The Cop Was the Hero in One Viral Video. Another Told a Different Story.

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The Cop Was the Hero in One Viral Video. Another Told a Different Story.

Bobby White was celebrated as the “Basketball Cop” after millions saw a video of him shooting hoops with local teenagers. A recording from two years earlier shows him throwing a young Black man on the hood of his car during an arrest.

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First-person essay by Mourad al-Sayyid In the past few weeks of unprecedented — and sometimes unpredictable — protests fighting for Black lives and against police brutality, I have asked myself about similarities between this movement in the United States and Egypt’s 2011 revolution. I considered

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Silence Is NOT An Option | Afro

The police officer who put his knee on George Floyd’s neck and the police officers who stood by and watched didn’t just murder George Floyd, they stole

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

New Jersey cop charged for pepper spraying Black men without reason

A New Jersey police officer has been charged assault for pepper spraying young men while responding to a 911

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Ahmaud Arbery’s Alleged Murderer Was Allegedly Encouraged By Cops To Be A Vigilante

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Landmark Police Reform Bill Addresses Funding, Chokeholds, Lynching And Accountability

Led by the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), the Justice in Policing Act of 2020 ambitiously aims to end police brutality, hold police accountable, improve transparency in policing and create meaningful, structural change when it comes to how law enforcement does their

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Port of Seattle Commission To Establish Task Force On Port Policing And Civil Rights - The Seattle Medium

The Port of Seattle Commission approved the establishment of a task force on Port policing and civil rights, which will lead a comprehensive assessment of the Port of Seattle Police

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25 cars join ‘Slow Ride for Justice’ through Eutaw to protest police brutality and call for criminal justice reform

On Sunday afternoon, June 14, 2020, twenty-five cars joined the ‘Slow Ride for Justice’ through the City of Eutaw, to protest the police killings of Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and many

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OP-ED | Defining Defunding the Police to Help our Community - African American News Today - EIN News

If we asked 25 different people what “defund the police” means, we would likely get 25 different definitions. Our definition focuses on where the investment should take place...

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A New Low’: Elijah McClain’s Family Reacts To Photos Of Cops Re-enacting Chokehold Death

Reports describe a shockingly insensitive act in the midst of protest.

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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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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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Separate probe sought in police killing of local teen -

COMPTON — The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors June 23 joined others in calling for an independent investigation into the death of an 18-year-old security guard shot to death by deputies from the Compton Sheriff’s Station June 18. Acting on a motion by Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, the

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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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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

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Filmmaker Julian Marshall Documents Intensity Of NYC Protests

Filmmaker Julian Marshall took his camera to the streets.

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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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Clunis’ sudden death shocks cops, family

When Leon Clunis called Senior Superintendent Wayne Cameron at 12:35 p.m. on Tuesday to remind him that he would be discharged shortly from the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH), neither man would imagine that the wounded “warrior” would be leaving for the

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

“Stop Killing Us:” Activists Bring Their Pain to State Capitol

(CBM) Last week, several California social and criminal justice organizations, as well as community-based groups, gathered for a rally at the state Capitol titled “Stop Killing Us.” Oakland-based All of Us or None (AOUON) organized the event — with the help of other partners across the state — to

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Source: The Sacramento Observer

Watch: Former Officer Charged In Death of George Floyd Confronted While Shopping In Minneapolis Grocery Store

J. Alexander Kueng, a former Minneapolis police officer who faces criminal charges in the death of George Floyd, was confronted and questioned by a shopper []

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Twin Cities Area Police Forces Loaded Up On War Surplus Under President Trump

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‘A New Low’: Elijah McClain’s Family Reacts To Photos Of Cops ‘Re-enacting’ Chokehold Death

Reports describe a shockingly insensitive act in the midst of protest.

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Source: Black America Web

Congress Moves George Floyd Justice In Policing Act Measure Forward

The House Judiciary Committee has introduced the George Floyd Justice In Policing Act, the first-ever bold, comprehensive approach to hold police accountable, end racial profiling, change the law enforcement culture, empower communities, and build trust between law enforcement and minority

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Cops salute murdered officer who was shot with his own gun - The Mississippi Link

On a day when 11 people were shot, two fatally, amid months of soaring gun violence in Chicago, a memorial honored a police officer who was shot 10 years ago in the back with his own gun and then, as he lay fallen, shot in the head at close range. Chicago Police holds a memorial []

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Armed Texans rally again for bar that defied COVID-19 shutdown order

More than a hundred Texans held an armed rally on Saturday in support of a bar whose owner was arrested for defying a shutdown order ...

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Source: South Florida Times

Mule cop! - St James constable says she was offered US$2,000 to carry drugs

Western Bureau: Woman Constable Shermain Gooden, one of the three Jamaican police personnel arrested in a drug bust in the United States by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) last Thursday, has reportedly admitted her guilt and has told the...

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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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Police Chief Renews Defense Of Black Woman’s Violent Arrest After Old Video Goes Viral

Old video footage of a violent arrest of a Black woman in 2018 has gone viral and the police chief overseeing it made sure everyone knows he approves of the neck restraint used, even if his department can't use them.

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Group Engages Mom-to-Cop Discussions to Fight Police Violence | Afro

MOCHA MOMS, NATION’S OLDEST SUPPORT GROUP FOR MOTHERS OF COLOR, TAKES PRACTICAL STEPS TO END POLICE VIOLENCE

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Ex-Atlanta Officer Who Killed Rayshard Brooks Granted Bond

ATLANTA (AP) — A judge on Tuesday ruled that the former Atlanta police officer who fatally shot Rayshard Brooks can be free on bond while his case is pending. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Jane Barwick set a bond of $500,000 for Garrett Rolfe, who faces charges including felony murder in the

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