police and community relations
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NFL Players Speak Out in Congress on Criminal-Justice Reform, Police Killings of Blacks
In the past few years, there has been an uptick in press coverage of police brutality targeting the African-American community, coupled with the already troubled and biased criminal-justice system that penalizes black people often and harshly. This, in turn, has brought a widely publicized rise in the mobilization of the black community and its allies…
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NYC Cops Accused of Using Choke Hold on Black Teen Who Seemed to Be Having Seizure: Report
The New York City Police Department is under fire after residents at Brooklyn’s Pink Houses accused officers of using a banned choke hold Monday on a teen who seemed to be having some type of seizure during the encounter. Witnesses identified the teen as 17-year-old Zavon Hodges. According to the New York Daily News, a…