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Two Limpopo police officers are to spend the next five years in jail for asking an undocumented immigrant for a R500 bribe to avoid arrest.
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AG Barr calls unfair policing of Black people a 'widespread phenomenon' : TheGrio
Attorney General William Barr rejects the idea of systemic racism in policing. In an interview with ABC News, Barr acknowledged,... View Article The post AG Barr calls unfair policing of Black people a 'widespread phenomenon' appeared first on TheGrio.
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Kansas City Activist Whose Blistering Condemnation of Police Board Went Viral Now Claims Cops Are Following, Intimidating and Plotting to Murder Her
A 20-year-old Kansas City, Missouri, activist who last week excoriated law enforcement in her city for being racist has received death threats and worries the […]
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Trump Issues Executive Order On Police Reform And Meets With Black Families
President Donald Trump held a press conference today (June 16) in the Rose Garden at the White House to sign an executive order providing his strategy for restoring, renewing and rebuilding communities through police
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Trinidad: Cops, soldiers charged with humiliating homeless man
(Trinidad Express) The Trinidad and Tobago Regiment is confirming that two of its soldiers, along with two police officers, have been charged in connection with an incident that happened with the “homeless humiliation” in the first days of the Covid-19 lock
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St. Paul Police Accused of Sabotaging George Floyd Protests After White Man Randomly Vandalizes AutoZone Store with Hammer
A Minnesota police department denied accusations from critics who believe they deployed undercover officers to undermine protests happening in
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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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Lee should apologize | Culver City News
… believed demonstrated “disproportionate responses” to African-Americans by Culver City Police, vice …
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Q&A with Chief Deputy Lewis Blanchard
Lewis Blanchard, who has served as chief deputy at the Burke County Sheriff’s Office since January 2017, recently submitted his letter of resignation and plans for retirement. Blanchard began his career as a beach patrolman and EMT before transitioning into law enforcement full time in 1990. That
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Police Chief Says Cop Mistakenly Shot Daunte Wright, Recycles Same Excuse Used In Death Of Oscar Grant
While addressing reporters on Monday, Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon said that Wright's death occurred after an officer made an “accidental discharge” from her gun, instead of using her taser.
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Petition Demanding Justice for Elijah McClain Receives More Than 2 Million Signatures, Colorado Governor Announces Investigation
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis announced his office would look into the police-involved death of Elijah McClain after public outcry. McClain was walking home from a []
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THE HUTCHINSON REPORT: Lacey needs to re-examine questionable shootings
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Redesign of Public Safety Series: State legislators speak on police reform - DefenderNetwork.com
As part of the Defender’s “Redesigning Public Safety” series, we spoke with the state senators who are at the heart of Texas’ police reform efforts. Here, Texas legislators Borris Miles, Royce West and John Whitmire share their perspectives on those reform and the legislation they will be working
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Rep. Omar Is Calling For The End Of U. S. Political and Economic Systems
Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar called for dismantling economic and political systems that serve as a “system of oppression,” Tuesday.
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Widow And Family Of Rayshard Brooks Hold Emotional Press Conference
The family of Rayshard Brooks, the 27-year-old Black man who was killed by an Atlanta police officer, in a Wendy’s drive through, became extremely emotional during a press conference on Monday (June 15), expressing shock and grief  that one the many incidents of Black men being killed by law
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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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Aurora Police Under Fire For Handcuffing Kids Lying On Their Stomachs In Avoidable Mixup
The women and young children targeted by the Aurora Police Department were handcuffed and forced to lie face-down on the roasting concrete of a mall parking lot when they were incorrectly suspected of stealing a vehicle.
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Mule cop! - St James constable says she was offered US$2,000 to carry drugs
Based on an affidavit presented to a US judge by an ICE agent, Gooden reportedly stated that her colleague, Constable Dremar Graham, who was later arrested, was the mastermind behind the smuggling operation, which also resulted in the arrest of Constable Travonne
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Trump Justice Department Killed Police Reform Programs That Could Have Helped Minneapolis
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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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#StayWoke The Oklahoma Eagle Editorial: Julius Jones Wins Phase I Of Commutation Process, Black Farmers and OKC Shootings | The Oklahoma Eagle
Julius Jones Wins Phase I Of Commutation Process In what some might call a stunning vote by the probation and parole board, they voted 3-1 to consider Julius Jones’ case for commutation. Jones has spent two decades on death row after his conviction of the 1999 murder of Paul Howell in
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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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How Policing Has — And Hasn’t — Changed In The Year Since George Floyd Was Murdered
Local and state law enforcement agencies have adopted some reforms, but there's still a long way to go, according to experts and activists.
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LA Protesters Detained In Cruelly Ironic Location
UCLA and its faculty expressed outrage Tuesday that Los Angeles police detained people arrested during protests against George Floyd’s death at the university’s Jackie Robinson Stadium, named for Major League Baseball’s first Black player and a school
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President Johnson seeks 10% MPD budget reduction in 2021 to be reallocated for vital community needs
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