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17-Year-Old Arrested and Charged With 1st Degree Murder In Shooting Death of 2 During Jacob Blake Protests in Kenosha, Wis. [Updated]
Updated: 8/26/20, 2:28 p.m.: Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, from Antioch, Illinois, was arrested Wednesday and charged with first-degree murder in connection with the fatal shooting of two people and the injury of a third during a chaotic protest in Kenosha Tuesday night. Insider reports that Rittenhouse was armed with an AK-47 and had crossed state lines…
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New Footage Shows Phoenix Police Mocking Muslim Man's Faith as They Kneel on Neck, Killing Him
New body-camera footage released last Wednesday revealed Phoenix police insulted Muhammad Muhaymin Jr.’s faith while he pleaded for help before his death. HuffPost reports that Muhaymin could be heard multiple times pleading with officers that he couldn’t breathe. At one point, Muhaymin calls out to Allah for help to which one of the officers responds,…
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Black Family Who Had Phoenix Cop Pull Gun on Them Over 'Stolen Doll' to Receive $475K From the City
Last summer, a Black family was held at gunpoint by Phoenix police after their 4-year-old daughter walked out of a Family Dollar store with a doll. Video of the incident went viral, and the family filed a $10 million suit against the city. Over a year later, the family is expected to receive $475,000 from…
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Nashville Police Break Into Black Woman’s Home During Botched Raid at Wrong Apartment (Sound Familiar?)
The fight against systemic racism in policing was never about any one case. Stories like that of Elijah McClain, George Floyd and Breonna Taylor are but raindrops in a sea of incidents involving Black people and the aggressive tactics used against us by law enforcement. While the Black Lives Matter movement continues to demand justice…
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Texas Department of Public Safety Spent Hundreds of Hours Investigating, Finding and Arresting Black Lives Matter Protesters
The Texas Department of Public Safety responded to police brutality protests and public outcry for police accountability…by spending hundreds of hours investigating, finding and arresting the protesters. The Texas Tribune reports that the DPS has arrested more than a dozen protesters said to be involved in unruly demonstrations in Austin as early as May. The…
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Study Shows Police Killings Haven't Slowed Despite There Being A Whole-Ass Pandemic
A new study has shown that despite the ongoing pandemic, there has not been a significant decrease in fatal police shootings. According to NBC News, a report by the ACLU titled “The Other Epidemic: Fatal Police Shootings in the Time of COVID-19,” shows that through June of this year there had been 511 fatal police…
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Lawyers Believe New Video Proves Caine Rogers Wasn't a Threat to Atlanta Officer During 2016 Shooting
On Tuesday, a new video was released detailing the 2016 shooting death of an unarmed Black man by an Atlanta Police officer. AJC reports that lawyers for Deravis Caine Rogers’ family released the video in an attempt to get the City of Atlanta to settle an ongoing wrongful death lawsuit. The dashcam video shows former…
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3 Mississippi Police Officers Charged With Murder in Death of Elderly Black Man
In Jackson, Miss., three police officers accused of causing the death of a 61-year-old Black man on January 13, 2019, are now charged with second-degree murder. From CNN: Desmond Barney, 31; Lincoln Lampley, 33; and Anthony Fox, 35 were indicted in the January 2019 death of George Robinson, according to court documents filed last week.…
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Georgia State Trooper Arrested on Felony Murder Charges for Fatally Shooting 60-Year-Old Black Man After Traffic Stop
A Georgia State Patrol trooper has been arrested on felony murder charges after he shot and killed a 60-year-old Black man following a traffic stop on August 7. Now, an attorney representing the victim’s family says a civil rights investigation is underway. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that on Friday, the Georgia Bureau of Investigations arrested…