Elderly man shoved to ground by Buffalo cops in horrific footage
Two officers from Buffalo police department were suspended late Thursday after footage of them shoving an elderly man spread on social media. The man, who was unarmed and clearly unthreatening to the...
View Article"Law Enforcement" seizes hundreds of coronavirus masks to prevent use by...
The Huffington Post reports that law enforcement has siezed hundreds of coronavirus masks to prevent protestors from wearing them in public. The U.S. Postal Service tracking numbers for the packages...
View ArticleIf you see the police, start recording
T.C. Sottek writes that this week's protests, marked by soaring levels of police violence against demonstrators, show that we have a responsibility to record them when we can. Last night's horrific...
View ArticleJohn Oliver on police brutality
A half-hour special episode on how police in America respond to protests against police brutality: with greater brutality, armed for war. As nationwide protests over the deaths of George Floyd and...
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Justifying police violence, Trump lies about Buffalo man bleeding from ear...
Martin Gugino, 75, hit the pavement and bled from his ear when a Buffalo, NY police officer shoved him violently, without provocation. Martin Gugino is still in the hospital, now in serious but stable...
View ArticleMilitary police un-ironically re-stage the Boston Massacre during anti-police...
On March 5, 1770, militarized law enforcement officers committed a heinous act of state-sponsored violence in front of the Old Boston State House, shooting and murdering an innocent black man named...
View ArticlePolice union leader invites bad cops to work in Florida
Are you a cop so bad you managed to actually get disciplined or charged with crimes for your behavior? Florida needs you! The Brevard County Fraternal Order of Police called on such officers to head...
View ArticleCreator of the Punisher is organizing a Black Lives Matter benefit to reclaim...
Writer Gerry Conway has been vocal for years about the misappropriation of the Punisher, a vigilante murderer superhero he created in 1974 when he wrote Amazing Spider-Man #129: It's disturbing...
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Seattle activists have established a 6-block autonomous zone around an...
On Friday, June 5, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan announced a 30-day ban on police using tear gas. By Sunday night, the police had already broken that rule. Come Monday, the Mayor announced that police...
View ArticlePhilonise Floyd, brother of slain George Floyd, asks U.N. to investigate...
The brother of the late George Floyd has asked the United Nations to investigate police brutality and racial discrimination in the United States. "Black lives do not matter in the United States,"...
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A powerful portrait series of Black Americans killed by police that uses time...
Adrian Brandon is a Seattle-raised and Brooklyn-based visual artist, whose "Stolen" collection was originally displayed at his first public solo show in November 2019 at 263 Bowery in New York. It's...
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North Carolina cop: "We are just going to go out and start slaughtering them...
Three members of the Wilmington Police Department in North Carolina were fired after a supervisor reviewing dashcam footage noticed them eagerly discussing the prospect of race war: "We are just going...
View ArticleGeorge Floyd Justice In Policing Act, Democrats' police reform bill, passes...
The U.S. House of Representatives just got enough votes to pass the George Floyd Justice In Policing Act to reform police practices and address institutional racism throughout America. The vote was...
View ArticleCops charged with murder after tasing man 50 times
Joshua Taylor and Brandon Dingman, two officers with Wilson Police Department in Oklahoma, were charged with second-degree murder after killing a man they tased 50 times. The New York Times reports...
View ArticleNew court documents allegedly connect Breonna Taylor's murder to a massive...
Breonna Taylor was a 26-year-old EMT who was killed by 3 plainclothes police officers who wrongly delivered a no-knock warrant (which is already constitutionally questionable) at her home in the middle...
View ArticleWhat you need to know about police drone surveillance at protests against...
Technology writer Faine Greenwood has a great piece in Slate about the expansion of police drone surveillance fleets. While there are still many, many reasons to worry about abuses of drone technology...
View ArticleInvestigation launched after Allenton cop filmed kneeling on black man's neck
Police in Allentown, Pennsylvania, were filmed brutalizing a black suspect this weekend. One officer knelt on the man's neck, the same form of "restraint" used to kill George Floyd in May. An...
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NPR examines centuries of policing against racial minorities in America
As part of NPR's Throughline podcast episode on the history of racialized policing in America, they created a brief overview with Harvard historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad. Via hosts Ramtin Arablouei...
View ArticleGeorge Floyd bodycams show abusive, gun-toting cops goading him and refusing...
Still not made available to the general public, the bodycam footage from the cops who killed George Floyd shows that they gave no explanation for arresting him, swore at him, pointed a gun at him and...
View ArticleThe Philly cop who brutally pepper sprayed peaceful protestors turned himself in
twitter keeps removing my post showing police brutality in philadelphia yesterday. officers spraying mace point blank in peaceful protesters faces while they sit still and comply. disgusting abuse....
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