(CNN)Gunshots fired into a mosque in Connecticut. Armed men protesting the “Islamization of America” outside Islamic centers in Texas. Death threats called in to mosques in Florida, Maryland and Virginia.
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New Video Shows Chicago Cop Shoot #RonaldJohnson in the Back Twice Killing him #blacklivesmatter #policeterror https://t.co/xUk8qt4uF1
— TrueBlackNews (@trueblacknews) December 7, 2015
Chicago PD: No Charges for Cop Who Killed Ronald Johnson https://t.co/Rij283PpHJ pic.twitter.com/D3vs0ceg32
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) December 7, 2015
If we want to change our communities we cannot continue to close schools and fill prisons. We need #CJreform now. https://t.co/0SjnBQSgjP
— TalkPoverty.org (@TalkPoverty) December 7, 2015
Head of Chicago's Independent Police Review Authority steps down https://t.co/K3tNcFq8dm
— NBC Chicago (@nbcchicago) December 7, 2015
RT @atlantic: Minority girls 2x as likely as white girls to be incarcerated: https://t.co/tZSTBhrfiE #race #CJReform pic.twitter.com/WHlppP4nfi
— Scott Greenberger (@sgreenberger) December 7, 2015
Police abuse complaints by black Chicagoans dismissed nearly 99 percent of the time https://t.co/i8cjHSRazW pic.twitter.com/VY8UDkUMng
— HuffPost Graphics (@HuffPostGraphic) December 7, 2015
Ten men filed a complaint against an immigration detention center in California this week, alleging physical abuse, medical neglect, and retaliatory transfers while they were detainees.
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Mental illness is no longer treated by health professionals, but criminalized by the police, a report found. Continue reading
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Holtzclaw was charged with 36 counts of rape, forcible oral sodomy, burglary and other charges.
Shortly after 9 p.m. ET this evening, the jury returned guilty verdicts. It was their fourth day of deliberations. Holtzclaw was not found guilty on some counts, but he was found guilty of enough counts to spend the rest of his life in prison.
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Andy Lopez case: exclusive interview with Attorney Arnoldo Casillas, representing the Lopez family, hearing took place in U.S. District Court Dec. 9th, 2015 in Oakland. Interview by Francisco Lozano. Video Copyrights Francisco Lozano/KBBF 89.1 fm.
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#Justice4AndyLopez #LatinosAreHuman
Please Retweet! Recorded from my phone. Let's make this go viral pic.twitter.com/AnLbjPo8ai
— Christian (@krispyyyxchris) December 3, 2015
His name was #MarioWoods & there's another vid shot from different angle that's even more horrific. WTF America? https://t.co/DDNGQ96Oq4
— Anne Pickering (@CatchlightAnne) December 4, 2015
"If cops in England asked for armed backup for this situation they'd be laughed" #mariowoods pic.twitter.com/BbXhDNLqim
— Anti Police-Terror (@APTPaction) December 5, 2015
#MarioWoods was the 307th black person killed by police this year. https://t.co/vqURbJHXRj pic.twitter.com/mCCcdJR3X4
— Samuel Sinyangwe (@samswey) December 4, 2015
State employee investigated after allegedly hitting, throwing coffee on praying Muslim man
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#Xenophobia
“It’s time to call out the U.S.A.,” Tim Fischer said.
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HT Steven Riley @mixed_race
We decide how much violence and murder is acceptable. Our culture, U.S. culture decides. – @getgln