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Haitian-American Legislator Condemns 'Egregious, Inhumane' Treatment By NYPD | New York Carib News
A Haitian-American legislator has strongly condemned what she describes as the “egregious and inhumane” treatment meted out to a 33-year-old Black man during a New York Police Department (NYPD) enforcement of the social distancing mandate of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic last
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Ava DuVernay Announces LEAP Initiative Created to Spotlight Police Brutality Through the Arts
Producer, director, and filmmaker Ava DuVernay is using her gifts to further amplify stories of those impacted by police brutality and
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Naked with 'spit hoods' on, protesters decry Prude's death - Black News Channel
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Naked except for 'spit hoods' in a reference to the killing of Daniel Prude, several protesters sat outside Rochester's police headquarters Monday morning to push for police accountability, local news outlets reported. Photos and video showed roughly a half-dozen
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Evicted ‘naked man’ sobs during police minister’s visit
The incident sparked outrage amongst South Africans, who accused the City of Cape Town of violating the man’s right to human dignity and also reignited calls against heavy-handedness by law enforcement officials in the country
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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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US legislatures slow to pass laws limiting use of force
A wave of police killings of young black men in 2014 prompted 24 states to quickly pass some type of law enforcement reform, but many declined to address the most glaring issue: police use of
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How Do California Cities Spend Money on Policing? - Black Voice News
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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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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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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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Aurora Police Officers Fired For Reenacting Chokehold Used in Elijah McClains Death
[ad_1] After being reported for taking tasteless photographs at the site of a memorial set up for a young man who was placed in a fatal chokehold by Colorado police, three police officers were fired for the offending act according to NBC News. The three Aurora, Colorado, police officers were
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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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Man Charged In Ahmaud Arbery Murder Allegedly Used Racist Slur As Victim Lay Dying
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New Jersey Cop Killed Black Man With ‘His Hands Up’ And ‘Backing Away,’ Witnesses Say
Carl Dorsey III was killed by Newark Police Department Detective Rod Simpkins on New Year's Day under questionable circumstances as officials provide vague reports surrounding the early morning shooting.
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Cops salute murdered officer who was shot with his own gun
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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A New Low’: Elijah McClain’s Family Reacts To Photos Of Cops Re-enacting Chokehold Death
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Open Letter To My Fellow Members Of Law Enforcement
The disproportionate numbers of black, brown and disenfranchised Americans that are over-policed fundamentally will not change if we only focus on tactics and training without acknowledging the structural and systemic racism that policing in America is responsible
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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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THE HUTCHINSON REPORT: Many hands created monster that became Derek Chauvin
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Black Woman Was Humiliated By Cops Who Forced Her To Leave Her Home Naked
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Colorado Police Officer Suspended After Posting ‘Kill Them All’ Aimed at Black Lives Matter Protesters
A White Colorado police officer was suspended and reassigned by the Colorado Springs’ police department after he used a fake Facebook profile to lob disparaging words toward Black Lives Matter…
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Uncle Joe Biden's Voters Are His Biggest Problem.
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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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Philadelphia's police commissioner Danielle Outlaw must resign - TheGrio
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Beyoncé once again proves her title of 'Queen Bey' by taking home the prestigious BET Humanitarian Award for 2020.
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Texas Southern University’s Center for Justice Research Launches National Police Reform Advisory Group
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Jail time for 2 Limpopo cops who asked foreign national for R500 bribe | News24
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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Louisville Police Move to Fire Officer Involved in Breonna Taylor Killing | The Crusader Newspaper Group
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