Staff at the Lincoln Village Juvenile Detention Center used the Aikido restraint on Gynnya McMillen a day before she was found dead.
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Staff at the Lincoln Village Juvenile Detention Center used the Aikido restraint on Gynnya McMillen a day before she was found dead.
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Stop Mass Incarceration Midwest Regional Conference, Chicago
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Police in Washington state are searching for a man who dropped off a KKK robe and hood at a second-hand clothing store owned by a black woman, Fox13 reports.
Leona Coakley-Spring owns Rags to Riches Consignment, which she opened only a few months ago, in an affluent suburb of Seattle. She was shocked this week when a white man brought in a bag of dresses which also contained the racist attire.
Coakley-Spring believes it was a threat.
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Michelle Alexander speaks candidly to Ford Foundation staff about the state of racial justice in America.
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The Death Philly Cops Won’t Explain: Is Omar Lopez the Next Freddie Gray? https://t.co/P0m278Z49W via @thedailybeast
— Bobby Rivera (@riverarc) January 28, 2016
'#HateCrime evidence': Sikh advocacy group criticizes LA authorities over bus driver attack https://t.co/HcAHZSwYwW pic.twitter.com/kBK8ERZRCa
— RT America (@RT_America) January 15, 2016
There are videos showing shootings that cause my mouth to fall open. They make me sad. Some have brought me to tears. Some have caused me to feel helpless. (Oh God! If I only had the power to resurrect the dead.)
There are no words to describe what I felt when watching the video of the killing of Noel Aguilar. The closest I can come to describing my feelings is when seeing photos of Nazi Germany officers nonchalantly shooting Jewish men, point blank. That was before my time. It was in another country. It was during war.
Noel was 23-years old. What happened to Noel is during my life-time. It happened in my country. There is a war between truth and lies. Certainly, if the truth is told, then just maybe citizens could sigh in relief that justice will be served. But, when there are lies to cover up murder, what can citizens do?
The ACLU of Southern California calls the video “chilling.”
It’s hard to watch, but we must watch. Noel deserves it. As chilling as it is, we must watch.
The backdrop of the story makes the video all the more chilling. It is usual to hear stories of officer involved shootings that allege that the suspect was armed with a gun. In some of those cases, it turns out that the suspect did have a gun. In some cases, it was a toy gun that the officer claimed not being distinguishable from a real gun. In some cases, the officer was at risk. In other cases, no gun was found. In some cases, a cell phone or keys were mistaken for guns.
There are cases where officers or rent-a-cops mistook their guns for tazers. And then, there are cases where officers were simply angry, and used their weapon.
So much death. So many unnecessary deaths.
In this case, one deputy shot his partner, and blamed it on Noel, who was then executed by the wounded officer.
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If you want to help Flint, sign the petition, demand that the federal government take action, and then get involved yourself, wherever you live, so that this doesn’t happen to you — and so that the people we elect know they can no longer break the law as they rule by fiat or indifference. We deserve much better than this.
For a better world,
Michael Moore
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CLANTON, Ala. (TheBlaze/AP) — An investigation is underway in Alabama after a Clanton police officer and a Chilton County deputy shot and killed Michael Lamar Robinson.
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This is a racial killing. Flint MI is 60% black. When u knowingly poison a black city, u r committing a version of genocide #ArrestGovSnyder
— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) December 20, 2015
6 Cleveland police officers fired in connection with 2012 fatal chase https://t.co/ctgEyUqstF pic.twitter.com/CiMQLuR2BA
— CNN (@CNN) January 26, 2016
Minn. cop blames ‘muscle memory’ after dashcam video shows him shooting unarmed driver https://t.co/PleHmViKhn pic.twitter.com/ZeUWh5mLMO
— Raw Story (@RawStory) January 25, 2016