NYPD Illegally Raids House of Man They Brutalized For Throwing Gay Pride Party, Days Before Court Date (Please Read & Reblog)
A gay Brooklyn man is being targeted and harassed by the NYPD after filing a lawsuit against the officers who raided his home without a warrant and beat him unconscious.
It was early Sunday morning and Jabbar Campbell was hosting a gay pride party when two officers appeared at his house responding to a noise complaint. The officers told the party goers, some who were dressed in drag, to keep it down and left soon after.
10 minutes later, another group of police officers appeared. This time they tried to gain access to the building and began banging on the door with their flashlights.
One officer reached for the building’s surveillance camera (bottom gif.) and turned it towards the wall, blocking the view.
“I noticed them turning the security camera and I got scared,” Cambell said, according to the New York Post.
Campbell opened the door after a few moments only to be ‘bum-rushed’ by the cop. Two officers put Campbell in a shoulder lock while “5 to 7” cops beat him with their fists, flashlights and batons yelling “fag”, “homo” and “asshole” at him until he lost consciousness.
“They said, ‘Stop resisting arrest.’ I said, ‘I am not resisting.’”
But the cops beat him up anyway, he said.
“I blacked out. I was concerned for my life,” said Campbell.
The NYPD then arrested Jabbar and questioned the party goers who witnessed the beating, asking them if they were engaging in “gay orgies” and “screwing each other.” They told the officers they weren’t and they also denied that Campbell was resisting.
Police charged Jabbar with resisting arrest and possession of drugs, allegations that Campbell insists are lies, which must be so because the police later dropped the drug charges after the reported on the story.
The NYPD transported Campbell to Kings County Hospital where he received 9 stitches and was diagnosed with a concussion.
Since then, Campbell filed suit against police, but said more men armed wearing police jackets broke into his home without a warrant and their badges hidden from view just days before his court date. They harassed the guests who were at Jabbar’s house and wouldn’t give their names.
The men in blue allegedly asked if his security cameras were operational.
“I don’t know what they’re looking for, or if they were going to plant something,” Campbell said.
Campbell’s attorney said what happened to his client was a violation of the Fourth Amendment – illegal search and seizure. The NYPD’s Internal Affairs is investigating.
Campbell said he plans to sue the police department and at least nine officers for severe personal injuries.
I was able to get an interview with Jabbar Campbell who admitted to me that he believes the raid was intended to scare and frame him :
Anarcho-Queer: Before your attack, the officers blocked the view of a surveillance camera in front of your building by turning it towards the wall. Taking this into regard, do you believe your attack was premeditated?
Jabbar Campbell: Absolutely, the cops turning the camera, which would have been the best witness if not tampered with, shows ill intent.
AQ: During the attack, the NYPD yelled homophobic slurs. In your opinion, was the raid was motivated by hate against queer people and/or people of color?
JC: I strongly believe they (Cops) were targeting homosexuals. They were trying to portray me as some sort of disorderly, arm-flailing, drug influenced crazy homosexual. I also believe that they (Cops) didn’t expect so much brains inside of a dark skinned man in that neighborhood.
AQ: How many officers were involved in your attack?
JC: About 5-7 cops were beating me, approximately 20+ officers reported to the scene.
AQ: What weapons did the officers use to brutalize you?
JC: Fists, billy clubs, flash lights and things of such nature.
AQ: What physical injuries were sustained?
JC: Multiple injuries to my head, face, neck and back just to name a few.
AQ: After you filed a lawsuit against the NYPD, three police officers raided your home without a warrant and illegally detained your guests. Was this to intimidate you? If so, what message do you think they trying to send?
JC: I definitely think this it was an intimidation tactic and also a plot to frame me just to cover up their crimes. I think the message was that they don’t want people standing up to them.
AQ: What happened during the second raid?
JC: They broke in my home, searched my home and search my friends and colleagues taking their IDs and writing their names down. They had their badges turned around and would [not] give their names.
AQ: Are the officers who brutalized you still on the job?
JC: Yes, however, they are being investigated by IAB (internal affairs bureau) and the ADA.
not safe even in our own homes. ACAB
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Create internet feminism: After selecting the appropriate pun-title and layout for your wordpress page, scour the front page of the New York Times (if you’re feeling adventurous, take a story from beneath the fold!) for any story and cobble together a few paragraphs of finger-wagging ‘feminist’ analysis about it. You’ll remember this assignment from every class you ever took in WGS here at Small Midwest/Northeast Liberal Arts College.
Next, round out your blog by finding other like-minded feminist bloggers and linking their stories on your blog along with a hearty ‘you go girl!’ Now you’ve consolidated a fan base! And you and your circle of friends are an echo chamber of mutual support!
Of course, having the same four insights about the daily news can get old after a year or two, so supplement your serious blogging with feminist analyses of your daily life. You’re not just single, you’re feministly single! And you’re not just in a relationship, you and your partner are in a feminist relationship! Don’t want kids? That’s totally feminist! Having your first child? Even more feminist! Indeed, everything you decide to do as a holder of a B.A. in WGS is somehow feminist! So slut-run, don’t slut-walk to fill your blog with the details of your feminist personal life.
By now you’ve surely produced enough writing to polish a five page essay into a great contribution to the feminist anthology your friends at the by women, for women publishing house are cobbling together with elmer’s glue and an old copy of the National Geographic. With a few of these sputtering essays about something under your belt, you’ll be more than ready for your own book.
Don’t neglect your web presence, though! And don’t leave behind your commitment to intellectual and emotional growth. Remember all those hysterical Black and brown women who occasionally peopled the comments section of your blog? They have their own blogs full of insights for you to cut and paste into yours! And with that modest advance supplementing the income from your trust fund, you’re plenty ready to lay down the law about how feminism is not only still relevant, but also sexy, fun, and cool! (Just like you!)
Sure, there’ll be detractors along the way. But with your degree in WGS from SM/NLAC and your white skin, you’ll always have at least one sociopath white medievalist in Pasadena on your side. If you can weather the storms of internet and print publishing, you’ll be well on your way to a new stage in your e-feminist career: riding the wave of facile Obama-era progressivism straight to a skype session on MSNBC.
That’s right, jessicamanda, you’re a media personality now! Remember that echo chamber of mealy-mouthed and soft-minded white women from earlier? You’re all consultantsnow! Thanks to your degree in Women’s and Gender Studies and your white skins, you’ve created an environment in which the longest-running feminist monthly magazine in the country still doesn’t know how to talk about survivors of intimate-partner violence!
Under your stewardship, the machinery of white feminism will never run out of the delicious suffering of non-white women on which it feeds. After all, you can never go hungry when you’re producing what you consume.
YOU GO, GIRL!
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this is the most ridiculous thing I’ve come across in a long time.
I understand the daily hardships that so many people have in a world ruled by white males.
I understand that sometimes this can make it feel as if all white males are the enemy (especially for those who fight for equality).
but posts like this need to stop.
you are not advancing anybodies rights.
you are not promoting anybodies equality.
this is not activism.
this is hate-mongering.
Thanks for the contribution :)
congratulations, sexism is now over. You have beaten the evil whites. You win!
Fuck. These. People.
I’ve lost track, am I even allowed an opinion these days? Whatever. How about this radical idea: Let’s treat each other equally, and then we’ll all be equal? All this mindless mud-slinging achieves nothing and only serves to demonstrate how true objectives of those involved (notably NOT equality).
You guys are good at this! :)
this isnt okay and you need to fuckin stop.
Thanks!
it got better
I almost didn’t reblog this because I thought I might lose followers. I quickly realized that meant I needed to reblog this immediately.
Oh wow, these people. If you assume this applies to you, it applies to you.
You can’t create equality by focusing solely on the issues of one party. I am a white male and I don’t catcall. I don’t think of myself as superior. I try to be a good person. So please.
Focus on the individuals, not the group.
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