police brutality
Death at the hands of the police – this time in Baltimore
April 21, 2015No city, town or hamlet can any longer feel immune from the devastating news that, once again, a Black man's life has been taken by the police
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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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