An amateur photographer from Baltimore is being celebrated for his photos taken during the recent demonstrations in the name of Freddie Gray. His images are so touching, in fact, that the 26-year-old’s work is featured on the latest cover of TIME Magazine.
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Carl Dix of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA is co-founder of the Stop Mass incarceration Network. Here he was speaking at a rally on May Day, 2015 held by the ILWU (International Longshore and Warehouse Union) following a shut down of ports in the San Francisco Bay Area in protest of Police Terror.
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Six Baltimore police officers are charged in connection with his death, including one for second-degree murder.
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Kevin filmed Freddie Gray’s fateful arrest, capturing the last moments before a “rough ride” snapped his spine at the hands of Baltimore PD.
Tonight, Kevin Moore and two members of Cop Watch from Ferguson, Missouri – Chad Jackson and Tony White – were arrested tonight, in Baltimore.
Kevin Moore’s footage of Baltimore Police’s actions that day went viral, touching off protests for a week in Baltimore prior to Freddie’s funeral, and have begun sweeping the nation since then.
Kevin claimed that the police had been harassing and intimidating him after he went public with the footage.
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Lt. Brian Rice, who was the first to make eye contact with Freddie Gray, has been suspended twice from the Baltimore police force for personal reasons, including mental health and an protective order.
In 2012, Lt. Brian Rice was hospitalized for a mental health concern. It happens. People have circumstantial and other types of depression and mental health issues. The main thing is that they seek and receive help. Another main thing too, is that they re-evaluate their profession and if necessary, go into another line of work.
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ACLU of California Launches Cellphone App to Preserve Videos of Police encounters http://goodblacknews.org/2015/04/30/aclu-of-california-launches-cellphone-app-to-preserve-videos-of-police/ … pic.twitter.com/3cux6Dm2ys
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Shocking surveillance footage, recently subpoenaed by federal investigators, shows a savage and violent attack on Louisiana man by sheriff’s deputies.
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The oppression is not just the killing of Black people every 22 hours.
There is systemic abuse at all levels.