORWARD WITH INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT HAD HAPPENED, AND AT SOME POINT TIME HAD PASSED, SO MUCH TIME HAD PASSED THAT IT REALLY DIDN'T MATTER ANY MORE WHAT WE HAD TO SAY BECAUSE THERE WAS SUCH A DEGREE OF SUSPICION AND A LACK OF TRUST IN OUR AGENCY. THAT IS SOMETHING WE HAD TO DIG OURSELVES OUT OF A HOLE WITH. TOM STRIKER LED THE CITY THROUGH THE RIOTS AND THE RECOVERY WHICH INCLUDED THE INVOLVEMENT IN THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT IN A COLLABORATIVE AGREEMENT TO MAKE REFORMS MUCH. THE BIGGEST LESSONS LEARNED RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE POLICE AND THE COMMUNITY ARE IMPORTANT. WHEN YOU HAVE THE GOOD RELATIONSHIPS AND THE CRITICAL INCIDENTS OCCUR YOU CAN COME TOGETHER, YOU CAN HELP EACH OTHER RESOLVE THESE ISSUES AND YOU CAN KEEP PEACE AND CALM IN THE CITY. THE CHIEF THEN AND THE CHIEF NOW HAVE BOTH BEEN ON CNN IN THE PAST 24 HOURS TO TALK ABOUT THE CINCINNATI EXAMPLE. AND I DO THINK THAT WE WOULD HAVE HANDLED THIS SITUATION A LITTLE DIFFERENTLY BECAUSE WE BELIEVE IN TRUTH TELLING AND BEING TRANSPARENT WITH OUR COMMUNITY HERE IN CINCINNATI. YOU CAN SEE THE DIFFERENCE IN THE POLICE INVOLVED SHOOTING JUST LAST WEEK. CHIEF BLACKWELL WAS ON THE SCENE OVERNIGHT SHARING INFORMATION. HOURS LATER HE HELD A NEWS CONFERENCE, SHARED VIDEO AND SPOKE AT LENGTH. BLACKWELL INHERITED A DEPARTMENT THAT HAD LEARNED HARD LESSONS. I THINK THE PUBLIC HAS A RIGHT TO KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON, AND THE ONLY WAY THAT YOU BUILD COLLABORATION IS THROUGH TRUST AND THROUGH RELATIONSHIP, AND IT HAS TO BE AUTHENTIC. STRIKER'S ADVICE FOR LEADERS IN FERGUSON FACE THE COMMUNITY'S CRITICISM, LISTEN AND LEARN. AT SOME POINT THEY WILL HAVE TO EMBRACE THIS CRITICISM, EMBRACE THIS ANGER AND FRUSTRATION AS A NEW FORM OF ENERGY TO HELP THINGS GET BETTER, AND THAT'S THE ONLY WAY IT CAN BE DONE. ANDREW SETTERS, WLWT NEWS 5. BY THE WAY A DELEGATION FROM

Read more: http://www.wlwt.com/news/lessons-learned-in-cincinnati-in-2001-may-help-in-ferguson-future/27508396#ixzz3AaWwr9hl

Mall Cop Maces Unarmed Black Man!

You sprayed the wrong guy, says protesters.

See this nonsense happens in the country. Are you seeing this for yourself?

I am guessing that Black men are open targets. The law, that asshole in Florida, the racist right and the junk food media already assumes that Black men are acting suspiciously. When we are given the right to be armed, the police, the liberal agitators, and Black civil right leaders want us to give up our arms. We can't win in this society. Regardless of having the first Black president, this country is so fucked up. His opposition knew that once he gotten in, they could rally more agitation towards suburbia. Those in suburbia watch the junk food media constantly label Blacks as "criminals" and not "victims".

They done it to Trayvon Martin, Jordan Davis, Michael Brown, John Crawford II, and Renisha McBride.

Each victim was killed either by a White vigilante or law enforcement.

Here's a story about a mall cop pepper spraying a Black man after he and a heckler were involved in a shouting match. As the Black man leaves the situation, the mall cops goes after him and not the heckler.

Westlake security pepper spray & arrest innocent bystander after he's harassed by pro Israel supporter during protest pic.twitter.com/SCf6KRpQ5V
— Alex Garland (@AGarlandPhoto) August 9, 2014

Here's a man who wasn't doing anything being arrested by mall cops after a racist pro-Israeli heckler mocked him and others at the pro-Palestine protest rally.

The incident occurred Saturday in front of the Starbucks at Westlake Center, near a pro-Palestinian rally. Much of what happened has been captured in still photographs and video.

Raymond Wilford, 25, was walking downtown when he passed a man who, according to onlookers, had been heckling demonstrators, flipping a middle finger at them, and also had removed his shirt.

Wilford told The Seattle Times that as he passed by the man, he felt some spray from the man’s mouth. Wilford turned toward the man and cocked his fist. After he and the other man squared off, fists raised, a uniformed security guard appeared.

In photos posted by Alex Garland at The Dignity Virus, a blog that features protest images, the guard can be seen moments later using pepper spray. While the heckler did not seem to be struck, Wilford was sprayed directly in the face.

According to a police report, the guard said he used the spray because Wilford balled his fists and “took an aggressive step towards him.”

Wilford said in an interview with The Seattle Times that he stepped forward, amid shouting, because he was trying to explain his side of the story, but the mall guard yelled “Stop!” and sprayed him.

“I thought he (the guard) was the helper, that’s why I approached him. But he thought I was the threat,” Wilford said Monday.

Wilford said he thinks he was misperceived as the aggressor because he’s black.



Afterward, the heckler walked away and a YouTube video shows that the guard held and eventually handcuffed Wilford, about the time police showed up. A Seattle police officer shouted at a few of the onlookers to stay back as the guard escorted Wilford into Westlake Mall. Demonstrators shouted, “You pepper-sprayed the wrong guy” and similar comments.

“We will be looking at all parties involved,” police spokesman Drew Fowler said Friday.

Wilford recalled that after being handcuffed Saturday, he sat in a room, was given baby shampoo to wash his face, then was released after about 25 minutes. Wilford said the guard said he was sorry, and a Seattle police officer instructed mall security to release him.

He said Monday he would like a formal apology.

Wilford explained why he didn’t follow through with a punch at the heckler: “I saw the cameras. I’m not trying to catch any charges. Angry black guy, beating up a white guy, blah-blah.”

One question for Seattle police is the guard’s jurisdiction.

Westlake Park south of Pine Street is city-owned, as are downtown sidewalks. The plaza immediately in front of the mall is private, though police sometimes congregate there. Did the altercation happen on public or private property, did the mall guard have authority, and does it matter? Police will consider that angle, Fowler said.

The incident is being analyzed by Valor Security Services, Westlake’s security contractor, as are all use-of-force situations involving its guards, said Scott Born, vice president. He said safety of mall visitors is the top priority.

“After breaking up a fight and giving repeated warnings for the individual to calm down, measures were taken and immediately following Seattle police arrived on site to assist. Please know these actions are never done without warning and careful consideration. It is always our goal to try to resolve all situations as peacefully as possible,” Valor Security said in a statement.