Truthout spoke with relatives of murdered Black men, who described feeling angry and isolated, their lives left in tatters.
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#TraumaCenterNow
Abuse of Power
#BlackLivesMatter Tweets 6.5
How the mortgage industry “black tax” robbed black #Baltimore of its wealth. @nytopinion http://t.co/GJpRPaQ9We pic.twitter.com/FvFzzTzgLu
— Brent Staples (@BrentNYT) May 31, 2015
Chicago woman and her younger brother stabbed, beaten in racist hate crime http://t.co/li6tgRJ4EQ @adri16
— Viva la causa! (@70torinoman) June 4, 2015
Cops who shot & killed 17-year-old #JessieHernandez will be charged with NOTHING: http://t.co/OhJnYVRsOj pic.twitter.com/EfP8eXxfFU
— Keegan Stephan (@KeeganNYC) June 5, 2015
UPDATE: Sheriff Dept. Concluded That Officer Didn’t Commit Crime When He Killed #TamirRice http://t.co/lJp6gdd89I pic.twitter.com/Vk7Rry89al
— Colorlines.com (@Colorlines) June 5, 2015
One of these countries is not like the others http://t.co/YdlP3W5Xv6 pic.twitter.com/LU1oSiNBgD
— Conrad Hackett (@conradhackett) June 2, 2015
Coroner: College Student’s Death In Police Isolation Cell Ruled Homicide
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A 22-year-old college student found dead in restraints at a Georgia county jail died from several blunt-force injuries to his head and upper body, the coroner who ruled the death a homicide said Thursday.
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Jerry Hough
Jerry Hough (1935- ) is an American political scientist, a professor at Duke University. About to retire, he is no longer holding his tongue on his racist views.
Continue reading, if you want to understand how the doctrine of White Supremacy, ethnocentrism and racism is spread through academia.
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If Only All Police Wore Body Cams? R.I.P. #DillonTaylor
By Xena
All this time that we’ve reported on law enforcement killing unarmed civilians, and there are times I feel overwhelmed because the cases, and knowledge of cases, come faster than I can keep up. Because of new situations almost weekly, if not daily, it’s also difficult to follow-up on cases previously reported.
There are times I feel hopeless because each time we think we have an answer to reduce or stop the number of police involved shootings of unarmed citizens, we find the end result is always up to a human being who listens to the story of the cop who fired the gun. The living have opportunity to say what they thought and felt. The dead do not.
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#DeathByPolice Tweets 6.4
Pressure builds on GOP for police criminal justice reforms ………………………………. http://t.co/A7R2vGEtoD
— DcSlumdog (@DcSlumdog) June 1, 2015
they said they "thought" he "might" do something distructive …. so they put 3 in his back … https://t.co/jWv6y4rCnz
— DcSlumdog (@DcSlumdog) June 3, 2015
This afternoon I will offer an amendment to the CJS appropriations bill to increase funding for police body cameras by $10M.
— Joaquin Castro (@JoaquinCastrotx) June 2, 2015
Police: Amilcar Perez-Lopez was killed for lunging at cops. Autopsy: this is where he was shot http://t.co/H4FMr9hVIT pic.twitter.com/3Tb5mFeaXB
— Jon Swaine (@jonswaine) June 2, 2015
Graphic Body Cam Footage Shows Killer Cop as He Murders Innocent Unarmed #DillonTaylor
Body cam footage from the murder of Dillon Taylor was released in its entirety. It shows the disturbing moments before and after this innocent man was gunned down by police.
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Dillon Taylor looks like he could be my son.
#BlackLivesMatter Tweets 6.3
14. What would you think if you learned someone shot/injured your most precious loved one and acted like it didn't matter afterwards?
— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) June 2, 2015
16. From coast to coast, in nearly ever prominent case we know of, the evidence shows police refused first aid to their victims.
— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) June 2, 2015
Harrowing read on what is the true intent of police refusing medical aid to their victims by @ShaunKing https://t.co/VtQz5quoJX
— Marcelo Careaga (@MarceloCareaga) June 2, 2015
I didn't put my hands on him. Me & my comrades were walking on the sidewalk & the cop ran toward me & pushed me with his taser in my chest.
— #FergusonSpring (@EmmaculateJones) May 31, 2015
I attempted to jump around from the front of his taser that was on my chest and walk around him, then the officer tased me in my lower back
— #FergusonSpring (@EmmaculateJones) May 31, 2015
Continuously even after i had already fell, then shoved my head on the pavement with his foot.
— #FergusonSpring (@EmmaculateJones) May 31, 2015
#Chicago cop posed in photo of armed cops holding down Blk man wearing antlers. He did it cuz he wanted 2 fit in! http://t.co/0x88KtcZCt
— Carl Dix (@Carl_Dix) June 2, 2015
"A condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak. Conformity has trumped courage." -Cornell West #NACRJ2015 pic.twitter.com/xLjdusfEGD
— Azalia (@AzaliaSpeight) June 1, 2015
Police Deleted Over an Hour of Video Showing them Shooting Teen 16 Times, 9 Times in the Back
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…
Source: thefreethoughtproject.com
#DeathByPolice Tweets 6.2
25 Numbers That Show Police Killings Are A Bigger Problem Than We Ever Knew http://t.co/fQVaiQQPvJ #IntelGroup
— Intel Group (@AnonIntelGroup) June 2, 2015
Justice is not an abstract concept. Justice is a living #FreddieGray. Justice is a smiling #TamirRice. Justice is no more death.
— deray mckesson (@deray) June 1, 2015
They shot my best friend dead in the street at 7:30pm. #justice4Feras #hewasunarmed
— Fobes (@ryanfobes) May 31, 2015
Police killed 1,144 people in 2013. That's 7% of 16,121 US homicides that year.
(Source: http://t.co/f0GwfHMHQH and http://t.co/g0gvubpIpT)
— deray mckesson (@deray) June 1, 2015
Oklahoma State Troopers killed a white pastor from Tulsa after saving him from a flood. http://t.co/pK7EBNtpdn pic.twitter.com/wot8aSFd7c
— TC (@tchopstl) June 1, 2015
This has to stop – almost 400 people have been killed by police in America this year: http://t.co/7M9p6M49YC pic.twitter.com/mltU9Kxa4C
— EBONY (@EBONYMag) June 1, 2015