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In Sierra Leone – police shot man dead in a private land dispute
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 April 2023: Just when you think that the ink is about to dry on the latest report by the Human Rights Commission of Sierra Leone into police brutality at a student demonstration in Freetown last Monday, where heavily armed police officers fired shots at protesting
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
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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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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Minneapolis to spend $6.4M to recruit more police officers - Black News Channel
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minneapolis is planning to spend $6.4 million to hire dozens of police officers, at a time when some City Council members and activist groups have been advocating to replace the police department following George Floyd's death. The City Council voted unanimously Friday to approve
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New ACLU Report Shows Despite COVID-19, Fatal Police Shootings Continue - Milwaukee Community Journal
NEW YORK — Today, the American Civil Liberties Union released “The Other Epidemic: Fatal Police Shootings in the Time of COVID-19.” The report finds fatal shootings by police are so routine that, even during a national pandemic, with far fewer people traveling outside of their homes and police
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Movement for Black Lives seeks sweeping legislative changes - DefenderNetwork.com
Proposed federal legislation that would radically transform the nation’s criminal justice system through such changes as eliminating agencies like the Drug Enforcement Administration and the use of surveillance technology was unveiled Tuesday by the Movement for Black Lives. Dubbed the BREATHE
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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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Eastern Cape man killed by mob following social media rumours that he murdered 6-year-old girl | News24
A man from Mdantsane in the Eastern Cape was chased, assaulted and eventually murdered by a mob who believed he had killed a 6-year-old girl.
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Atlanta Police Officers Reinstated After Being Fired For Tasing Incident
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Black Woman Was Humiliated By Cops Who Forced Her To Leave Her Home Naked
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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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Alexandria’s first African American police chief talks police reform, race relations
A former police department leader who has vast personal and professional experience with race relations spoke to WTOP about what’s needed to create systemic societal change and ways to revamp police
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Grammy Award-winner Dorinda Clark-Cole heads Clearwater Music Fest, June 12 –
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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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Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms Unveils the One Atlanta: One APD Community Policing Roadmap | Atlanta Daily World
Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms Unveils the One Atlanta: One APD Community Policing Roadmap Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms released the One Atlanta: One APD Community Policing Roadmap—a cohesive community policing strategy that will help reform policing in our community and protect all Atlantans. The
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ESOP condemns Chief Mary Barton, calling officer’s reassignment a retaliation
Officer Shanette Hall is the first of three Black female police officers to introduce herself on a recent Vice video in which black female cops talk about the culture of
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Coki Point Shooting Victim in Serious Condition Friday Night
A man found shot multiple times by police officers responding to a call in the Coki Point area of St Thomas was in serious condition at the Schneider Regional Medical Center as of about 8 p.m. Friday.
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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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In Search of Justice
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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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Tech And Policing Amidst Pandemic And Protests - Blavity
Now, many Americans are experiencing, for the first time, a reality that Black people in this country have been living with since 1619: white supremacist terrorism supported by
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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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New video shows moment Atlanta police fatally shot Rayshard Brooks
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Civil Rights Groups: Increase Accountability in Policing
WASHINGTON – Vanita Gupta, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, submitted written testimony today to the President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice highlighting the need for transformative reform of policing at both the federal
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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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An Off-Duty LAPD Officer Claimed Starbucks Put A Tampon In His Drink
The Los Angeles Country Sheriff’s Department is investigating reports where an off-duty cop claims to have found a tampon inside of his beverage at Starbucks.
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Kamala Harris: I'm Grateful That Black Women Have Had My Back
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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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SCA students argue for reparations at NYU - African American News Today - EIN Presswire
… descendants of chatel slavery.  “Black Americans are the only group that … to formally achieve redress for African-Americans and American Descendants of Slavery … and violence has disproportionately killed Black Americans for years. When people protested …
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Council can’t slow cops’ overtime roll - The Bay State Banner
In response to calls for defining police last year, Mayor Martin Walsh pledged to cut the Police Department’s overtime budget by 20%, but the police have already overspent that budget little more than half way through the fiscal
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