police killings
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Officers Who Used Taser on Naked, Unarmed Mentally Ill Man Didn’t Follow International Guidelines; Still Won’t Be Disciplined
More than a year ago, an international policing agency issued guidelines on how officers should properly use Tasers. In April 2017, the International Association of Chiefs of Police wrote that officers who suspected “excited delirium”—a controversial condition whose symptoms include aggressive or bizarre behavior and paranoia—should “consider the possibility that the situation is a medical…
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Ava DuVernay, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Janelle Monáe and More Join Call for Justice for Slain Afro-Brazilian Activist
More than two weeks after the assassination of Marielle Franco, an Afro-Brazilian politician who had staunchly advocated against police violence, grim details have emerged around her death. As Kiratiana Freelon reported for The Root, the 38-year-old Franco was gunned down in her car by armed men in Rio de Janeiro. She was shot a total…
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NABJ’s Executive Director Blasts Board’s Fostering of ‘Bad Business Culture’
Meddling, Arrogance, Unprofessional Gossip Cited Memphis Paper Going Deeper in Reporting on Itself Geographic’s Race Problems: Omission, Mindset L.A. Times Debuts Spanish-Language Edition Trump Helps Deflect Coverage of Police Killings Telemundo Rides Latinos’ Shifting Preferences Covering White Supremacists Takes Emotional Toll Getler, Diversity Champ at Washington Post, Dies O.J. Simpson Says He Hasn’t Watched O.J.…
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Fake Street Signs Rip Police After High-Profile Shooting Deaths in Minn.
The people have spoken and continue to speak in new and innovative ways. At least two illegal street signs with the message, “Warning: Twin Cities police easily startled,” were posted Sunday in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn., showing an international symbol for a police officer shooting his weapon in random and dangerous directions. The signs—which…
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White Men Can’t Murder: Why White Cops Are Immune to the Law
Philando Castile was not murdered, because white police officers don’t murder black men. If that statement upsets you, allow me to cheer you up with a joke: What’s rarer than getting struck by lightning, being killed by a terrorist or winning the lottery? Well, in the past 10 years, 123 people or groups have hit…
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Mother of 15-Year-Old Jordan Edwards Joins Lawsuit Against Officer, City in Son’s Death; Also Sues Father
The mother of 15-year-old Jordan Edwards on Friday filed to formally join the lawsuit against the city of Balch Springs, Texas, and ex-Police Officer Roy Oliver, who killed her son with a rifle as he was leaving a house party in April. According to the Dallas Morning News, Shaunkeyia Stephens’ suit alleges that the city…
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Yet Another 15-Year-Old Shot and Killed by Police, This Time in San Diego
On the very same day 15-year-old Jordan Edwards was laid to rest after being fatally shot by a police officer in Texas, an unidentified teenager, also 15, was shot and killed by San Diego police. NBC San Diego reports that the teen called 911 just before 3:30 a.m. Saturday asking officers to conduct a welfare…
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Hundreds Gather to Remember Quanice Hayes, a Black Teen Killed by Police in Oregon
A memorial for Quanice Hayes, a black teen killed by police in Portland, Ore., brought out hundreds on Friday, who mourned the 17-year-old and took to the streets in protest afterward. The Oregonian reports that about 200 people filled the Philadelphia Missionary Baptist Church in Northeast Portland for the afternoon service, days after a Multnomah…
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Suspect in Killings of Iowa Cops Charged With Murder
An Iowa man who was known to police because of his several run-ins with officers and who had been banned from his daughter’s high school after waving a Confederate flag has been charged with murder in the ambush-style killings of two police officers, Reuters reports. Scott Michael Greene, 46, was arrested after turning himself in…