In July, 51-year-old Marlene Pinnock was walking on the side of a California highway when aCalifornia Highway Patrol officer threw her to the ground and began brutally beating her in the face. That officer, Daniel Andrew, has not been subject to any disciplinary action but he has been placed on “non road patrol duty”, and CHP says its investigation is ongoing.
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Following the shooting of 18-year-old man by a police officer in the city of Ferguson, Missouri, an outraged community gathered to demand answers. Michael Brown, a black teen and recent high school graduate, was shot dead in the city north of St. Louis on Saturday. The victim’s grandmother said she found her grandson’s body in the street, shortly after seeing him walking near her home, the Associated Press reports. A spokesman for the St. Louis County Police Department confirmed that a Ferguson police officer shot the man, but provided no further details on why the shooting occurred. Witnesses said that Brown was unarmed, KMOV reports.
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New data from the EEOC show that pregnancy discrimination hits virtually every industry and every geographic area of the country.
Source: www.washingtonpost.com
STATESVILLE, N.C. — The parents of a 4-week-old child that died after being left in a hot car are now facing charges, according to the Statesville Police Department. WSOC-TV reported that the famil…
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This is how the US criminal justice system works. If you are black you are assumed guilty – as if they did this on purpose. It’s bad enough that they lost their baby, now their other children have been taken away.
When you hear that laws are made to oppress, here is the example. How often do white people lose their other children when they accidentally leave their newborn in the car?
PS – Why does WSOC-TV use the word ‘its’ in the first paragraph when they should have used the word ‘they’???
“…the family returned to its home…”
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A Michigan man accused of gunning down Renisha McBride took the stand in his own defense Monday.
Source: www.cnn.com
Trigger happy United States.
Jails and prisons without air conditioning can be uncomfortable for both prisoners and guards. But for inmates with health conditions that make them heat-sensitive, hot cells can pose serious risks.
Source: www.npr.org
Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century
Dorothy Roberts, an acclaimed scholar of race, gender and the law.
“Every time there is a census there is a different definition of race.”
-Dorothy Roberts
Source: www.blogtalkradio.com
‘No one ever said that the goal was full integration of these populations,’ David Von Spreckelsen…’
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The persistence of segregation.
Silence is a racial message and a “tool of whiteness.” In order to support the goals of their diversity mission statements and work toward a “racially just America,” schools need to take a more proactive approach to teaching white students about race and racial identity.
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Students must develop a sense of how systemic racism works on an individual, community, and institutional level.
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Source: www.nais.org
Many white people do not have an urgency about racial injustice.
Many white people live in segregated communities where they do not see racial injustice. Unless people tune into the right media channels, they are not going to have a feeling for the insidiousness of racial injustice.
Eric Garner (1971?-2014), an American street vendor, beloved husband and 43-year-old father of six, became yet another unarmed Black man killed by the New York City police (NYPD) on July 17th 2014. His crime: selling untaxed cigarettes.
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The police have taken officers Pantaleo and Justin Damico off the street. They took Pantaleo’s badge and gun. No charges, no arrests.
The hospital takes it a bit more seriously: the four ambulance workers are suspended without pay.
Mayor de Blasio finds the Garner case “very troubling” and promises a “thorough investigation”.
The coroner has yet to report the official cause of death.
There have been at least two protests so far.
Today is his funeral.
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