black lives matter and police
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Report: D.C. Police Made At Least 5 Times More Arrests During One Day of BLM Protests Than at Capitol Insurrection
Surprising no one, but confirming of us what many suspected while watching a free-wheeling mass of Trump supporters break into the U.S. Capitol building, police in Washington D.C. arrested far less rioters in the white supremacist insurrection than they did during a single day of racial justice protests in the city this summer. A CNN…
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California Sheriff's Office Employee Caught Vandalizing a Black Lives Matters Sign
Law enforcement is a sensitive bunch. Apparently being told “Hey, don’t kill us,” just gets them in their feelings, so much so that an employee at the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office in California was arrested for vandalizing a Black Lives Matter sign. NBC News reports that a homeowner in Thousand Oaks, Calif, has repeatedly had…
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Kevin Sneed Acquitted of 'Attempted Murder' of Maryland Cop Who Jumped Into His Car [Corrected]
Kevin Sneed of Prince George’s County, Maryland, was pulled over for a broken taillight. He ended up with an attempted murder charge. But after a two-year battle, and with help from local advocacy groups, Sneed can continue being a freed man. Sometimes the justice system gets it right. According to NBC Washington 4, the officer…
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Mass. Cop’s Wife Fakes Home Robbery, Blames BLM
The wife of a Millbury, Mass., police officer is accused of faking a robbery and vandalizing the couple’s own home with “Black Lives Matter,” graffiti, CBS Boston reports. On Oct. 17, Maria Daly reported a burglary at her home, saying that jewelry and money had been stolen. She also reportedly said that her house was…
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White Mass. Mayor Won’t Remove Black Lives Matter Banner From City Hall
A Massachusetts mayor has refused to remove a Black Lives Matter banner from City Hall at the request of the local police union. The banner features the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter and has been hanging from Somerville City Hall since August 2015. According to USA Today, the Somerville Police Employee’s Association recently published a letter to Mayor Joseph…
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#WeWontBeSilent: 2 Things the DOJ Can Do Now to Stop Police Violence
Two more black men became a hashtag on Twitter last week: Alton Sterling and Philando Castile. It’s a modern marker of our times, of an unnatural death publicly witnessed through a cellphone-camera lens. They were both killed by police officers for dubious reasons: They owned guns in states where carrying guns publicly is legal, but…