On Wednesday September 26, 2012, Jamokie-Gyasi Vieux a 22 year old African-American student at Rochester, NY s Monroe red rock canyon motorcycle tours Community College, had just finshed a day of classes with his girlfriend Shavonte Barfield.
Perhaps what is most disturbing here is that even though Vieux was the victim of an overzealous, out of control wannabe cop security officer, he ended being charged with failure to stop for a stop sign, failure to yield right of way to an emergency vehicle, resisting arrest and assaulting a police officer.
I explained to her that since Gregory Buttman is a new Fairport, NY Police officer, the community, especially Fairport residents have a right to know what the Fairport Police has to say about this incident.
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Davy V. won the U.S. ACM Video Festival Award for his Documentary, "R.P.D. EXPOSED!" about the Rochester, New York Police Department and their long history of misconduct, corruption and unnecessary killings of unarmed innocent citizens.
"R.P.D. EXPOSED!" and Davy V.'s follow up, "R.P.D.: Badges of DISHONOR, CORRUPTION and MURDER!" were both screened at the National Hip Hop Political Convention at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey.
Davy V.'s work has been featured in publications such as THE SOURCE Hip Hop Magazine, URBAN AMERICA Magazine, The Ave. Magazine, Insider Magazine, La Voz Newspaper, Minority Reporter Newspaper, CNY LATINO Newspaper, DOWN Magazine, as well as on television news stations, and programs such as CNN and Inside Edition.
Dude, these half-stories of yours are doing more harm than good to the cause. This one has things that scream out for attention. Like why would a passer-by decide to run over and help a cop who was beating the crap out of somebody? That makes no sense at all, it just makes the story sound completely one-sided. It makes it impossible to judge if any wrongdoing actually happened. It would make more sense had the cop pulled the kid out, started beating on him, the kid began fighting back, and then a passer-by came over and helped out. But for some reason the part about the kid doing anything is missing.
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