diff --git a/us_atrocities.md b/us_atrocities.md index 2c844cf..9d17e29 100644 --- a/us_atrocities.md +++ b/us_atrocities.md @@ -356,6 +356,7 @@ Notes : - In the modern day, [20,000 to 40,000 people die every year](http://obamacarefacts.com/facts-on-deaths-due-to-lack-of-health-insurance-in-us/) because of lack of universal health care or health insurance. On average, that's 300,000 over the last decade. [1](http://obamacarefacts.com/facts-on-deaths-due-to-lack-of-health-insurance-in-us/) --- - In February 2019, an [11 year old was arrested by police after refusing to say the pledge of allegiance.](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/02/florida-student-arrested-pledge-of-allegiance.amp) The teacher then asked “Why if it was so bad here he did not go to another place to live,” “They brought me here,” the boy replied. Polk County Public Schools spokesman Kyle Kennedy insisted the 11-year-old “was arrested after becoming disruptive and refusing to follow repeated instructions by school staff and law enforcement.” The sixth grader was then taken to a juvenile detention center, charged with disrupting a school function and resisting arrest without violence. +- In 2019, a Phoenix Arizona resident, Jim Stauffer, learned that the body of his deceased mother, Doris, who died in 2014, was one of [many bodies sold to the US army used for "blast testing".](https://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoenix-metro/central-phoenix/valley-man-learns-moms-body-was-sold-for-blast-testing) He had checked "no" on the paperwork for medical tests involving explosions. “She was then supposedly strapped in a chair on some sort of apparatus, and a detonation took place underneath her to basically kind of get an idea of what the human body goes through when a vehicle is hit by an IED.” Stauffer is one of many plaintiffs named in the suit against [Biologic Resource Center and its owner Stephen Gore.](https://www.abc15.com/news/crime/fbi-shines-light-on-now-shut-down-human-chop-shop-in-phoenix) Gore pleaded guilty to running an illegal enterprise in 2015, but was sentenced to serve probation. - In January 2018 in Camden New Jersey, [a 33 year old police Detective Rafael Martinez Jr raped and impregnated a 15-year old girl.](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5645553/Former-New-Jersey-police-officer-33-given-five-years-probation.html). He negotiated a plea deal in which he only serves 5 months of probation, with no prison time. [1](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5645553/Former-New-Jersey-police-officer-33-given-five-years-probation.html) - On December 28th, 2017, Police in Wichita Kansas [murdered an innocent man, 28-year-old Andrew Finch](http://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article193294019.html) who was the recipient of "swatting" (where someone falsely reports an emergency to draw police to an address). The [bodycam footage](http://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article193294019.html) shows that the killing was entirely unjustified. The "swatter", [Tyler Rai Bariss](http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-tyler-barriss-swatting-20180106-story.html), has a long history of such pranks, [1](http://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article193294019.html),[2](http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-tyler-barriss-swatting-20180106-story.html) - On December 24th, 2017, Police officers [shot and killed an unarmed suspected car thief, Amanda lee jones, and a 6 year old boy, Kameron Prescott](http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/12/kameron-prescott-anger-police-bullet-kills-child-171224091628070.html), in Bexar County Texas. Kameron Prescott is the youngest and 957th person killed by US police in 2017. Bexar County Sheriff Salazar is quoted as saying, “Right now, what I’m dealing with is a tragic accident that led to the death of this young man.” Young man was used instead of 6 year old boy.[1](http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/12/kameron-prescott-anger-police-bullet-kills-child-171224091628070.html),[2](http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/six-year-old-shot-dead-accident-texas-kameron-prescott-a8127551.html)