Tag: police brutality

Darius Robinson was pepper-sprayed in the face while being forced into a choke hold with his hands cuffed behind his back. Where is the justice in that?

Joseph Flynn of the Massachusetts State Police and Andrew Monaco of the New Hampshire State Police had been arrested and charged in Simone’s beating.

Videotaping a crime is not a crime. It's a public service. Police harassment of citizens who provide video evidence of police brutality has to stop.

The most effective reforms are the ones that build community trust between citizens and the police that serve them.

The police kill citizens with impunity, and that is exactly how the system is designed to work. The numerous little police states that exist in poor urban areas across the U.S. are models for a system that would enslave all of us.

Recent research has shown cities what works. For starters, hire more female police officers.

“New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s office and the NYPD both recently announced they have launched separate investigations into the off-duty police shooting after reviewing the footage of the incident.”

On Wednesday, prosecutors charged Raja with manslaughter and first-degree attempted murder.

Sen. Bernie Sanders is now openly criticising current Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel for failing Chicago’s public schools and suppressing video evidence of a teenager’s death at the hands of police.

When it comes to people of color, the police make San Francisco “Baghdad by the bay.”