Sheriff Ric Bradsaw of Palm Beach County, Florida, sums up the ethic employed by police departments across the country: Continue reading The most telling law enforcement quote | #DontrellStephens | #BlackLivesMatter
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1.5 million missing Black men: How many innocents?
Can you imagine spending thirteen years in jail for a crime you didn’t commit simply because the exculpatory evidence you might have defended yourself with happened to have been given to someone as a gift? Continue reading 1.5 million missing Black men: How many innocents?
A riff on MLK’s “Three Evils of Society”-calling BlackLivesMatter, MoralMonday, and the relatively conscious rest of us
Martin Luther King gave “The Three Evils of Society” speech on August 31, 1967, at the first and only National Conference on New Politics in Chicago. Continue reading A riff on MLK’s “Three Evils of Society”-calling BlackLivesMatter, MoralMonday, and the relatively conscious rest of us
Deadly Force, in Black and White – ProPublica
A ProPublica analysis of killings by police shows outsize risk for young black males.
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The man who was beaten by #SanBernadino deputies is white. Now what?
Francis Pusok was badly beaten by a group of San Bernadino Sheriff’s deputies, as seen in a video that has, by now, been widely circulated. What many readers and viewers may not realize is that Pusok is white. Continue reading The man who was beaten by #SanBernadino deputies is white. Now what?
UPDATED: #JustusHowell, 17, shot in the back in Zion, Illinois | #BlackLivesMatter
Black Illinois Teen Killed By Police Was Shot In Back | Reuters | April 6, 2015
A black teenager killed by police outside of Chicago over the weekend was shot twice in the back after attempting to steal an illegal handgun, officials and local media said on Monday. Continue reading UPDATED: #JustusHowell, 17, shot in the back in Zion, Illinois | #BlackLivesMatter
#HakeemKuta’s death was avoidable | #NYPD| #BlackLivesMatter
Hakeem Kuta was seventeen years old. He had no arrest record. For a boy his age, living where he does, that means everything. He was out and about with a fourteen year old friend when the police pursued him on based on a report of teens smoking marijuana. Continue reading #HakeemKuta’s death was avoidable | #NYPD| #BlackLivesMatter
It’s 2015 and Liberal California prosecutes a Black woman for #lynching
It may come as a shock, but if you are a Black woman, you can be prosecuted for #lynching in Liberal California. Continue reading It’s 2015 and Liberal California prosecutes a Black woman for #lynching
POLL: Whites More Likely To OK Police Striking People
WASHINGTON (AP) — Whites in the United States approve of police officers hitting people in far greater numbers than blacks and Hispanics do, at a time when the country is struggling to deal with police use of deadly force against men of color, according to a major American trend survey.
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March 2015’s #PoliceBrutality output in one photo
Brutality, increasingly, reigns king in America. The month of March 2015 was the police state’s most prolific ever in terms of output. In fact, it was so prolific that in one month, our police forces have managed to kill more people than individual countries have since the turn of last century. Continue reading March 2015’s #PoliceBrutality output in one photo