Category: Policing Reform

Tulsa plans $105m in reparations for America's 'hidden' massacre 0

Tulsa plans $105m in reparations for America’s ‘hidden’ massacre

.The city of Tulsa, Oklahoma is preparing to award its black community a $105m (£73.8m) reparations package to address the harms caused by the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, one of the largest and...

Justice Department moves to cancel police reform settlements reached with Minneapolis and Louisville

Justice Department moves to cancel police reform settlements reached with Minneapolis and Louisville

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Justice Department moved Wednesday to cancel settlements with Minneapolis and Louisville that called for an overhaul of their police departments following the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor that...

ICE Duped a Federal Judge Into Allowing Raid on Columbia Student Dorms

ICE Duped a Federal Judge Into Allowing Raid on Columbia Student Dorms

As part of the Trump administration’s targeting of Columbia University students for deportation, a high-ranking Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent submitted a wildly inaccurate affidavit to a federal judge to get a search warrant,...

Columbia suspends over 65 students following pro-Palestinian protest in library

Columbia suspends over 65 students following pro-Palestinian protest in library

NEW YORK (AP) — Columbia University has suspended dozens of students and barred alums and others who participated in a pro-Palestinian demonstration inside the school’s main library earlier this week, a school spokesperson said...

Cops Are Already Unleashed. Trump Is Telling Them to Run Wild.

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...

Why voters rejected plans to replace the Minneapolis Police Department – and what’s next for policing reform

Why voters rejected plans to replace the Minneapolis Police Department – and what’s next for policing reform

By Michelle S. Phelps

Read the full article from Yahoo News, here.

Michelle Phelps at the University of Minnesota leads a project looking at attitudes toward policing in the city. The Conversation asked her to explain what happened in the Nov. 2, 2021, vote and where it leaves both Minneapolis’ beleaguered police department and police reform movements nationwide.

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We want investments in Black communities, determined by Black communities, and divestment from exploitative forces including prisons, fossil fuels, police, surveillance and exploitative corporations.

By Movement 4 Black Lives

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