After celebrating her high school graduation, a teen girl was brutally attacked by a police officer.
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Cop Who’s Being Sued for Assaulting a Woman, Caught on Video Assaulting Same Woman AGAIN
An injured New Jersey woman has been attacked twice by the same cop, and he’s getting away with it.
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Deadly Force, in Black and White
A ProPublica analysis of killings by police shows outsize risk for young black males.
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#BlackOnCampus
#BlackOnCampus (2015) is a Twitter hashtag that went viral this week in the wake of protests against racism at US universities – Yale, Mizzou and, now, at Ithaca College. In all three cases, those in authority refused to face up to the racism at their universities.
Racism at universities is nothing new: PWIs (Predominately White Institutions) have always been racist. First by not admitting Blacks at all, then by making them and other students of colour feel unwelcomed and unsafe, turning a blind eye to the racism they face, writing it off as “isolated incidents”, being “oversensitive” and so on.
Black Twitter weighs in:
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Judge Takes Child from Lesbian Couple, Say She’ll do Better in “Heterosexual Home”
A judge with who is applying personal preferences to the lives of caring people, removed a couple’s baby, claiming she’d be better off with a straight couple.
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No Action Taken: Lack of CBP Accountability in Responding to Complaints of Abuse
Data obtained by the American Immigration Council shine a light on the lack of accountability and transparency which afflicts the U.S. Border Patrol and its parent agency, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
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Words & Cactuses – Part 1 of my “I’m not having such a good time in school” series – Tall N Curly™
By Tall N Curly
These past two weeks alone I got four messages from four girls who all basically asked me the same thing: “How am I going to survive being different.”
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Video Shows Cop Attack a Non-violent 13-yo in School Lobby as His Mom Watched
Another video has surfaced showing the brutal reality that is middle school in a police state.
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3 Children Injured After Police Threw a Flashbang Grenade at them During Search for Drugs
In the search for an illegal substance, FBI agents nearly killed a child as they recklessly flashbanged a house with 3 children inside.
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Horrific Video: Cops Kill Shackled Man with 20 Taser Blasts – 87 Seconds of 50,000 Volts
A ride to the hospital by police proved fatal after 3 cops deployed their tasers on a man, who had not been charged with a crime.
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