Tag: police brutality
Outrage and calls for justice after Sonya Massey’s fatal shooting by...
Campaigners and political leaders across the United States respond with outrage and calls for justice after the release of body camera footage showing the deadly police shooting of Sonya Massey, an unarmed 36-year-old Black woman from Springfield, Illinois.
Looking up an NYPD officer’s discipline record? Many are there one...
Cases against officers frequently vanish for days—sometimes weeks—at a time.
Violent arrest of Emory Professor spotlights brutality of police crackdown on...
Emory University incident raises alarms: Academic community questions police response to peaceful campus protests amid growing national debate on academic freedom and civil liberties.
A leap towards justice: The nationwide call to end no-knock warrants
Four years after Breonna Taylor's tragic death, a bipartisan effort emerges to transform police protocol and honor her legacy by proposing a nationwide ban on no-knock warrants.
Atlanta’s legal showdown over the ‘Stop Cop City’ movement
A critical legal battle unfolds as Atlanta seeks to overturn a ruling allowing nonresidents to participate in a controversial referendum on a police training center.
UN report exposes alarming U.S. human rights violations, urges immediate reforms
"Systemic racism and injustice": UN slams U.S. for widespread human rights breaches.
Who gets to talk about how police need to change?
A FAIR study of NYT coverage from George Floyd to Tyre Nichols
Cop city coverage fails to question narratives of militarized police
The story of Tortuguita’s death is about protests against militarized policing being met with more militarized policing, which ultimately resulted in a fatal shooting.
‘Just the next step’ toward justice for Tyre Nichols: Memphis police...
Attorneys for Nichols' family called the move "appropriate and proportional" in response to his death and urged other cities to follow suit but also stressed that "misconduct is not restricted to these specialty units."
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Norway reaches historic milestone as electric vehicles outnumber petrol cars for the first time
Norway’s rapid transition to electric vehicles, a global first, shows the impact of policy incentives and ambitious climate goals, setting the pace for the rest of the world.
Trump-appointed judges continue assault on workers’ rights by undermining NLRB
In a move that could reshape labor rights across the country, these judges are granting preliminary injunctions to companies that argue the NLRB’s structure violates the U.S. Constitution.
Sisyphus Trump maniacally replays 2015, with repeated, inflammatory media blitzes. But that gambit...
How many unforced errors—the Arlington cemetery mess, JD Vance, fake Ohio pet-napping and Loomer—confirm Trump as monumental scatterbrain?
Forests thrive when Indigenous people have legal stewardship of their land
The fate of intact forests is closely linked to that of Indigenous peoples.
Bernie Sanders calls out Big Pharma over exorbitant drug prices: Novo Nordisk’s $900+...
As Novo Nordisk rakes in billions, Sen. Bernie Sanders and public health advocates demand answers on why U.S. patients are charged sky-high prices for life-saving drugs like Ozempic while generics could sell for a fraction of the cost.