police brutality
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Eric Garner’s Widow Moves Into Her Dream Home … Without Her Husband or Daughter
Esaw Snipes, the widow of NYPD choking victim, Eric Garner, whose last words repeated the refrain, “I can’t breathe,” recently moved into a dream home, but of course, remains bittersweet that her husband and daughter could not be there to share it with her. “I have this home but it’s missing my husband; it’s missing…
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Chicago Cop Under Investigation After Being Caught on Viral Video Saying 'I Kill Motherf–kers'
One of Chicago’s finest is under investigation after he was caught on camera harassing two black men and quipping, “I kill motherfuckers.” The officer is seen in the video in an unmarked car, but in full uniform (minus his name and badge) taunting the young men. “I kill motherfuckers,” the officer could be heard telling…
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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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Video Shows at Least 5 Cops Aiming Guns at Black Woman With Her Hands Up; LAPD Says She Is a Kidnapping Suspect
The footage is enough to make your stomach drop. In it, a black woman can be seen slowly exiting a vehicle with her hands up and turning around. As the camera pans to the left, you see at least five cops, all of them with their guns drawn and pointed at the woman, who slowly…
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White Georgia Cop Faces Voluntary Manslaughter Charge in Death of Black Motorist
For at least the second time this week, a white police officer has been charged in the death of an unarmed black person. Kingsland, Ga., Police Officer Zechariah Presley was charged with voluntary manslaughter in the death of Anthony Green, a black motorist who was shot while running away from Presley. CBS News reports that…
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Officer Who Killed Unarmed Teen Antwon Rose II Charged With Homicide
Officer Michael Rosfeld, the East Pittsburgh police officer caught on camera shooting an unarmed 17-year-old in the back as he ran away, has been charged on one count of criminal homicide. According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Rosfeld turned himself in at 6:30 a.m. Wednesday in City Court in downtown Pittsburgh, where he was granted an…
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Pennsylvania Mayor Urges Cops to Treat Pittsburgh Protesters Like It’s 1963
The mayor of a Pittsburgh suburb called on police officers to go old school on the people protesting the officer-involved shooting of a 17-year-old, even offering a photographic example: a historic photograph of cops attacking kids with water cannons and police dogs during the Birmingham, Ala., 1963 Children’s Crusade. According to WTAE-TV, Arnold, Pa., Mayor…
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All Black People Are Victims of Police Brutality
Editor’s note: This week, The Root will examine the many facets of law enforcement and its effects on the black community with our weeklong series Unprotected, Underserved: The Policing of Black America. He was 23 years old. He needed their protection. He needed their service. So he called the police. They shot him. He is paralyzed.…
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Antwon Rose Jr. and When White Privilege Kills Black People
The funeral for Antwon Rose Jr. took place Monday morning at Woodland Hills Intermediate School in Swissvale, a borough that sits several miles east of Pittsburgh. Like the East Pittsburgh borough where Rose was killed, Swissvale is one of at least a dozen different intersecting municipalities that Pittsburgh’s eastern suburbs consist of. I went to…