police accountability
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Florida Cop Handcuffs 11-Year-Old Black Boy Because ‘He Was Being Disrespectful’
Florida, man. In Jacksonville, Fla., JaxPAL is the city’s Police Athletic League. They sponsor a youth basketball league with the intended goal of creating “positive relationships between law enforcement officers and the youth of our community through educational, athletic and leadership programs.” Would you like to know how that is going? One of the law…
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All Charges Dropped Against 11-Year-Old Tased by Off-Duty Cincinnati Officer
The 11-year-old who was tased in the back by a Cincinnati police officer will no longer face charges after Mayor John Cranley announced on Wednesday that the charges of theft and obstructing official business were dropped at his request. “Tasing an 11-year old who posed no danger to the police is wrong. I’m sorry for…
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Black Lives Matter Disrupts Wedding of Officer Involved in Fatal Shooting of Stephon Clark
One of the officers who fired 10 shots each at Stephon Clark, ultimately killing the young father, was greeted by Black Lives Matter protesters on his wedding day. It may be easy for the unidentified officer to move on with his life, get married, start a family—opportunities that have now been robbed of Clark—but protesters…
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Video Shows Georgia Police Officer Forcefully Restraining 10-Year-Old Distraught Over Father's Arrest
The Athens-Clarke County, Ga., police have launched an investigation after horrific video footage showed a police officer restraining a small child forcefully, all because the distraught boy tried to come in defense of his father, who was being arrested. “Police Chief [Scott] Freeman has ordered an internal affairs investigation and the release of the officer’s…
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Cop Kept His Job After Calling Teenage Black Girl a 'Wild Animal That Needs To Be Put Down'
New documents reveal that a Kentucky police officer who repeatedly made racist remarks on social media only received a slap on the wrist when his bosses discovered his publicly recurring bigotry. According to WDRB, former Louisville, Ky., police officer Brian Smith received a 30-day suspension without pay for violating the Louisville Metropolitan Police Department’s social…
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'I Thought It Would Be My Last Day of the World': Teens Speak Out After Being Held at Gunpoint By Cops
A group of boys who were detained by police officers last week told reporters about the harrowing incident that included racial slurs, cops pointing guns at teenagers and the unsolved mystery of a 911 call. On Wednesday, Brianna Lindell posted a video to her Facebook page of Minnesota Park Police detaining four teenagers at Minnehaha…
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Milwaukee to Pay $3.4 Million to Settle Lawsuit Claiming Police Stop-And-Frisk Policy Targeted Black and Latinx Residents
Milwaukee has agreed to shell out a cool $3.4 million in order to settle a lawsuit which accuses its police department of unduly targeting black and Latinx residents for years through its stop-and-frisk policy. The Milwaukee Common Council approved the settlement last week Tuesday, with Mayor Tom Barrett signing off on the agreement with the…
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South Carolina Police Union Whines About Police Brutality Novel The Hate U Give Being on A School's Summer Reading List
Do you hear that? That’s the sound of blue tears, wailing in the distance as a South Carolina Police Union gets all big mad because Angie Thomas’ award-winning novel The Hate U Give, which centers around police brutality, being included in a school’s summer reading list. The Fraternal Order of Police Tri-County Lodge #3 slammed…
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Cop Caught on Video Firing Taser at a Calm, Nonviolent, Compliant Man Who Was Sitting on a Curb
A viral Facebook video showing a Lancaster, Pa., police officer deploying his Taser on a man who was calm, nonviolent and—most importantly—attempting to comply with orders has resulted in an investigation launched by the city. The video, posted to Facebook early Thursday, shows a man—identified by Lancaster Online as 27-year-old Sean D. Williams—sitting on the…