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Louisville Police Chief Fired After It Was Revealed the Officers' Body Cameras Were Turned Off During David McAtee Shooting
Louisville, like many American cities this last week, was the site of multiple protests against police brutality. The city was marching for both George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, the 26-year-old EMT was killed after Louisville police entered her home with a “no-knock” warrant and opened fire. On Monday, The Root reported that David McAtee was…
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And the Pulitzer Prize for Caucasity Goes to…
This weekend, as I watched COVID-19’s racial disparities blow a 104,600-point lead to extrajudicial police killings, I pondered the effectiveness of nonviolent protest versus “riots.” I imagined strategies that might deter police brutality. I even considered if chaos was a good thing. But, of all the things that crossed my mind, there was never even…
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Facebook Employees Stage Walkout Over Trump’s ‘When the Looting Starts, the Shooting Starts’ Post
Dozens of Facebook employees staged a virtual walkout on Monday to send a message to CEO Mark Zuckerberg as well as y’all’s president that they are not OK with giving the latter a platform to threaten or incite violence against protestors. Many of you have seen the message President Donald Trump posted to Twitter and Facebook…
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Gregg Popovich Isn't Feeling Trump's Response to Protests Either: 'He Is a Coward. To Be in His Presence Makes You Die'
By a show of hands, who likes Donald Trump? I sure as hell didn’t raise mine and I’m 1,000 percent sure that San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich didn’t raise his either. Trump, a man whose logic and leadership capabilities are easily dwarfed by the size of his hands, has spent the last several days…
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Outrage in Phoenix After Dion Johnson Shot by State Trooper Who Wasn't Wearing a Body Camera
This weekend, protests were held nationwide protesting police violence in the wake of the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor at the hands of police. Unfortunately, another black life has been added to the list of those taken by law enforcement. AZ Family reports that Dion Johnson, a 28-year-old black man, was shot by…
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Black Minneapoleans are 6 Times More Likely Than Whites to be Choked Unconscious by a Cop. In Other Cities, It's Even Worse
According to the Hennepin County, Minn. criminal complaint, On May 25, Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd’s neck for eight minutes and 46 seconds. As Floyd desperately pleaded for his life, Chauvin continued to kneel. Floyd drifted into unconsciousness and Chauvin did not remove his knee for 2 minutes and 53 more…
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Independent Autopsy Rules George Floyd’s Death a Homicide
An independent autopsy ordered by the family of George Floyd finds the 46-year-old man was killed by “homicide caused by asphyxia due to neck and back compression that led to a lack of blood flow to the brain.” The early findings from the exam were released Monday afternoon by Floyd family attorney Ben Crump. Dr.…
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‘The Use of Force is Never Acceptable’: 2 Atlanta Cops Fired After Tasing HBCU Students During Protest
At a time when volatile and emotional protests are popping up all over the country behind a black man dying due to what is widely seen as excessive use of police force, you would think that cops at these protests would exercise caution regarding their own uses of force on black demonstrators. Yet, several documented…