police brutality
Family of Tamir Rice launches petition for justice
April 2, 2015"My 12-year-old cousin Tamir Rice was tragically shot to death by Cleveland police on November 22, 2014."
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Why black and brown lives matter for all lives
March 23, 2015On Feb. 20, a police officer shot and killed Mexican national Rubén García Villalpando on the side of a highway outside Dallas.
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Calls grow for investigation into Chicago’s Homan Sq. ‘Gestapo tactics’
March 20, 2015Danny Davis and Richard Boykin join a chorus of voices demanding justice over the "CIA or Gestapo tactics" discovered at Homan Square.
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U.S.: Ferguson police routinely discriminated against African Americans
March 4, 2015An investigation released today finds sweeping patterns of racial bias within the Ferguson, Missouri, police department.
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People lobby for police accountability bill filed in Maryland state legislature
March 2, 2015It's a sign of the effectiveness of protests that have occurred here - as well as nationwide - against police killings of unarmed African Americans.
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