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Samantha Power

 

Samantha Power (1970- ) has been the US ambassador to the United Nations since 2013, succeeding Susan Rice. She has long been a top adviser to Barack Obama on foreign policy. She won a Pulitzer Prize for her book “A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide” (2002). She was a professor at Harvard’s Carr Center for Human Rights.

 

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Source: abagond.wordpress.com

 

Interesting article on the complexities of mixing real world politics and self interest with real world human rights.

 

Reminds me of Dr. MLK’s quote of each of us having both good and bad qualities.

 

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Fatal Shooting of Black Teen (age 18) by White Officer in Berkeley, Missouri Sparks Clashes [VIDEO]

 

A white police officer shot a black teenager to death at a gas station in the city next door to Ferguson, Missouri, touching off clashes early Wednesday between demonstrators and law enforcement.

The mayor said that video from the confrontation, in the city of Berkeley, appeared to show the teenager pointing a gun at the officer, and police said a handgun was recovered at the scene. Police said the officer feared for his life.

“This was not the same as Ferguson,” Mayor Theodore Hoskins said.

He took pains to say that the shooting could not be compared to the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson or to the chokehold death of Eric Garner in New York. The mayor, who is black, pointed out that the Berkeley police department is majority-black.

He promised a thorough investigation but said that the video showed it was not a police officer going off “half-cocked.”

“Everybody don’t die the same,” he told reporters. “Some people die because the policeman initiated. Some people die because they initiated it. And at this point, our review indicates that the police did not initiate this, like Ferguson.”

Source: www.nbcnews.com

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Unarmed #DontreHamilton shot 14 times by cop Christopher Manney

 

MILWAUKEE (WITI) — New information has been released in the case of Dontre Hamilton, the 31-year-old man shot and killed by a Milwaukee police officer inside Red Arrow Park in Milwaukee in April. The attorney for Dontre Hamilton’s family on Monday, December 1st released Dontre Hamilton’s autopsy report, toxicology report and cause of death — documents from the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office that are now public for the first time.

 

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Source: fox6now.com

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High school student dragged to swimming pool by teacher speaks out

Garcia’s attorney says Peterson should not have put a hand on the girl. The video shows he even asks other students to help him: “somebody tickle her,” he is heard saying in the 95-second video.

“No means no and stop means stop. This isn’t a situation where she’s attacking a teacher and he’s defending himself. When a woman or a 14-year-old girl says no, it means no,” he said.

Source: latino.foxnews.com

 

If I find a teacher treating my child like that – there will be hell to pay.

 

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Infographics on Chicago Torture by Police

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24-year-old man dead in Sanford officer-involved shooting – Dec 10, 2014

SANFORD, N.C. –

The family of a 24-year-old Sanford man said police fatally shot the man Wednesday when officers attempted to serve a warrant.

Family members of Travis Faison told WNCN that Faison was shot by an officer Wednesday at a home in the 600 block of Magnolia Street in Sanford when police attempted to serve a warrant at the address.

Sanford police confirmed through a release a man died in an officer-involved shooting around 1:40 p.m. on Magnolia Street.

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Source: www.wncn.com

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