“I looked down like this and saw their red light right here on my baby’s back. They told me to get back or they’ll shoot.” Residents of the Countryside mobile home park in Fargo, ND have expressed concerns over racial profiling and police misconduct for some time. A recent cellphone video has captured a brutal…
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Filmmaker Spike Lee speaks exclusively to CNN’s Anderson Cooper about the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.
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While an anonymous group lay red roses where Michael Brown was killed in front of the Canfield Green apartments in Ferguson, his mother Lesley McSpadden showed up; spotted walking through the neighborhood to the impromptu vigil surrounded by residents and journalists. This, as a grand jury weighs evidence on whether to charge Darren Wilson in the case.
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A professor at Seattle Pacific University recently told me that she requires her students to read Peggy McIntosh’s essay, White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack.
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educating students cannot simply stop with an acknowledgment about the unearned advantages that Whites have, but educators must also provide a narrative from the opposite viewpoint and a history about what had to happen in order to allow for hierarchies and such privileges. -Angela Tucker
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St. Louis police shot and killed a young African-American man Tuesday after authorities say he brandished a knife.
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Henry Davis (c. 1957- ), an American welder, was beat up by the police in Ferguson, Missouri in 2009. After that they charged him with “damage of property” for getting blood on their uniforms.
Davis is not from Ferguson. He pulled off the road there in the middle of the night to wait out bad weather. It was raining so hard he could barely see.
The police approached his car. They took his phone from his hand, put on hand cuffs and took him to the police station. They did not say why.
At the station the police found out that he was the wrong Henry Davis – the one they were looking for had a different middle name.
Instead of letting him go, they threw him in jail and beat him up while hand-cuffed. Then they charged him with bleeding on their uniforms:
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The family of an 8-year-old Native American girl who was tazed by police in October is suing while the Pierre Police Department say it was justified.
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Authorities are investigating the death of a Victorville man after deputies used a Taser stun gun to take him into custody.
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Just a few short miles from where police officer Darren Wilson publicly executed 18 year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, police officers have shot and killed yet another Black man dead in the street.
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