Month: October 2014

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Events planned for first anniversary of Andy Lopez killing – Oct 22, 2013 – Santa Rosa, CA

SONOMA COUNTY, Calif. — Sonoma County residents are preparing several events to mark the one-year anniversary of the killing of 13-year-old Andy Lopez by a county sheriff’s deputy on Oct. 22, 2013.

Community members plan to attend a 6 p.m. meeting Monday in Santa Rosa of the Community and Local Law Enforcement Task Force, which was established by the county Board of Supervisors following the shooting of Andy by Deputy Erick Gelhaus, who believed the airsoft rifle the teen was carrying was an AK-47 rifle.

 

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Source: www.ktvu.com

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Cornel West, Faith Leaders and Activists Arrested as Ferguson October Continues [VIDEO]

Twenty people, including Cornel West, are arrested carrying out civil disobedience at the Ferguson police station after being denied a meeting with local officials

 

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Source: therealnews.com

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STOP Police Terror, Mass Incarceration, Repression, and the Criminalization of Generations!

 

The Revolution Club Bay Area, the Stop Mass Incarceration Network, and “Uncle Bobby” call on YOU to be part of a national month of resistance against police terror, mass incarceration, repression, and the criminalization of generations.

 

Learn more at

stopmassincarceration.net

 

Source: www.youtube.com

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Hundreds Join Missouri Protest Of Police Shootings

 

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Hundreds of people protesting the death of Michael Brown and other fatal police shootings in Missouri and elsewhere stood inches from officers in riot gear late Friday before demonstrators dissipated, anticipating a long weekend of events.

 

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A CNN Lawyer Has Had Enough With Her Ignorant Co-Host. She Tells It EXACTLY How It Is.

This is somehow both shocking and unsurprising.

Source: www.upworthy.com

 

White people are always saying it’s not about race.

 

They have no proof that it’s not about race.

 

I think it clearly IS about race.

 

I been given a FREE PASS as a white person when dealing with the police. And even more so during a stop when he saw my daughter in the back seat.

 

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Young Black Men 21 Times Likelier To Be Shot Dead By Police Than White Peers

 

Young black males in recent years were at a far greater risk of being shot dead by police than their white counterparts – 21 times greater, according to a ProPublica analysis of federally collected data on fatal police shootings.

 

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Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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Does race shape Americans’ passion for guns?

 

You can’t talk about guns in America without talking about race, scholars say

 

Source: www.cnn.com

 

The fear of men of color with guns started early in America with the slaughter of Native-Americans and the oppression of enslaved Africans.