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The Times When Black Americans Rose-up In the Wake of Police Brutality
Michael Brown’s death helped spark a whole movement. The Root looks back at other incidents of police brutality that sparked racial justice protests.
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Before George Floyd, There was Rodney King and The L.A. Riots
30 years ago the Rodney King verdict foreshadowed how police brutality caught on camera doesn’t mean justice for Black people
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Cops Furious They Won’t Be Able to Kill More Black People After Prosecutor Announces Not-So-Radical Police Reform
The Minnesota prosecutor who indicted the cop who killed Philando Castile announced a policy that protects and serves. So why are police so upset about it?
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'Don't Black People Have Second Amendment Rights?': The Root Presents: It’s Lit! and Carol Anderson Take Aim at the Fatal Inequality of The Second
The bestselling author of ‘White Rage’ turns her historian’s lens onto the anti-Blackness baked into the American right to keep and bear arms.
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A Timeline of Events That Led to the 2020 'Fed Up'-rising
Without the proper context, it is impossible to understand the mushroom cloud of uprisings that are exploding across the country in the wake of the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and countless others. To contextualize the anger, frustration and desperation that forced protesters to recreate the lawlessness and chaos that black people…
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Oh, Look: NRA Spokeswoman Finally Had Something to Say About Philando Castile’s Shooting Death
It’s been some three-and-a-half weeks since a jury acquitted a St. Anthony, Minn., police officer in the death of permit-to-carry gun owner Philando Castile in a case that enraged the nation. But now that all the drama has unfolded and there is nothing else to be said or done, a National Rifle Association spokeswoman has…
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#PhilandoCastile: Killer Cop Receives $48,500 Buyout to Leave St. Anthony, Minn., Police Department
Just three weeks after he was acquitted of all charges connected to the shooting death of Philando Castile, St. Anthony, Minn., Police Officer Jeronimo Yanez signed a separation agreement with the city Monday to leave the department in exchange for $48,500. A statement posted to the city’s website reads: In order to serve the public…
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Philando Castile, the War on Drugs and the Lynching of Black Humanity [Retracted]
RETRACTED (6/12/18): This story has been removed because we have discovered it was in breach of our editorial standards. If you’d like to know more, you can read an editor’s note here. A cached version of the story is available here for transparency.
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Minn. Governor Wants to Name Police Training Fund After Philando Castile
Thursday marked the one-year anniversary of Philando Castile’s shooting death at the hands of St. Anthony, Minn., Police Officer Jeronimo Yanez. Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton marked the occasion by recommending that the state’s Police Officer Standards and Training Board be named after Castile. The $12 million fund, which was approved by the Legislature earlier this…
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Philando Castile Settlement Shows White America Willingly Pays for White Supremacy
White America has always shown a willingness and a boundless patience when it comes to paying for white supremacy. Not in the moral sense or the spiritual sense or the greater-good-for-mankind sense, but in the actual dollars-and-cents sense. Racial discrimination is actually rather expensive and has been throughout time. Slavery was expensive and borderline inefficient,…