The Post About Kenneka Jenkins

Kenneka, a 19 year old African American woman, was brutally murdered and raped. Her mother Tereasa Martin murder was contacted by her friends saying that they could not account for her whereabouts and that they were looking for her but they couldn’t find her. These accounts, reported by the mother, changed very often and there were often missing pieces to their stories. Martin went to the hotel and next morning and confronted hotel workers asking them to show her video footage of the night and asking them to help her look for her daughter.

They refused help or to lift a finger that did not help her in any way. They told her to report it to the police and file a missing person’s report. Then the police arrived at 3 or 4 p.m., mind you, her mother was at the hotel at 5am . They found her body in the freezer at the hotel. The police reported that she locked herself in the freezer, but it made no sense for her to lock herself in the freezer because the freezer doors were double steel doors. Even if she was drunk it would have been difficult to open those doors. Moreover, the freezer doors have an exit button which would have made it easy for someone to leave the freezer.

The story circling social media currently is that she was really murdered and raped by guys that join the party. There’s also a Facebook video filling around that may hold evidence to what happened that night. Her murder is a sign of how black women are the most disrespected race in America. What happened to her shows how the disappearance of black women and their murder is not met with the same ferocity and urgency that is usually met when it happens to white women.

The injustice that this young girl’s legacy is facing in this moment is reflective on what happens so often with black women. The misogyny that surrounds black women is a result of rape culture that makes men blame women who have been raped. The deeply rooted misogynoir in our society makes them blame your clothing and for being too sexual in Instagram photos. Also, women will turn around and say the same thing as a way to side with the same misogynoir that oppresses them as well. These statements are results of the rape culture prevalent in this society.

Moreover to the fact that many people believe that if she pick the right friends this would not have happened. Honestly, the only people who are at fault are the ones who raped this young girl. She did not deserve to die this way and she does not deserve to be forgotten. Her story must be heard because too many times this happens to young girls and it goes ignored. We must remember her name and her face so that people will never forget what happens to black women. We must teach our men to take care of and to protect black women.

The Post About The Chicago Police

The Chicago Police department have been under fire for quite some time. Maybe it's over the shooting of Laquan McDonald, a 17 year old teen who was shot 16 times in 13 seconds by police officer Jason Van Dyke after being seen that he was armed with a 3 inch knife.
For more on that story:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/17/us/laquan-mcdonald-video-records-comparison/

There have also been more killings by the Chicago Police Department. Quintonio LeGrier, 19, called police three times Dec. 26 to ask for help. During one of the calls, the dispatch operator hung up on the teen, who was later fatally shot by police. According to ABC News, audio of the 19-year-old's 911 calls made Dec. 26 were released late Monday by Chicago's Independent Police Review Authority, which is investigating both LeGrier's death and the death of his neighbor Bettie Jones. Jones, 55, was also shot and killed by police after she opened their apartment building door to let police in. Earlier that day, LeGrier called 911 asking that a police officer be sent to his address. The first call was made at 4:18 a.m., and the last call was made three minutes later.

"There's an emergency, can you send an officer?" LeGrier can be heard saying on one of the calls.

During one call, LeGrier didn't respond to the 911 operator's questions and the dispatcher hung up on the teen, ABC reports.

When the dispatcher asked the teen what was wrong, he responded, saying, "Someone is ruining my life."

ABC reports that LeGrier's father, Antonio LeGrier, called 911 at 4:24 a.m. and asked for an officer to be sent to the same address.

"My son has freaked out. I need an officer," Antonio LeGrier said on the call. "He's got a baseball bat in his hand right now."

accident and say that LeGrier was charging them when he was shot. According to autopsies by the Cook County medical examiner on both victims, LeGrier was shot six times and Jones, a mother of five, was shot once, ABC reports.

"Upon arrival, officers were confronted by a combative subject resulting in the discharging of the officer's weapon, fatally wounding two individuals," police said in a statement released shortly after the shooting.

But there is something more to the stories here. This post may not be related to LeGrier, but I felt it was essential to update you on what happened there. That story is important for the public to see. Now onto to the issue that I dearly wished to address.

Police dashcams. These devices were put into police vehicles in order to prevent instances like Laquan McDonald from happening. However, new evidence has risen to show why these events keep happening.

Police officers have been destroying their dashcams on purpose. Maintenance records reveal that Chicago police officers have been involved in routine destruction and sabotage of dashboard cameras and microphones. This troubling revelation sheds light on what happened the night of Oct. 20, 2014, when Officer Jason Van Dyke — who was recently released on bond after being charged with first-degree murder — shot and killed a 17-year-old black boy named Laquan McDonald. The incident was recorded by multiple police dash cameras, but many of them did not record audio, including Van Dyke's.

In Van Dyke's case, the reason for this is now clear: He'd intentionally made his camera not work. The 15-year veteran took the camera from his patrol car to the department's maintenance team in June 2014, three months after reporting it broken. Repairs were completed June 17. The next day, the camera was "suddenly" broken again. Then, on Oct. 8 — 12 days before Van Dyke killed McDonald — the maintenance team fixed it for a second time, citing "intentional damage" as the reason for its malfunction.

The night of Oct. 20, the same camera wasn't recording any audio. Investigators decided this was because the microphone hadn't been synced.

The camera's repeated breakdowns and failure to record sound appear to be part of a systematic issue in Chicago. Technicians have identified 90 cases between September 2014 and July 2015 where Chicago Police Department officers had actually hidden their dashcam mics in the glove compartment of their cars. While in 30 other instances, there was evidence that recording devices were "intentionally defeated" or not activated by police personnel, DNA Info reported.

Meanwhile, another audio recording — this time from a cellphone camera — played a key role in helping people understand the circumstances around 43-year-old Eric Garner's death in July 2014. "I can't breathe," Garner said, repeatedly, as police officers in Staten Island, New York, wrestled him to the ground and choked him to death.

Interim Chicago Police Supt. John Escalante responded to the revelations by formally reprimanding some officers, and by suspending others for up to three days. "To boil this down, the police department will not tolerate officers maliciously destructing equipment," police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi told DNA Info.

For more information

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/28/laquan-mcdonald-shooting-jason-van-dyke-dashcam-mic-destroyed-chicago-police