dallas
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Dallas Police Department Job Applications Almost Quadruple
The number of applications for employment at the Dallas Police Department has almost quadrupled since Police Chief David Brown told protesters, “We’re hiring” at a news conference shorty after the ambush that left five officers dead, according to the Washington Post. As reported by the Post, from July 8 to July 20, the Dallas Police Department received…
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Angry, Paranoid and Trained to Kill: How America Made the Baton Rouge, La., and Dallas Shooters
In the past two weeks, cops in Texas and Louisiana have been ambushed, shot and killed by black men who reportedly were tired of the senseless killings of unarmed black men, women and children by police. I say “reportedly” because we won’t ever know. Both men in question—Micah Xavier Johnson, 25, and Gavin Long, 29—were killed…
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Killsplaining: Whether White Supremacist Cop or Wayward Teen, No One Asks to Be Murdered
We are starting to become a nation of excuses. A nation that shoots first and then looks through your personnel file to explain away why the shooting was valid. I am not a fan of uncovering the past of a person who was unjustifiably killed. If a person is killed by a rogue police officer…
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Dallas Shooter Wrote 'RB' on Wall Using Blood, Police Chief Says
The Dallas gunman who shot and killed five Dallas law-enforcement officers and injured several others taunted police during negotiations and seemed to have other plans, “possibly for a larger attack,” Dallas Police Chief David Brown revealed in a Sunday Interview with CNN’s State of the Union, the Washington Post reports. The chief told the network that…
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Rudy Giuliani Tells Black Parents to 'Teach Children to Be Respectful to the Police'
In an appearance on CBS’ Face the Nation Sunday, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani told black parents that they should teach their children to be respectful to police and worry more about violence in the black community. “There’s too much violence in the black community,” Giuliani said. “If you want to deal with this on…
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Thousands of Protesters Take to the Streets Across US; Hundreds Arrested
Despite the fact that five police officers were killed in Dallas on Thursday, protests over the deaths of 37-year-old Alton Sterling and 32-year-old Philando Castile, two black men killed by police in the last week, continued across the nation throughout the weekend. From London and New York City to Detroit, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Baltimore and…
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Dallas Mayor Says Shooter Acted Alone, We’ve Got to ‘Attack Race’ as a Nation
The mayor of Dallas said Friday that he believed the gunman who attacked police Thursday night acted alone. “We believe, given the facts that we have today, that Mr. Johnson, now deceased, was the lone shooter in this incident,” mayor Mike Rawlings said in a press conference. “By piecing together what was happening at the…
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Alton Sterling, Philando Castile and the Hypocritical Screams of White America After the Dallas Cop Shootings
There was a moment when white Americans felt the dread black Americans live with daily. It happened Dec. 14, 2012, when a shooter entered a Newtown, Conn., elementary school and fatally shot 20 children between the ages of 6 and 7. The notion of safety was shown to be a fraud. The unfairness and vulnerability…