Why police reform is not enough
The focus on reforms like improved training doesn’t solve racially biased policing. That’s because of the nature of policing itself.
Never forget, never again
It is not too late to reset. It is never too late to decide to develop and maintain nonviolent discipline to increase chances for success.
6 Atlanta cops charged with assaulting college students on video
Two of the officers were immediately fired for use of excessive force.
Autopsy reports showing George Floyd’s death was a homicide underscore corruption & police impunity
"This happens time and time again.”
Nationwide uprising against failed state triggered by police killings
To achieve the changes we need, people must stay in the streets and connect the problems we face to the demand for systemic changes.
Videos of black people’s killings are sacred—so stop sharing them
Cellphone videos of vigilante violence and fatal police encounters should be viewed with the solemn reserve of lynching photographs.
“America’s moment of reckoning”: Cornel West says nationwide uprising is sign of “empire imploding”
“There is a connection between the seeds that you sow of violence externally and internally.”
Houston police launch investigation into mounted officer trampling protester on video
“We are aware of a video circulating showing one of our mounted patrol horses and a citizen. We are currently reviewing the circumstances behind the incident.”
Eruptions of rage in Minneapolis and across the US over the cop murder of...
The reason these other cities are seeing these uprisings in response to the police murder of George Floyd is because each of these cities has it’s own brutal, militarized police force which regularly abuses black and poor people too.
‘It was murder’: Minneapolis demands charges in police killing of George Floyd, calls to...
Thousands take to the streets of Minneapolis to protest against the police killing of George Floyd.