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What do blacks say about the police? - African American News Today - EIN News
nearly three-quarters of surveyed African-Americans report themselves satisfied with or “dismantle” police departments, but black Americans haven’t received concrete, alternative to curb violence. Most African-Americans clearly desire police reform over
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Abolishing the police is about customer service, not to protect and serve
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Op-Ed: Derek Chauvin Murder Trial Highlights Cruel Irony in the Justice System • EBONY
Attorney Areva Martin breaks down how the argument presented Derek Chauvin's defense team attempts to undermine logic.
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Grammy Award-winner Dorinda Clark-Cole heads Clearwater Music Fest, June 12 –
Grammy Award-winning gospel artist and talk show host Evangelist Dorinda Clark-Cole will headline the Look Up! Clearwater Music Festival this Saturday, June 12 in Crest Lake Park. BY J.A. JONES, Staff Writer CLEARWATER - Look Up! Clearwater Music Festival is back for its fourth year this
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Police Accountability, Ban on Chokeholds, No-Knock Warrants Among List of Legislative Priorities Endorsed by Washington State BLM and Introduced This Session
When most people envision strides in the civil rights movement, Atlanta, Montgomery, Birmingham, Selma and other Southern cities come to mind. But the Pacific Northwest […]
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Rep. Marilyn Strickland Calls Out The Erasure Of Black Capitol Workers Impacted By Riot
The newly elected congresswoman also called for the arrest of everyone involved in Wednesday’s attack.
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Kenya: Mother Detained for Son's Murder in Kitengela
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) are holding a woman who reportedly tortured her son to death and later reported to the police that he had fallen off a sofa in an attempt to cover up her crime.
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Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office and Behavioral Health Department Collaborate to Create Crisis Assessment and Response Team
By Karen Stokes The Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office is partnering with the Milwaukee County Behavioral Health Department (BHD) to create an alternative to emergency detentions or arrests for individuals suffering from mental health issues. The partnership started with a series of conversations
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Check It Out: Banning the banned chokehold
Now, I’m going to use the racial profiling ban as a starting point to sympathize with President Trump’s recent executive order banning chokeholds except if the officer’s life is at
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Police Officer Charged With Assault for Ordering Dog to Attack Black Man
A white police officer has been charged with second-degree felony assault for ordering his police dog to bite a Black man who had already surrendered
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‘Home Town Takeover’ features beloved Alabama police officer - African American News Today - EIN Presswire
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New video shows moment Atlanta police fatally shot Rayshard Brooks
Atlanta police fatally shoot Rayshard Brooks 27, on Friday, June
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Rihanna, Migos, Meek Mill, Nas & More Sign Open Letter Calling For Reform Of New York Police Department
Rihanna, Migos, Meek Mill, Nas & More Sign Open Letter Calling For Reform Of New York Police Department
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Biden set to host family of George Floyd on first anniversary of his death
By: Alyssa Wilson Tuesday marks the first anniversary of the day former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd. The world watched the video of Chauvin kneeling on Floyd for nine minutes as he said, 'I can't breathe.'   Since that day, protests erupted across the
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1 Year Later, What’s Really Changed Since George Floyd’s Murder?
With the one-year mark since George Floyd's murder, here's what's changed on the national police reform front -- and what hasn't -- since that fateful Memorial Day in Minneapolis.
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What do Derek Chauvin and Amy Cooper have to do with public education? Everything.
Submitted by: Jon Hale, University of South Carolina,  Candace Livingston, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Educators in South Carolina have been called to task once again. Recent calls to abolish the police, indict and convict police officers including Derek Chauvin, and to hold Whites
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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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OSI-Baltimore Statement on Recent Police Killings | Afro
This dark history encompasses the killing of Freddie Gray, who died at the hands of Baltimore police five years ago last month, and countless others, including many whose names have been lost to
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Promotions within the Executive of the Royal Saint Lucia Police Force
MR. GEORGE NICHOLAS AND DR. MASHAMA SEALY PROMOTED TO THE RANK OF ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER OF POLICE.
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Will Smith Pulls Film Out Of Georgia, Ignoring Post-Reconstruction Era Lessons In His Docuseries ‘Amend’
Smith and director Antoine Fuqua decided to pull their slave drama "Emancipation" out of Georgia in protest of new voting restrictions, but voting rights advocates have asked that high-profile celebrities stay and fight instead.
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Minority Officers Allege Discrimination Over Chauvin Booking
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Eight minority corrections officers who work at the jail holding a former Minneapolis police officer charged with murder in the death of George Floyd allege that they were barred from guarding or having contact with the officer because of their race. Floyd died on May 25 after
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Cori Bush Is Set To Be The First Black Lives Matter Leader In Congress
The activist's primary win against Rep. William Lacy Clay in Missouri's 1st Congressional District is a milestone for the movement born in Ferguson.
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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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VIDEO: Rashard Brooks and the Tale of Two Police Officers and Officer Discretion
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Darnella Frazier, Teen Who Filmed George Floyd’s Murder, Says Minneapolis Police ‘Killed’ Her Uncle
Darnella Frazier, the teenager who filmed Derek Chauvin murder George Floyd, has revealed that Minneapolis police killed her uncle, who was an innocent driver during a high-speed chase conducted under questionable circumstances.
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District Attorney Says Deputies Who Fatally Shot Andrew Brown Jr. Were Justified - The Seattle Medium
Brown, a 42-year-old Black man, was fatally shot by Pasquotank County sheriff's deputies in Elizabeth City on April 21 when they attempted to serve him with an arrest warrant, according to the
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Justice For Shaheen Mackey: Graphic Video Shows Prison Guards Taser Shackled Inmate In Medical Distress Before Death
Shaheen Mackey, who was an inmate at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, suffered from an epileptic seizure only to met with a brutal response that his family argues caused his death.
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Authorities Investigating Florida Principal Who Paddled 6-Year-Old Student In Front Of Her Mother
Video of the disturbing event circulated on social media shows Melissa Carter, head of Central Elementary School in Clewiston, bending a child over and hitting her with a wooden paddle on April 13.
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Community remembers Marcus Smith and demands police accountability - Carolina Peacemaker
On Tuesday night, two years to the day Marcus Smith had his life taken, his parents, George and Mary Smith, stood in front of hundreds of people at the Phill G. McDonald Plaza and recounted the story of their son’s death at the hands of Greensboro Police. “Since that day, I’ve been in a mental
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