Posts Tagged ‘Police Violence’
Officials in Texas Grapple With Police Decision to Use Taser on City Council Member
Officials in a small Texas town are questioning a decision by the police to use a Taser on a member of the City Council before charging him with resisting arrest.
Read MoreBlack College Student Brutally Beaten By Police Officers In D.C.
Police have admitted that Jason Goolsby, who was stopped and beaten in Washington, D.C., had committed no crime.
Read More2 Outside Reviews Say Cleveland Officer Acted Reasonably in Shooting Tamir Rice, 12
By Mitch Smith, New York Times Two outside investigators looking into the death of Tamir Rice have concluded that a Cleveland police officer, Tim Loehmann, acted reasonably in deciding last year to shoot when he confronted the 12-year-old boy carrying what turned out to be a replica gun. Those opinions, reached separately by a…
Read MoreMan Alleges NYPD Cop Called Him N-word Several Times During Stop-and-Frisk Arrest in Lawsuit
A lawsuit alleges that an NYPD officer falsely arrested a Black man who was walking for no reason, and used racial slurs and assaulted him.
Read MoreNew California Law Aims To Curb Racial Profiling
Police will have to report the race of those they stop and frisk, thanks to a new law that wants to decrease racial profiling.
Read MoreBlack Lives Matter Co-Founder Reflects On The Origins Of The Movement
How the movement began on social media, how it grew, and how it answers critiques that it provokes violence.
Read MoreA White Artist Wrote ‘Black Lives Matter’ 2,000 Times. But His Mural Almost Said ‘All Lives Matter.’
What happened when a black gallery owner in Detroit commissioned a large mural from a white artist as an homage to the Black Lives Matter movement.
Read MoreSt. Louis Neighborhood Erupts Following Fatal Officer-Involved Shooting
Heavily armed police deployed tear gas into a North St. Louis City residential neighborhood last night (August 19) in an attempt to quell protests that incited after city police shot and killed an 18-year-old black man, Mansur Bell-Bey.
Read MoreThanks to the Supreme Court, Traffic Stops Can Become a Gamble Between Life and Death
Recent rulings and past decisions have given police officers the legal elbow room to stop, frisk and arrest whomever they want.
Read MoreCop Threatens to Use Taser on Sandra Bland in New Dash-Cam Video
New dashboard-camera footage has been released showing Sandra Bland’s ill-fated police stop July 10.
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