Hundreds of people hit the streets in Hartwell, Ga., on Saturday calling for justice.

The crowd marched Saturday morning in support of Jimmy Lee Blackwell. Blackwell lost his eye in a fight with a police officer Feb. 16.

“If someone’s 51 years old and intoxicated, there’s no reason you should beat him beyond recognition, first of all,” said Tariq Alexander, president of Ruff Riders Films.

The Jimmy Lee Blackwell Support Group is named for one man, but the organizers said it’s about the problems of many people. They said that what happened to Blackwell was just the straw that broke the camel’s back.

“I think it’s one of those things that’s been swept under the rug so long that people thought, ‘Hey, we can continue to sweep it under the rug,’” said Apostle Roderick Hughey, of the Jimmy Lee Blackwell Support Group. “But the rug has gotten so high off of the ground by the pile of the things that’s been swept up under it that you can’t hide it anymore.”

“Everybody feels like it’s wrong, regardless of what color you are,” one person said.

“Stop giving thugs a badge,” another person said.

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Ivan Green, 45, is suing TD Bank - formerly Commerce Bank - and Brookhaven Borough for $1 million after he was arrested and jailed in 2007. A bank manager had called police when he tried to make a large withdrawal from his account.”Everything they did to me was unwarranted, unnecessary and unprovoked. If it was not for my skin complexion, I don’t think they would have treated me the way they did,” said Green, who is black.

In March 2007, Green and his wife refinanced their home and received about $38,000. They planned to put $26,500 into their checking account and use $11,500 to pay American Express and other creditors.

But when Green picked up the checks, he took the sealed envelope to a Commerce Bank branch in Delaware and mistakenly deposited everything into the checking account, even though some of the checks were made out to their creditors, according to Green’s attorney, Gerard Schrom. The entire $38,000 cleared nonetheless.

“All this money is his,” Schrom said. “He didn’t find this money on the street.”

When Green tried to withdraw $30,000 at a Brookhaven branch a couple days later, however, the bank manager called police, and he was arrested on theft charges. The charges were dismissed, but he lost his job as a result of the incident. Full Story

Bernie Madoff lost billions of dollars that didn’t belong to him in all kinds of investment scams and hasn’t spent 1 minute of his life in jail and most likely never will.  This victim of banker’s hubris in Delaware should be suing for $10  million, not $1 million.  We’re mad as hell, and we’re not gonna take it anymore! 

Police say four women were arrested Thursday night for flashing their breasts, and four other customers were arrested after a fight broke out. A police spokesman says undercover officers were at The Barn with the owner’s knowledge. Bright yellow signs were posted around the bar warning that police officers would be present and that anyone exposing themselves could face arrest.

One of the women arrested said she felt set up because a disc jockey and one of the undercover officers were encouraging women to expose themselves. Police say this isn’t true. Full Story

Wow, gutsy police work guys.

Total set up. Everybody and their mother knows that Girls Gone Wild encourages young women to flash their thingies.  Drinks were flowing, music was blaring, and the ladies got framed pure and simple. 

 These departments obviously have more officers with bloated salaries than real crimes being committed. Wouldn’t taxpayers rather put money in tourism promotion, job training or social services instead of these ridiculous do nothing departments and their witch hunts?  The U.S.  has 5% of the world population and 25% of the worlds prisoners, and it is because of this kind of overzealous, unreasoned approach to law enforcement.