The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain, Sr.
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John C Abercrombie
On November 19, 2011, we watched the news about Kenneth Chamberlain, Sr. A 68 year old retired United States Marine. After serving in the Marine Corp, he worked for the Westchester County New York Department of Corrections for 20 years. He was shot to death after a call triggered by his LifeAid medical alert necklace was inadvertently triggered.
White Plains New York police were dispatched after he failed to respond to the inadvertent triggering of his necklace and failing to respond to a call made by the alarm company to check on his condition. The call was for Medical Assistance. Please note that this is NOT a reflection on the medical alert, it is 100% on the White Plains, New York Police Department.
Chamberlain objected to allowing police into his house and it seems that he was frightened about treatment that he would receive from the police. Word on the street is that there was a White Plains unit on the streets that was not friendly to people of color.
The request for medical assistance was cancelled by the Alarm system after they contacted Chamberlain and several of his relatives. Yet the police insisted on entry and broke down his steel door and found him standing shirtless in boxer shorts and not advancing on them. They shot him at least twice with tasers, shot him 4 times with bean bags (less than lethal) shotguns before murdering him in his own apartment.
In addition, he had a relative that lived in the building and responded to the scene, identifying herself and pleading to help confirm that he was indeed ok. She was turned away as were several other relatives. See the videos that accompany this post. Continue to scroll down.
While the call was for medical assistance and was cancelled by the alarm company, the police spent over an hour breaking down the door. It is also possible that Kenneth Chamberlain was suffering from mental illness which is not a crime.
Chamberlain is heard on recordings of the case as it is unfolding calling attention that he is going to be killed by the police, which was prophetic. The police dismissed the offers of help from the Niece of Chamberlain and even his son. It seems as if they were on a mission to annihilate him.
The audio recording which has been preserved shows police cursing and calling Chamberlain the N-word which was totally uncalled for and shows what is permitted by the White Plains police
The shooting was the topic of the film “The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain.” Morgan Freeman the renowned actor and director has made a film about the life of, including the tragedy of being a Black man in America. This is covered in the videos below. Notice, the content while not graphic is intense.
It is actions like this that make people of color suspicious of law enforcement officers. Even when it is apparent that they are overreacting, they are time and time again cleared of any wrongdoing by people that are not treated in this way. In fact, they don’t even see this type of action taken in their neighborhood and they are prone to take the word of police over fact no matter how compelling.
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Ten years ago in White Plains, New York, Kenneth Chamberlain — a 68-year-old Black veteran with a history of mental illness — accidentally set off his medical alert device. As The New York Times reports, police were dispatched to his home for a welfare check. Ninety minutes later, after he had been taunted with racial slurs and subdued by both a taser weapon and beanbag rounds, Chamberlain was shot and killed. Morgan Freeman, Academy Award winning actor and an executive producer of ‘The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain,’ joins Joy Reid to discuss this new film that captures these tragic events. Joy is also joined by Frankie Faison, the actor portraying Kenneth Chamberlain, and Chamberlain’s son, Kenneth Chamberlain, Jr.
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