police misconduct
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#WhiteNoise: Garner, NC Cops Raided a Black Woman’s Home After Neighbor Complained of Her Playing 'Islamic Jihadist' Malcolm X Speeches
On Thursday a gang of police officers in Garner, N.C., raided Mikisa Thompson’s house in the middle of the night because she was allegedly playing Malcolm X’s speeches “too loudly.” Thompson, Indy Week reports, has been accused of playing “amplified speech being projected by some sound amplification device,” according to a search warrant issued by the…
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Watch: Texas Police Try to Arrest an Innocent Black Man Because Apparently They All Look Alike
When Clarence Evans refused to give his name and identification to officers who showed up at his house—even though they called him by another man’s name, showed him a picture of a different man and seemed to have no verifiable information about Evans’ identity—they still attempted to arrest him because… Come on. Don’t act like…
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Family of Sandra Bland Demands Answers After New Footage of Her Arrest Surfaces
On Monday night, Dallas news station WFAA released new cellphone footage from the 2015 arrest of Sandra Bland that confirms what we all already knew: that the life of Texas state trooper Brian Encinia was never in danger and that Texas officials have withheld evidence of not only her controversial arrest, but very likely her…
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Policing the Police: Database of Corrupt Cops Opened to Public View
From so-called gang databases to terror watch lists, reports are plentiful about the various lists cops and other law enforcement keep on the people, but who keeps track of police misdeeds? Now, USA Today, in conjunction with the nonprofit Invisible Institute, is making available to the public a database of some 200,000 incidents of alleged…
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Man on Death Row for 33 Years Will Get New Hearing After 'Damning Revelations' of Police Misconduct
Following years of appeals, a Utah man sentenced to death for a 1985 murder is set to get a new hearing after the main witnesses in the case—who vanished into thin air after his conviction—resurfaced after 25 years to allege that investigators threatened them with deportation and paid them to lie in their testimony. In…
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White Cop to Black Kids: ‘Wait Till Your Asses Turn 18. Then You’re Mine’
The first sentence of this story should read: “A Virginia police officer is under fire after he was captured on video insinuating that he can’t wait to subject a group of black middle school children to the horrors of the criminal justice system.” But that would not be true. In fact, the Richmond, Va., police…
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Louisiana Town Swears in Police Chief Who Really Likes Racism
While telling the story of the Louisiana police officer who openly admits to sharing racist memes—including one suggesting white people should drown their daughters if they likes black boys—we should not call him “a racist.” To avoid looking one-sided and to portray ourselves as objective truth-tellers, journalists should refrain from calling anyone a “racist.” Instead…
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Former Portsmouth, Va., Police Chief Claims Her Forced Resignation Was Racially Motivated
Former Portsmouth Police Chief Tonya Chapman—the first black woman to lead a city police department in the state of Virginia—said in a statement on Monday that she was forced to resign after attempting to eradicate the racism and discriminatory behavior within her department. “Having been a member of two other law enforcement agencies, I have…
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N-Word Spewing Vegas Cop Arrested for Recording Man’s Genitals, Making Mentally Ill Man Twerk
A Las Vegas police officer will face felony police misconduct charges after authorities discovered she was running background checks for her civilian friends, making racist and homophobic jokes and sharing demeaning videos of suspects with friends, including footage of a man’s genitals and forcing a mentally ill person to dance. According to KVVU, on March…