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Bucks Player Sterling Brown Reaches $750,000 Settlement With City of Milwaukee Over Use of Excessive Force During 2018 Arrest
There seems to be this misplaced belief among Black capitalists that a certain level of success and money will protect you from the racist horrors America was built on (See: Ice Cube, Kanye West, Lil Wayne, any nigga who made a little coin and thought it was a golden ticket to whiteness). Nearly three years…
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Because Police Refuse to Stop Shooting Unarmed Black People, We Now Live In a World Without Professional Sports
I had no intention of watching the game. As a lifelong fan of the Orlando Magic—I still have nightmares of my Dad chasing me around the house with a broom after we got swept in the 1995 NBA Finals—I wanted no parts of the inevitable coup de grâce that would be Wednesday’s Game 5 against…
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Milwaukee Chief of Police Demoted Over Handling of George Floyd Protests
Milwaukee’s chief of police was demoted to captain Thursday due to the way he handled multiple situations, including the protests that happened in the wake of George Floyd’s death. NBC News reports that Milwaukee Police Chief Alfonso Morales was demoted to captain following a unanimous vote by the city’s Fire and Police Commission. Morales joined…
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New Video Shows Cop Stepping on NBA Guard Sterling Brown’s Ankle While Discussing Potential Backlash
New video of the violent arrest of Milwaukee Bucks guard Sterling Brown appears to show one officer stepping on Brown’s ankle while he had already been tased and handcuffed while the officers discussed the backlash around taking down a black NBA player. The new bodycam and squad-car videos obtained by WISN-TV and posted online Sunday…
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The Sterling Brown Video Has Been Released, and I Have a Few Questions for the Milwaukee Police
Before the Milwaukee police released the bodycam footage of the violent arrest and tasing of Milwaukee Bucks rookie Sterling Brown, the city’s Police Department went on a PR campaign to soften the backlash the police knew would be coming once the video was released. Before the tape was released Tuesday, Assistant Police Chief Michael Brunson…
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The Sterling Brown Video Proves Once and for All That There Is No Such Thing as ‘Good Cops’
At 5 years old, I became a victim of excessive use of force when I was brutally attacked by Santa Claus. Perhaps it was my mother who told me this, but I distinctly remember believing as a child that Santa would blow pepper in your eyes if you didn’t go to sleep by a certain…
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Bodycam Footage Shows Milwaukee Police Using Excessive Force Against the NBA’s Sterling Brown for No Reason
On the same day the National Football League decided to obfuscate the real reason its players were kneeling during the national anthem, Milwaukee police released bodycam footage that showed exactly why players have been kneeling during the national anthem. Police continue to abuse their power and use excessive force against black men for no reasons…