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Alexandria’s first African American police chief talks police reform, race relations
A former police department leader who has vast personal and professional experience with race relations spoke to WTOP about what’s needed to create systemic societal change and ways to revamp police
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From Fannie Lou Hamer To Breonna Taylor, Black Women Have Been Victims Of Police Violence For Decades
Breonna Taylor’s story is reminiscent of countless others, and reflects a long-standing pattern: For decades, Black women have been targets of police violence and
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Two Hawks officials stationed at the Serious Corruption Offences unit arrested for fraud | News24
Two Hawks officials, recently promoted to sergeants at the Serious Corruption Offences units in Pretoria and Ivory Park, have been arrested after allegedly defrauding the police by submitting fictitious accommodation invoices.
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Coki Point Shooting Victim in Serious Condition Friday Night
A man found shot multiple times by police officers responding to a call in the Coki Point area of St Thomas was in serious condition at the Schneider Regional Medical Center as of about 8 p.m. Friday.
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City to Pay $12M to Breonna Taylor's Family, Reform Police - Black Voice News
The city of Louisville, Ky. agreed to pay $12 million to the family of Breonna Taylor and reform police practices as part of a settlement announced Tuesday, months after Taylor's slaying by police thrust the Black woman's name to the forefront of a national reckoning on race. But Taylor's mother
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AG: All Barbadians 'have a stake' in fight against gun crime - Barbados Today
Attorney General Dale Marshall is calling on all Barbadians to join the fight against gun crime in Barbados. Marshall made the call in a statement on the killing of Sgt. Newton Lewis. “We all have a stake in this, and we all must do more. Join us in this fight against gun crime. If you
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#StayWoke The Eagle Newswire: Trumped In Tulsa, Statues And Images Of Oppression And Qualified Immunity | The Oklahoma Eagle
In the week before President Donald J. Trump’s kick-off rally in Tulsa, there was valid concern what the trip might mean for our
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Nigerians Got Their Abusive SARS Police Force Abolished - but Elation Soon Turned to Frustration
[The Conversation Africa] For a brief moment in October, it seemed that youthful protesters calling to "abolish" a police force had succeeded. After weeks of mass demonstrations against police brutality, the government agreed to disband a widely hated police unit.
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Murder charge upgraded in Floyd case, 3 other cops charged
By AMY FORLITI and STEVE KARNOWSKI MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Prosecutors are charging a Minneapolis police officer accused of pressing his knee against George Floyd’s neck with second-degree murder, and for the first time will level charges against three other officers at the scene, a newspaper reported
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Wesson, Martinez Call for Reforms to Replace Police Officers with Non-Law Enforcement Agencies For Non-Violent Calls
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Uganda: The Roots of Pre-Election Carnage By Uganda Security Forces
[The Conversation Africa] For two days in November 2020, Uganda witnessed some of the most violent riots in a decade. The riots were triggered by the arrest of opposition presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi, who is challenging the incumbent Yoweri Museveni in the February 14 2021
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Protests In White And Black, And The Different Response Of Law Enforcement
… Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, who teaches African-American Studies at Princeton University, said …
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‘That's Just Going to Anger People’: Atlanta Attorney Shares Commentary on Opening Week of Derek Chauvin Trial and the Defense's Strategy to Shift Blame
An emotional first week of testimony in the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin came to a close Friday. Chauvin is being tried
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Lawsuit Aims To Prove North Carolina Cop Framed Black Teen After False Arrest
The family is calling the incident a “modern day lynching.”
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Al Sharpton eulogizes white Arkansas teen shot by deputy
The Rev. Al Sharpton and attorneys for George Floyd’s family on Tuesday mourned a white Arkansas teenager fatally shot by... View Article The post Al Sharpton eulogizes white Arkansas teen shot by deputy appeared first on TheGrio.
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Kenya: Quivers Lounge Shooting Suspect to Appear in Court
[Nation] The man who shot two police officers and a woman at Quivers Lounge in Nairobi will be charged in court today after he surrendered to authorities yesterday.
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President Johnson seeks 10% MPD budget reduction in 2021 to be reallocated for vital community needs
A file was introduced with the purpose of directing the City of Milwaukee’s budget office to prepare a model 2021 police department budget showing a 10% reduction in
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Top Ugandan police officer fined over $13,000 for selling stolen car to his wife
The assistant commissioner of police and head of community policing department, Anatoli Muleterwa, unlawfully sold the vehicle stolen from Makerere University’s main library in 2008, where it had been parked for a paltry $267.50 (one million shillings), Daily Monitor
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CBC Introduces Legislation to Make Police More Accountable
The Congressional Black Caucus has introduced the Justice in Policing Act of 2020, legislation designed to make the nation’s police more accountable to the nation’s citizens, especially its Black citizens, in the wake of the brutal death of George
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City to pay millions to Breonna Taylor’s mom, reform police – Dallas Post Tribune
By DYLAN LOVAN LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Months after the police killing of Breonna Taylor thrust her name to the forefront of a national reckoning on race, the city of Louisville agreed to pay the Black woman’s family $12 million and reform police practices as part of a settlement announced
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Elijah McClain: Video of Fatal Police Beating Sparks Calls For Investigation
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Robert Fuller, man found hanging from tree in Palmdale, to be mourned at funeral service Tuesday - African American News Today - EIN News
Funeral services were held Tuesday in Littlerock for Robert Fuller, the 24-year-old Palmdale man whose body was found hanging from a tree in a park across the street from Palmdale City Hall.
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Colorado Police Officer Suspended After Posting ‘Kill Them All’ Aimed at Black Lives Matter Protesters
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Robert Fuller, man found hanging from tree in Palmdale, mourned at funeral service in Littlerock - African American News Today - EIN News
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Owner of Black-Owned BBQ Joint Killed By Louisville Officers Who Had Body Cameras Turned Off
Nationwide — David McAtee, a 53-year old African American entrepreneur who owned a BBQ restaurant in Louisville, KY, and reportedly often fed the police for free, was shot and killed by police officers who were trying to disperse a crowd that had gathered after the city’s curfew
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McBRIDE/CEDIEL: When It Comes to Crime, Politicians Should Not Fail Black Americans Again - The Washington Informer
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Minneapolis City Council announces plans to dismantle police department
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