An officer with a history of using his dog to inflict torture is the subject of a federal lawsuit after he allegedly held two men at gunpoint and sicced his K9 on them.
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Hungary border: Police use tear gas on migrants – CNN.com
Hungarian riot police used tear gas and water cannons on migrants at the country’s border with Serbia.
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Family Of #AdaishaMiller Killed While Dancing With Cop Wants Case Reopened
The family of a Detroit woman who was killed when the weapon of an off-duty police officer she was dancing with accidentally discharged are demanding that the case be reopened, reports Huffington Post.
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Unarmed. Black. Police gun killed her.
#SayHerName #AdaishaMiller
#DisarmPolice
Mother Rejects ‘Hush Money’ in Fatal Police Shooting #DarrienHunt #SayHisName
The mother of 22-year-old Darrien Hunt refused a $900,000 settlement, describing the offer as “hush money.”
Darrien Hunt, 22, was shot and killed by police officers in Saratoga Springs, Utah, last September. He was reported to be walking in a shopping mall wearing a Japanese anime costume and carrying a samurai sword.
Four of the six fatal bullets that hit Hunt were from behind.
#DarrienHunt #SayHisName
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James Blake
James Blake (1979- ), a retired American tennis star, was once ranked fourth in the world. He won second place in the 2006 Tennis Masters Cup. He was also named Arthur Ashe Humanitarian of the Year. It was after he heard Arthur Ashe himself speak in Harlem that he knew he wanted to be a tennis player. He dropped out of Harvard to become one.
On September 9th 2015, the New York police (NYPD) threw him to the ground and arrested him
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Imagine if Mr. Blake would have put up a fight to defend himself from this stranger.
Super Slow Motion Camera Shows the Gruesome Reality of Cops’ ‘Less than Lethal’ Tasers
The moment a man is tasered has been caught on camera in super slow motion by YouTube wizards The Slow Mo Guys.
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People in the U.S. are getting tasered to death.
HT @ShaunKing
#NatashaMcKenna died after being tasered 4 times by police with a hood over her head and her hands handcuffed behind her back.
https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/642068208091009024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Woman Says She Endured 8 Days In Psych Ward Because Cops Didn’t Believe BMW Was Hers
NEW YORK — Kamilah Brock says the New York City police sent her to a mental hospital for a hellish eight days, where she was forcefully injected with powerful drugs, essentially because they couldn’t believe a black woman owned a BMW.
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2015 and the U.S. is still oppressing people
There are news reports of oppression in the U.S. every day, and not every incident is reported. I suspect that the majority of incidents are not reported.
Coming Home to Roost: American Militarism, War Culture, and Police Brutality
Man Who Likened Himself To George Zimmerman Found Guilty of Second Degree Murder
by Xena
Twenty-nine year old Lukace Kendle is going to prison. Friday, he was convicted of second-degree murder with a firearm and attempted murder in the June 1, 2012, shooting that killed Kijuan Byrd, 29, and paralyzed Michael Smathers, 38. Kendle faces life behind bars.
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Guns in a racially biased U.S. is a bad idea.
Guns in the U.S. that does not provide universal mental health care is a bad idea.
It doesn’t have to be this way.
#BlackLivesMatter Tweets 9.7
HT @ChuckModi1
Should Be Opening Question of Syllabus in Every White School. #WhiteDenial #WhitePrivilege #WhiteSupremacy
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