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(Washington, D.C.) — The District of Columbia can publicly release body-worn camera recordings and names of officers who kill or inflict violence on civilians that the...
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Indigenous leaders around California have released a list of demands related to police shootings in Salinas, which led to the death of 19-year-old Gerald Martinez--shown...
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The New York Police Department has been training its officers to break a long-standing law that bars police from snooping in the sealed arrest records of millions of innocent...
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Christina Swarns, executive director of the Innocence Project says the death penalty disproportionately harms people of color with intellectual disabilities like Pervis...
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The centuries-old American tradition of police shooting and killing Black males suffered an untraditional jolt in April when former cop Derek Chauvin was found guilty and...
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Dylan Cannon shown above with the knee of a state-sponsored brutalizer, in Louisiana, on his Black neck.
A mother in Baton Rouge, Louisiana has filed a federal...
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Hunter Brittain's unjustified killing by police has been denounced by Rev. Al Sharpton and lawyer Ben Crump.
It was 3 a.m. on a dark stretch of rural highway, and...
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The People's Organization For Progress (POP) will have a press conference to demand justice for the Rodwell/Spivey brothers who were arrested by Newark police.
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Today would be Ida B. Wells’ 159th birthday, so we want to take some time to talk about the civil rights icon and share the story of how she risked her life to help...
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DENVER (AP) — Sgt. Keith Wrede, a Colorado Springs police officer disciplined for saying “Kill them all” during a livestream of a racial injustice protest in...
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Standing in the lobby of Collin County Courthouse, LaSandra Scott didn’t hold anything back. Her son Marvin Scott III had been “killed by his jailers,” she said. “They...
(CNN--The White man who authorities say shot and killed a Black Air Force veteran (above right) and a retired Black state trooper (above left) in Winthrop, Massachusetts, last month carried "hate...
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A St. Louis police SWAT team shot and killed a Black man in 2017 during a "no-knock" raid at his home based on false information, according to a lawsuit filed by his family...
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The Baltimore Police Department (BPD) destroyed the personal property of a murder victim, denying his family the opportunity to collect his belongings, in violation of...
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In Minneapolis, Darnella Frazier — the teenager (above left) whose recording of George Floyd’s murder was seen around the world — says her uncle (on right) was struck and...
Milton, are you denying or finding it insignificant that the TPLF attacked a federal army base...
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