Chicago, Illinois – As more details come to light about the death of 17-year old Laquan McDonald, the more it seems that the Chicago police department is involved in a massive cover-up. On the night of October 20, 2014 McDonald was shot sixteen times by Chicago police officers. McDonald was gunned down near a Burger…
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Longbeach police shot and killed 20-year-old Feras Morad after he jumped through a window and severely injured himself.
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Another unarmed person shot by police. America.
Statistics about fatal police shootings are notoriously hard to come by, so the Washington Post started counting this year. The result is an analysis of 385 fatal police shootings — more than 2 per day — around the nation during the first 5 months of 2015. Reports the
Post:
About half the victims were white, half minority. But the demographics shifted sharply among the unarmed victims, two-thirds of whom were black or Hispanic. Overall, blacks were killed at three times the rate of whites or other minorities when adjusting by the population of the census tracts where the shootings occurred.
And if you’re wondering if any of those fatal shootings produced charges against an officer, here’s what the newspaper found: only 3 resulted in an officer being charged with a crime — less than 1 percent of the total number of cases nationwide.
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(CNN) A simple request for an unopened can of Diet Coke on a United Airlines flight left Tahera Ahmad in tears.
A Muslim chaplain and director of interfaith engagement at Northwestern University, Ahmad, 31, was traveling Friday from Chicago to Washington for a conference promoting dialogue between Israeli and Palestinian youth. She was wearing a headscarf, or hijab.
For hygienic reasons, she asked for an unopened can of soda, she said. The flight attendant told her that she could not give her one but then handed an unopened can of beer to a man seated nearby. Ahmad questioned the flight attendant.
“We are unauthorized to give unopened cans to people because they may use it as a weapon on the plane,” she recalled the flight attendant telling her.
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“I need you to roll down the window for my safety!” May 14, 2014 A Police Officer’s Body Cam captured his severe over reaction on film. On September 4, 2013, University of Central Florida (UCF) college student Victoria King was pulled over by UCFPD Officer Timothy Isaacs for a minor traffic offense – a bad…
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Dozens of people have gathered for a provocative rally in front of the Islamic Community Center in Phoenix, Arizona, staged during Friday prayers. Anti-Islam event organizers encouraged participant…
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A Virginia cop has resigned after his body camera captured him assaulting a man during a medical emergency.
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Recent US protests are part of a growing movement against systemic racism, including the looting of Black wealth and violence against Black people.
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The Black Spring (2014- ) is the name some give to the current protests in the US by Blacks and others, especially those against police brutality.
It gets its name from how it is oddly like the Arab Spring of 2011 in
Egypt and elsewhere:
There is a difference, though: in the US the protesters in Egypt were seen asheroes, while protesters in the US are ignored or called “thugs”, even by a Black president.
I date the beginning of the Black Spring to Ferguson in 2014. There were protests before that, like for Rekia Boyd and Kimani Gray, and huge ones for Trayvon Martin.
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