implicit bias
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Lawyer Releases Video of Fort Worth, Texas, Police Officer Shooting Black Man in Back
On Tuesday a video was released showing a Fort Worth, Texas, police officer shooting a black man in the back as he walked away. However, as NBCDFW notes, the police and the man’s lawyer are not seeing eye to eye on whether the July shooting, which left the man paralyzed, was justified. David Collie released…
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Like Cops Who Kill Unarmed Black Adults, Pre-K Teachers See Same 'Bad Dude' in Kids
Editor’s note: Once a month, this column will tackle broader questions about what the country should do about gaps in achievement and opportunity. Perception is a matter of life and death. Now a new study from Yale University delivers the news that even black babies suffer the burdens that racial stereotyping inflicts. Preschool educators’ implicit…
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Chicago Police Move to Fire 5 Cops Involved in Shooting Death of Laquan McDonald
Chicago police are looking to fire five officers who were involved in the 2014 shooting death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, The Guardian reports. Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson has filed administrative charges against five officers, including Police Officer Jason Van Dyke, who shot Laquan 16 times. As CNN notes, with his criminal indictment, Van Dyke…
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NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton to Step Down in September
About a week after announcing that he had no intention of staying into a second term, New York City Police Commissioner William J. Bratton has formally announced his plans to step down in September, NPR reports. During the announcement made on Tuesday, Mayor Bill de Blasio said that Chief of Department James O’Neill will be…
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#PokémonGoWhileBlack: Police Point Guns at Iowa Football Player They Say Fit Description of Bank Robber
A University of Iowa defensive end took to Facebook Wednesday to describe a frightful encounter with police while outside playing Pokémon Go in an Iowa City, Iowa, park last week, the Washington Post reports. “Today was the first time I’ve truly feared my life and I have the media to thank for that,” Faith Ekakitie, a…
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Video Shows Texas Police Throwing Black Schoolteacher to the Ground Twice
Officials in Austin, Texas, are investigating the violent arrest last year of a black elementary school teacher who was slammed to the ground twice during a traffic stop, the Austin American-Statesman reports. Also under investigation are comments apparently made by an officer who can be heard on video telling the teacher, Breaion King, that black people…
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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…