‘Quit faking': Police ignored Native American woman’s pleas for help before she died in jail
Source: Raw Story
‘Quit faking': Police ignored Native American woman’s pleas for help before she died in jail
David Ferguson
28 Jul 2015 at 13:30 ET
The deaths in police custody of women like Sandra Bland and Rekia Boyd have drawn national attention to the potentially lethal threats posed to women of color by racist police.
On Tuesday, Indian Country Today reporter Sarah Sunshine Manning wrote about the July 6 death of a 24-year-old Lakota woman named Sarah Lee Circle Bear of Clairmont, South Dakota.
Circle Bear was jailed on a bond violation at the Brown County Jail in Aberdeen. On Sunday, July 6, she was found unresponsive in a holding cell.
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Witnesses said that when Circle Bear was transferred to the holding cell, she told guards that she was in excruciating pain. Jail personnel reportedly told her to “quit faking” and “knock it off” before lifting her partway off the floor and dragging her to the cell where she was later found unconscious.
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/quit-faking-police-ignored-native-american-womans-pleas-for-help-before-she-died-in-jail/
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I think this is another's example of prejudice against minorities and women although women in general are not considered a minority.
I'm sure a lot of D'ers recall a Republican Congressman, Bill Janklow, discussed here years ago, who has been charged with raping a young South Dakota woman, and never faced justice for it.
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Jacinta Eagle Deer
In 1974, a month before the election for state attorney general for which Janklow was a candidate, Jacinta Eagle Deer filed a petition through her attorney Larry Leventhal and tribal advocate Dennis Banks to disbar Janklow to keep him from practicing in tribal court. According to Banks, in early 1967 Jacinta Eagle Deer, then a 15-year-old Lakota schoolgirl at the Rosebud Boarding School on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, reported to her school principal that Janklow, for whom she was working as a babysitter, had raped her on January 13. He was said to be her legal guardian.[7]
The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), responsible for law enforcement on the reservation at the time, allegedly sent the police investigation case file of the rape (for which it had custody) to its Aberdeen, South Dakota office to keep it away from the Rosebud Sioux Tribal Court.[8]
Judge Mario Gonzalez of the Rosebud Indian Reservation tribal court granted Eagle Deer's petition to disbar Janklow from practicing law on the Rosebud Reservation. At the request of Eagle Deer's attorneys, the tribal court "issued a misdemeanor arrest warrant for Janklow based on sworn testimony on Eagle Deer's behalf (since it was generally believed at the time that tribal courts had jurisdiction over non-Indians)", but no arrest was made.[8] Janklow denied all allegations connected with the rape case, and no criminal charges were filed.
In 1975, Janklow was investigated by the FBI before being nominated as a candidate for appointment to the board of the Legal Services Corporation. The White House Counsel passed on its recommendation to the Senate Judiciary Committee (which would vote on the nomination), saying its investigation of the rape case concluded there was insufficient evidence.[9]
More:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Janklow
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South Dakota has a horrendous history of monstrous racial hatred, contempt, and abuse of original people living within the area. Apparently it seems to be fairly well white-washed, as so many US European-descended people don't know about it.
Which executive on high has given the order to police to kill POC? This is a planned epidemic.
KKKiller-KKKops.
Despicable scum. 
These assholes should be personally liable.
