“Madison, WI– Dashcam footage was released on Tuesday evening showing the fatal shooting of 19-year-old Tony Robinson by Officer Matt Kenny on March 6. The release of the footage came after a day of protests following the prosecutor announcing no charges will be filed against the officer. This was the second death at the hands of Kenny.”
Source: thefreethoughtproject.com
#BlackLivesMatter
A Florida man died in police custody this week after police shocked him with a Taser, despite being made aware repeatedly of his medical conditions.
Source: thefreethoughtproject.com
The war on drugs is a war on people.
A witness to a police officer’s fatal shooting of Michael Brown last summer in Ferguson, Missouri, has filed a lawsuit alleging that he was wrongly stopped and fired on during the encounter on a city street.
The lawsuit, filed last week by Dorian Johnson, claims that the officer, Darren Wilson, fired at him and Brown as they ran away from him on Aug. 9. The lawsuit claims Wilson targeted him without probable cause.
“Officer Wilson acted with either deliberate indifference and/or reckless disregard toward” Johnson, the lawsuit says.
The suit also cited many of the Departmet of Justice findings, arguing that the city and former Police Chief Thomas Jackson “facilitated, encouraged and/or instigated” biased police behavior, including the “excessive force” used against Brown and Johnson.
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Source: www.msnbc.com
Six Baltimore police officers are charged in connection with his death, including one for second-degree murder.
Source: www.theatlantic.com
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Carl Dix of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA and a co-founder of the Stop Mass Incarceration Network speaks out in Baltimore against the police murder of Freddie Gray and the larger genocide this is part of.
Get involved:
StopMassIncarceration.net
www.RevCom.us
Source: socialaction2014.wordpress.com
genocide
The Baltimore Police Department (BPD) is supposed to maintain law and order in Baltimore, Maryland, a US city not far from Washington, DC. They are supposed to serve and protect and yet the president of the city council says they are more feared than drug dealers.
From 2010 to 2014, according to the ACLU, the BPD killed 31 people.
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Source: abagond.wordpress.com
#BlackLivesMatter
#BaltimoreUprising
#VenusGreen
#TyroneWest
The National Guard was unleashed on Baltimore yesterday to quell unrest following the funeral of 25-year-old Freddie Gray, who died of injuries sustained in police custody. On 12 April, Gray was pinned to the pavement by officers before being loaded into a police van. When he was taken out of it his spine was ‘80 per cent severed’, according to the family’s lawyer. He spent a week in a coma and died on 19 April.
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Source: ushypocrisy.com
In Baltimore, a photojournalist covering protest against police brutality is beaten up by cops http://t.co/3OXxc54bCd
— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) April 26, 2015
Current estimates are that the United States has paid over $10 billion in police misconduct settlements since 2004 w/ over 10,000 killed.
— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) April 27, 2015
This is why we are here today. #FreddieGray pic.twitter.com/M9Wje9Pfsu
— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) April 28, 2015
In a moment like this you're at home worrying abt some fucking televisions, and I'm praying my two Black sons never get killed by the cops.
— Propane Jane (@docrocktex26) April 28, 2015
They not showing this on the news https://t.co/oUPk2ItvC1
— Rastakid25 (@Let_Me_Work) April 27, 2015
"The question is:
America how many times do you need to see a city being burned to the ground to recognize a problem?" @wkamaubell
— DcSlumdog (@DcSlumdog) April 28, 2015
Throughout history, love has often been used as justification for the need to destroy in the interest of reformation #BaltimoreUprising
— T Squared (@PricklyPundit) April 28, 2015
RT @TheRealTayRoc: Smh pic.twitter.com/fXXmGDyBio
— Chalky White (@LogicalHater) April 28, 2015
All Our Sons. Baltimore. #FreddieGray pic.twitter.com/iBHF9s8GXo
— deray mckesson (@deray) April 25, 2015
Colorblind. Baltimore. #FreddieGray pic.twitter.com/PasaQPaalZ
— deray mckesson (@deray) April 25, 2015
Just SOME of the people shot in January 2015. #Justice4Freddie #March2Justice pic.twitter.com/uE4iWbcxEx
— Linda Sarsour (@lsarsour) April 25, 2015
Guilty. #FreddieGray pic.twitter.com/se7sMiOVkC
— deray mckesson (@deray) April 25, 2015
—– WALTER SCOUT )-(ERIC GARNER)-(MIKE BROWN)-TRAYVON MARTIN
– https://t.co/amM9Do68Uw pic.twitter.com/ZRhyGut4bD
— vi stylez 340 (@1775romeo) April 24, 2015
US views of immigrants have changed. Today, 57% say they strengthen the US, up from 31% in '94 http://t.co/plEhYITNhr pic.twitter.com/U9CCKT2IhR
— Mark Hugo Lopez (@mhugolopez) April 24, 2015
Gay student has screwdriver jabbed in face during brawl as principal watches without helping http://t.co/g45hDOtqJx pic.twitter.com/SkM5VO8ylk
— Raw Story (@RawStory) April 23, 2015
"We don't hate the 1%. We hate greed. We hate avarice. We hate moral constipation." @CornelWest @DivestHarvard @350 pic.twitter.com/yqNjAhE9Ir
— Rev. Fred Small (@revfredsmall) April 17, 2015
NEW VIDEO: Unarmed, on phone, riding bike, Dontrell Stephens shot 4x in the back by FL police
http://t.co/VwMOhFutzJ pic.twitter.com/d8xFnHtapT
— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) April 24, 2015
VIDEO:
#ErvinEdwards was arrested for sagging his pants. Tasered to death in his jail cell.
http://t.co/bhoCuLkoCK pic.twitter.com/FXMaxOW57D
— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) April 24, 2015
#FreddieGray Did any witnesses see this maneuver? If yes, they need to report what they saw to the police. pic.twitter.com/HW2KTY7guv
— Judy Melinek M.D. (@drjudymelinek) April 24, 2015
Have Police Merged With The KKK?—Scholar Calls Brutal Cops 'Race Soldiers' for Racism (Video) http://t.co/kF5Dygg73t pic.twitter.com/jdeWrfDJw7
— Ronald Jackson (@ronaldjackson) April 24, 2015
Justice is not an abstract concept. Justice is a living #FreddieGray. Justice is a smiling #RekiaBoyd. Justice is no more death.
— deray mckesson (@deray) April 23, 2015
My talk is live on @TEDTalks. I wrote this after Tamir Rice was killed. #BlackLivesMatter http://t.co/WjyARvcfDw pic.twitter.com/Xg3WrK5kyp
— Clint Smith (@ClintSmithIII) April 23, 2015
Black Liberation. #FreddieGray pic.twitter.com/yG6q7TodKz
— deray mckesson (@deray) April 25, 2015
This is a national epidemic. In cities and states all across America, police are using lethal force on unarmed men and women.
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Source: www.dailykos.com
Stop and Frisk needs to be outlawed.
Cops are HUNTING Black and Latino men. Police officers are HUNTING Black and Latino men.
This is a slow genocide.
#BlackLivesMatter