police brutality
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Black Teen Slammed to Ground at Texas Pool Party Sues Ex-Cop, City for $5,000,000
A Texas teen who was slammed to the ground and pinned down by a McKinney, Texas, police officer during a pool party in June 2015 has now filed a federal suit against the now former cop, the city and the McKinney Police Department, the Dallas Morning News reports. According to the report, Dajerria Becton and…
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Lawyer Releases Video of Fort Worth, Texas, Police Officer Shooting Black Man in Back
On Tuesday a video was released showing a Fort Worth, Texas, police officer shooting a black man in the back as he walked away. However, as NBCDFW notes, the police and the man’s lawyer are not seeing eye to eye on whether the July shooting, which left the man paralyzed, was justified. David Collie released…
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Full-Length Version of Viral Video of Fort Worth, Texas, Police Officer Posted Online
The full, nearly 30-minute version of the viral video showing an unidentified white Fort Worth, Texas, police officer antagonizing and then arresting a black mother and her two daughters was posted on YouTube on Friday. It does not reveal any new information about the arrests, but it contains graphic and explicit language, so viewer discretion…
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The 2016 Wypipo Awards
We’d like to welcome you to the annual Wypipo Awards. For those of you attending for the first time, these awards are not focused on all white people. Instead, this is a ceremony that celebrates the subset of the Caucasian constituency constantly complaining that the BET Awards, the NAACP Awards and even the Soul Train…
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Fort Worth, Texas, Police Chief: Officer Acted ‘Rude’ but Not Racist in Viral Video
Officials in Fort Worth, Texas, said Friday that they were disturbed and outraged by the video of a white police officer arresting a black woman and her two daughters after she called police to report an assault on her son. The now viral video of Wednesday’s incident was posted to Facebook, causing many to accuse…
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UPDATE: Lana Sprayberry, Dallas Principal Under Fire After Her Fort Worth Post Went Viral, Resigns
Updated Saturday, Dec. 24, 7:01 p.m. EDT: Lana Sprayberry, principal of Inspired Vision Academy Elementary School in Dallas, has resigned amid calls for her to be fired. Good riddance. See the statement from A+Charter Schools Inc. below: Earlier: Lana Sprayberry, principal of Inspired Vision Academy Elementary School in Dallas, is under fire after her post…
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Fort Worth, Texas, Protesters Rally Against Officer’s Treatment of Mother, 2 Daughters
Protesters gathered in downtown Fort Worth, Texas, on Thursday night in response to the now viral video of a Fort Worth police officer manhandling a woman who called for help when her son was assaulted. As previously reported on The Root, Jacqueline Craig, a 46-year-old black woman, called police after her son reported being choked…
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Woman Reports White Man Choked Her Son; Fort Worth, Texas, Police Assault, Arrest Her Instead
Updated Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016, 4:12 p.m. EST: The Fort Worth Police Department has released a statement regarding the video showing a Fort Worth police officer assaulting and arresting Jacqueline Craig and her two daughters: We acknowledge that the initial appearance of the video may raise serious questions. We ask that our investigators are given…
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'Bulletproof: Black Lives Matter' Shirts Pulled From Wal-Mart's Website
After a letter sent out by the president of the national Fraternal Order of Police, the largest police organization in the nation, Wal-Mart decided to stop selling on its website T-shirts and sweatshirts displaying the word “Bulletproof” with the words “Black Lives Matter” written under it, the Washington Post reports. On Tuesday, Chuck Canterbury, the president…