Four Dead in Ohio
May 4th, 1970. Kent State University. The war in Vietnam was a massacre. The students at Kent State had set up an encampment to protest this war crime against humanity. A genocide. And the...
Category: Police Brutality
Cops Are Already Unleashed. Trump Is Telling Them to Run Wild.
With his new executive order on policing, Trump just wants to make sure he’s the one holding the lead. This week, Trump signed an executive order “STRENGTHENING AND UNLEASHING AMERICA’S LAW ENFORCEMENT TO PURSUE...
Door knocks and DNA tests: How the Trump administration plans to keep tabs on 450,000 migrant kids
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration is conducting a nationwide, multi-agency review of 450,000 migrant children who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border without their parents during President Joe Biden’s term. Trump officials say they...
What Killed Daniel Prude? The Cops and New York AG Said a Diagnosis That’s Since Been Debunked.
A newly obtained document sheds light on how the disavowed “excited delirium” diagnosis infiltrated the Rochester Police Department before Prude’s death. What killed Daniel Prude? The 41-year-old died in March 2020 after cops pinned...
N.J. State Police has a ‘long and notorious history’ of discrimination, lawyer says. Will it ever change?
Women serving with the New Jersey State Police were told they were “liabilities on the road” or “not tough enough for the job.” Troopers of color were told that “just because you’re Black doesn’t...
New Jersey State Police hit with scathing reports on racial discrimination, handling of complaints
Attorney general makes sweeping recommendations for change at the state agency. New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin on Tuesday ordered a sweeping set of reforms for the State Police and took over some of...
As police kill Native Americans on this reservation, families left afraid and in the dark
Van Dean Scott couldn’t believe what the Rosebud tribal police were telling him. “The cops came to my house from across the road,” he recalled, “and said, ‘Do you have a son named Derrick...
Lawsuit alleging discriminatory traffic enforcement by the BPD seeks go-ahead from federal court
A 2018 lawsuit alleging discriminatory traffic enforcement practices by the Buffalo Police Department is seeking the go-ahead from the federal court to proceed as a class-action lawsuit. The lawsuit against the City of Buffalo claims...
Attorney says video disputes charges that farmworker caused officer’s fatal heart attack
A Guatemalan teen is charged in the death of a Florida sheriff’s sergeant, but his attorney says video shows the officer made an illegal stop and search and used excessive force. Suzanne Gamboa December...
This moment calls for white Americans to become anti-racists
By Beth Kwiatek
“George Floyd’s killing by four white police officers, and the nonchalance in which it was enacted, has finally outraged white America. White America can no longer ignore or dismiss the reality of what it means to be black or brown in this country.”