New Orleans Police Officer Desmond Pratt's brutalized wife, Jonie & her mother-in-law, Dulcie Scott.Here we go again. Another story of police brutality but this story has a twist. The victim of this savage beating is non other than a police officers own wife but the story is even more twisted and sick because not only was the victim an officer's wife (and by the way her sister is a police officer too) but the savagetry came by the hands of fellow white police officers!
What?!? You heard me! This comes straight off the AP Newswire. File this one under another: Black Fist 'Round The Nation Special Report.
NOPD Faces New Brutality Claim After White Officers Beat Black Cops's Wife By Mary Foster, Associated Press Thursday April 6, 2006.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - New Orleans' police department, its image already suffering in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, is investigating new allegations of brutality: claims that three white officers beat up the wife of a black officer this week.
The probe comes less than a week after two former officers--both white--were indicted on felonies in the French Quarter beating of a black retired teacher, violence caught by an Associated Press news crew covering the storm's aftermath in October. Two FBI agents seen helping to restrain the man were cleared of wrongdoing Wednesday, the bureau said.
On Wednesday, Jonie Pratt had a black eye, a swollen forehead and a brace on her fractured left wrist. Pratt's mother-in-law, Dulcie Scott, said the injuries were inflicted after police pulled Pratt over, claiming she ran a stop sign.
Pratt is the wife of Desmond Pratt, a 10-year veteran of the police department, and sister of officer Nancy Parker, a three-year member of the force.
"It's my understanding that one of the officers spoke the word 'black' during the incident," said Lt. Simon Hargrove, president of the Black Organization of Police. "Why would a person do that if race wasn't involved?"
The police department said in a statement Wednesday that it is investigating and that the officers have been reassigned in the meantime. Their names were not released.
The local NAACP is calling for a federal investigation. "We have a problem with this kind of thing that went back before Katrina," said Danatus King, president of the New Orleans chapter.
The FBI said it is conducting a preliminary inquiry to determine whether the case warrants further investigations.
Pratt was charged with flight from an officer, battery, resisting arrest, running a stop sign and making an illegal turn.
The Pratt's refused to discuss the matter, but Scott said Pratt was returning from visiting her sick father in Baton Rouge early Tuesday when police said she ran a stop sign about two blocks from her house. The woman drove to her house in a middle-class area of the city before pulling over.
"I saw an officer pull Jonie out of her car by her hair," said Scott, who was baby-sitting her grandchildren at the couple's house. "He was swearing at her and pounding her into the car. I said, "Stop that, that's Officer Pratt's wife."
Scott said the officer twisted Pratt's arm behind her and sprayed her with mace in her face. She said that two more white officers arrived and that the three shoved the 5-foot-2 Pratt to the ground and knelt on her back, and an officer kicked her in the head.
The white officers refused to believe that Pratt, a schoolteacher on leave since Katrina, lived in the house she claimed was hers, Scott said. "It's a nice area, and I think they meant a black family wouldn't live there," Scott said.
Pratt was released from the handcuffs after several black officers showed up, Scott said. "It turned into this real black-white situation between police," Scott said. "All the white officers on one side, the black officers on the other."
In Katrina's aftermath, New Orleans police officers were accused of abandoning their post, stealing cars and looting stores.
--AP Story ends there--
Now a few thoughts from General Nikki X of The Black Fist:
What the F@#* is going on in New Orleans?!? White cops beating the hell outta fellow black cops' wife?!? An Elder black man (the retired schoolteacher who was beaten half to death in the French Quarter back in October 2005, as mentioned above) beaten half to death a couple of months ago by New Orleans pigs who claimed he was drunk and disorderly when the man proved he wasn't disorderly and proclaimed he hadn't had a drink in over 25 years with his family and friends all vouching to it! All caught on tape! Even the white news crew that filmed that savage beating were yelling while filming, "He didn't do anything, Hey man, he didn't even do anything!"
We hope & pray the Feds go to New Orleans ASAP and do a real investigation and bust some white police ass down there. Police Brutality is still running rampant throughout these United States of AmeriKKKa as it has in this city. White folks don't want to believe it's happening but are they suppose too? It's not happening to them or theirs. So black people need to stop worrying themselves sick over what the whiteman thinks and defend yourselves by any means necessary! We mean, on the real-- Self-Defense can and should be used on rouge, dogmatic, ungodly pigs whenever and wherever the life of the black man, the black woman & the black child is in jeopardy!!! Don't allow the whiteman to fool you black man/black woman. Shit, he uses "Self-defense" to protect & defend himself, his white woman and his white child. And let him even think about a pig raising up on him to enforce the law while he's under the influence of alcohol, meth, heroin, crack or coke...shiiitttt, it'll probably be the last time that particular pig raises up, Period!
Moral of the story: New Orleans Mayor, the blackman, Ray Nagan had better get his ass in gear and get some kind of control over his dogmatic police force while he's all over the place making heavy powerful statements that are all true then bitching up and getting scare when the whiteman says, "Boy we don't like you saying that!" Then he goes and apologizes for the comments he and every other "conscience black person on the planet know is the absolute truth! Get it together Ray, and get it together fast man!!!
The Black Fist Organization will continue to monitor this story and anything new we'll be bringing it straight to you. We wish Mrs. Jonie Pratt and her family all the best and a speedy recovery. Hoping she sues those damn pigs for millions upon millions of dollars along the way! It's due her.
We want to hear what you think about this story and Police Brutality in general. This is the fifth anniversary of the brutal murder by then Cincinnati police officer Stephen Roach of unarmed black teen Timothy Thomas. Roach, who didn't see a day in prison for that heinous murder is now a patrolling pig in the City of Evendale and The Black Fist wish him well in hell, the same hell he created for the family and friends of Bro. Tim Thomas when he shot him in the chest killing him in a dirty back alley in Over-The-Rhine on April 7, 2001!
This was another Black Fist "Round The Nation Special Report! Where we bring it to you the only way we know how, "Black Militant Style"! And remember here on The Black Fist Blog.....
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(Be Peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. -- Bro. Minister El-Hajj Malik-El Shabazz Malcolm X, 1963 & Brigadier General Nikki X, 2006.)