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Why Activists Are Frustrated by the Appointment of Louisville’s New Police Chief
What happens when a high-ranking police officer resigns from one police department after the unjust police shooting of a Black citizen only to become police chief of another embattled police department that came into the spotlight after the unjust police shooting of another Black citizen? Well, mainly, the new police chief is being greeted with…
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'Enough Is Enough': Anjanette Young Declares That She Will Not Be Taking Her Foot Off Chicago PD's Neck at MLK Day Rally
I have a lot of respect for Anjanette Young, the Black woman whose dignity and wellbeing Chicago police officers had such little regard for that they made her wait handcuffed and naked for over half an hour while they searched the wrong home for a suspect in Feb. 2019. Some victims of police violence let…
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Maryland ACLU Releases ‘Chasing Justice’ Report Detailing Baltimore Police Misconduct Allegations
In 2017, The Root reported that the U.S. Department of Justice and the city of Baltimore reached an agreement on a consent decree to ensure that the city and Baltimore Police Department “protect individuals’ statutory and constitutional rights, treat individuals with dignity and respect, and promote public safety in a manner that is fiscally responsible…
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Oregon Lawmaker Proposes Reparation Bill for the State’s Descendants of American Slavery Victims
America’s racial awakening has brought about a number of positive changes—or at least earnest attempts at bringing change. The spotlight on systemic racism in policing, for example, appears to have lawmakers (mostly Democratic, but still) taking police reform more seriously than ever before. But when it comes to racial injustice and inequality, police brutality is…
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Around a Dozen National Guard Members Removed From Inauguration Security Team, Including 2 for Ties to Far-Right Militia Groups [Updated]
On Monday, The Root reported that the FBI screened around 25,000 members of the U.S. Army National Guard to make sure a second attack on the U.S. Capitol wasn’t being planned for President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration by insiders tasked with securing Capitol grounds. It was an unusual screening of an unusually large Inauguration Day security…
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Trump Administration Releases 1776 Commission Report on MLK Day. Spoiler Alert: It’s Racist AF
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I wrote a piece that celebrates King’s legacy and highlights the work that still needs to be done around racial justice and equality. Other writers did the same because that’s generally what writers do to commemorate the holiday—unless you’re a writer for the Trump administration. It’s clear that President-reject…
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Maryland White Supremacist Arrested After GPS Monitor Places Him at U.S. Capitol During Riot
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: These Capitol coup criminals just aren’t very smart. Ever since the whiney wypipo war on reality took place at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, The FBI and other law enforcement agencies have been locating participants and taking them into custody. Maybe it was unmitigated whiteness…
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'I Can’t Breathe Until I Know Justice is Happening': Son of Unarmed Black Man Killed by Texas Cop Speaks Out
If I’m ever having any sort of mental breakdown, don’t call the police. Of course, that request wouldn’t have saved the life of 52-year-old Patrick Warren Sr. of Killeen, Texas, who was fatally shot by a police officer responding to a call Warren’s family said they made to authorities expecting a mental health professional to…
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FBI to Screen Around 25,000 National Guard Members Fearing Possible Insider Attack on Inauguration Day
We’re just two days away from the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden. Some Americans are excited, some are still mourning the about-damn-timely demise of Donald Trump’s presidency and others are pretty indifferent about the whole thing as a lifetime of witnessing America being America has left them cynical AF. Meanwhile, the FBI and U.S. defense…
