police brutality
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2 Texas Officers Cleared After Subjecting Black College Student to Body Cavity Search, What Her Lawyer Calls ‘Rape by Cop’
#SayHerName is a movement started by the African American Policy Forum because black women and girls are disproportionally subjected to police brutality and abuse. It is a call to uplift the names of those mostly forgotten and to seek justice. And although Charnesia Corley did not lose her life in her interaction with Houston law…
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Omarosa Made an Appearance at NABJ and That Shit Did Not Go Over Well
White House Negress token black woman director of communications for the Office of Public Liaison Omarosa Manigault was added as a last-minute addition to a Friday panel discussing police brutality at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in New Orleans. Her announced appearance apparently created an uproar among black journalists attending the event. Page…
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Betty Shelby’s New Job Is Why Cops Won’t Stop Killing Black People
Sometimes, being black is like living inside a terrible movie where the world is so racist that it’s damn near impossible to believe. For example, imagine being a movie producer and I came to you to pitch this idea: OK, there’s a woman cop named Betty Shelby. One day, while on duty, Shelby kills an…
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DC Cop Will Not Face Charges in Fatal Shooting of Terrence Sterling, an Unarmed Black Motorcyclist
A Washington, D.C., police officer who fatally shot and killed an unarmed black motorcyclist in September 2016 will not face charges, federal prosecutors announced Wednesday. Terrence Sterling’s death sparked protests across the capital, raising a fresh wave of anger over the recent spate of police killings over the past few years. However, according to Reuters,…
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‘This Is Ground Zero’: Ferguson, Mo., Remembers Mike Brown on 3rd Anniversary of His Killing
On Tuesday night, more than two dozen people gathered near the spot where Michael Brown Jr. was gunned down three years ago, on Aug. 9, 2014, to mourn and remember the 18-year-old whose life was taken from him and to reconstruct a makeshift memorial in the spot where he died. “We can never forget this,”…
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Viral Video Shows Calif. Cop Pointing Gun at Passenger for More Than 9 Minutes During Traffic Stop
Once again the behavior of a police officer (this time in California) is drawing national attention and debate after the officer decided to keep his weapon trained on a passenger in a car for more than nine minutes during a traffic stop. According to the Washington Post, the officer pulled over the vehicle along U.S.…
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Civil Rights Lawsuit Filed Against Off-Duty Ill. Cop Seen Threatening Black Teen in Facebook Video
A civil rights lawsuit has been filed against a Lansing, Ill., police officer who was caught on video threatening a young black teen and holding him pinned on the ground back in June, just because the boy was on his property. The lawsuit, which was filed Thursday in federal court in Chicago, alleges that Jordan…
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Respectable Negroes Can’t Advise Colin Kaepernick on Shit
Neither Michael Vick nor Ray Lewis is a coon. They simply have no interest in going toe-to-toe with white supremacy. And Colin Kaepernick has no interest in being a well-behaved, respectable Negro to get a job in the National Football League. Such behavior will not liberate black people, and he knows it. His stance is…
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Three Non-Football Reasons Why Baltimore Would Be The Best City For Colin Kaepernick
Five years after his Super Bowl loss to Joe Flacco and the Ravens, Colin Kaepernick is still better than at least a dozen QBs who already have jobs; guys so awful that nobody would’ve paid attention if they were on the sidelines smoking weed during the national anthem. We shouldn’t even be having this conversation…