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Archives: Police
The Palmer Raids: When Trump’s Grandfather and Wives could have been Profiled
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Marx said that every great event in history happens twice, the first time as tragedy and the second time as farce. In this…
SC Cop Flips Black Student In Her Desk
Cenk Uygur, Brett Erlich, and Hannah Cranston | (The Young Turks Video) | - - "A cop in South Carolina was called in to deal with an unruly student at a high…
Sandra Bland: Could training Police in Conflict Resolution instead of Force have Saved Her?
By Megan Price | (The Conversation) | - - The disturbing video released earlier this week of the stop and arrest of Sandra Bland highlights once again the excessive and inexcusable use…
America’s “Wars on . . .” have become an unhealthy Addiction
By William J. Astore | (Tomdispatch.com) | - - War on drugs. War on poverty. War in Afghanistan. War in Iraq. War on terror. The biggest mistake in American policy, foreign and domestic, is…
Patterns of Racial Violence in the US: Charleston Shooting wasn’t a “One-Off” Event
By Ethan Zuckerman | (The Conversation) | - - When you read about Dylann Roof, think about the patterns he represents. There’s more than one. Over the next few days, we’re going…
Our Jihadis and Theirs: The Real (Armed) Dangers of American Life
By Tom Engeldhardt | (Tomdispatch.com) | - - Consider this paragraph a holding action on the subject of getting blown away in America. While I write this dispatch, I’m waiting patiently for…
United Nations: “No confidence vote” on America’s Post-9/11 Human Rights Record
By Gustavo Capdevila | (Inter Press Service) | - GENEVA (IPS) - Without the emperor’s clothes, like in the Hans Christian Andersen story, the United States was forced to submit its human…
We’re all Iraqis now: How Bush’s Wars Militarized Baltimore & Ferguson Police
By Michael Gould-Wartofsky | (Tomdispatch.com) | - Last week, as Baltimore braced for renewed protests over the death of Freddie Gray, the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) prepared for battle. With state-of-the-art surveillance…
Iran’s Khamenei weighs in on Baltimore: ‘Hollywood-style Policing’
Elliot Hill and Mark Sovel | (TheLipTV) The anchors debate the following speech from last Sunday of Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in which he contrasted Iranian policing to the "Hollywood-style policing" of…
What the Police Broke in Baltimore (Political Cartoon)
Via MacLeod Cartoons
Baltimore Protests: What The Media Isn’t Showing You
AJ+ | - "Burning buildings, shattered glass, riot police: This looping portrait of Baltimore – on TV and online – has become the defining narrative of protests spurred by the death of…
Thoughts On Freddie Grey Protest by a Young Baltimore Resident
@hotdamnirock | - A call for disciplined protest from a young Baltimore resident with a foul mouth. Warning: Language. h/t Reddit.com Hotdamnirock: "Thoughts On #FreddieGrey Protest"
Tensions Boil Over After Baltimore Police Call Protesters “Lynch Mob”
By Lauren McCauley, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) Demonstrators still seeking answers over the mysterious and troubling death of Freddie Gray, who died of a spinal injury while in the custody of the…
Can Police Who Kill be held Accountable?
By Alba Morales | ( Human Rights Watch) The murder charge against Michael Slager, the South Carolina police officer who fatally shot 50-year-old Walter Scott in the back on April 4, is…
Black Lives Matter: Massive Crowds Protest Racialized Police Brutality in Cities across US
By Lauren McCauley | (Commondreams.org) Thousands marching in New York and Washington D.C. against police brutality, racial profiling and American's broken criminal justice system Adding their voices to the growing call for…
Pundits Blame Eric Garner For His Own Death (TYT Medley of Shame)
Cenk Uygur, The Young Turks | --- "The death of Staten Island man Eric Garner after New York police Officer Daniel Pantaleo put him in a banned choke hold horrified civil rights…