policing
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White Ohio Cop Fired for Detaining Daughter’s Black Boyfriend for No Reason: ‘We’ll Make Shit Up as We Go’
It seems too on the nose: a cop admitting, on camera, that he’ll make up charges on a young black motorist he’s just pulled over. It’s the sort of thing a white person might see on TV and say, “Oh, I just don’t know if that’s realistic.” But that’s exactly what a Lorain, Ohio, police…
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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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DC Police Now Have to Learn Black History. Will It Curb Brutality?
On Friday morning, on the steps of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel E. Bowser announced that D.C. police officers will be required to take a critical-race-theory program. “We are committed to accountability,” Bowser told reporters, “to strengthen the bonds of trust between MPD and our residents.” As…
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In HBO’s Problem Areas, Wyatt Cenac Explores Policing and Leaves Trump to Everyone Else
When Wyatt Cenac unveiled his new late-night show, Problem Areas, at HBO’s New York City headquarters in midtown Manhattan last week, he wore a knit cardigan. From the front, it looked like a regular-ass knit sweater, the sort of soft, thick clothing appropriate for this year’s excessively chilly spring. It wasn’t until Cenac, after entertaining…
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#GenForward: Majority of White Millennials Believe Black Lives Matter Encourages Violence Against Police
The majority of black millennials in the United States wanted Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to be their next president, but since he’s out of the race, 60 percent of black millennials said they would vote for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton if the general election were held today. Why? Because 78 percent of black millennials believe Clinton to be qualified to hold…
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Baltimore’s Reaction to the DOJ Report: ‘Well, Duh’
The only people who weren’t surprised by the 164-page Department of Justice report on the Baltimore Police Department’s rampant brutality were black residents of Baltimore City whose protests and complaints have fallen on deaf ears for years. “The phrase ‘a few bad apples’ should now be banished from conversations about law enforcement in Baltimore,” said the…