In the last five years, three Mexican teenagers have been shot dead by Border Patrol agents
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School Cop “Acted Within Policy” When He Choked & Body Slammed a 14-yo Boy on Video
Round Rock, TX — A decision to clear a cop of all wrongdoing after he choked out and body slammed a 14-year-old boy has the community up in arms.
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#MarioWoods Tweets 12.14
#MARIOWOODS FULL 2 MINUTE EXECUTION VIDEO RELEASED:
https://t.co/ITZBZ2eD7A
@SFPD = KILLERS
#JusticeForMarioWoods
— JUSTICE MARIO WOODS (@occupythebay13) December 12, 2015
SF school kids march in protest of police shooting of #MarioWoods https://t.co/9crlQi80vX pic.twitter.com/5CBeUQ5LZX
— SF Examiner (@sfexaminer) December 12, 2015
NEW VIDEO: #Mariowoods appears to not have threatened officers before he was killed. https://t.co/l9mxfZxaCm pic.twitter.com/wlV8MyOfNp
— SF Examiner (@sfexaminer) December 11, 2015
Atty says he has new video that confirms @KQEDnews analysis that chief's account of #MarioWoods shooting is "bogus" https://t.co/2EolN0wKMK
— Vivian Ho (@VivianHo) December 11, 2015
.@BerkeleyLawNews expert on #MarioWoods: unnecessary killings by police are an American epidemic. https://t.co/94jXUA40Jl
— Vivian Ho (@VivianHo) December 11, 2015
Story from tonight's meeting: Chief must answer for #MarioWoods' death, crowd says https://t.co/fN5plBLYyr
— Vivian Ho (@VivianHo) December 10, 2015
After killing of #MarioWoods, Mayor Ed Lee says San Francisco isn't "that kind of city." He's wrong. https://t.co/T3z2XCmZEl
— Julia Carrie Wong (@juliacarriew) December 10, 2015
I'm at the bus stop & I turned around & realized where I'm at RIP #MarioWoods pic.twitter.com/HsrRVtxX23
— • (@SS_PRHYME) December 10, 2015
#MarioWoods pic.twitter.com/C6AvvClHUF
— Mir (@Moneymirweather) December 12, 2015
Privatization and Policing “Black Colonies”: the Death of Alonzo Smith
Pan-African Community Action (PACA) convened a rally in Washington, D.C. Saturday to call for answers in the death of Alonzo Smith while in private police custody
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#Decolonize and stop the oppression
The assistant warden who got too close to the prisoners | Miami Herald
Marty Martinez was ousted as assistant warden of Lowell after an investigation found he had inappropriate interactions with inmates.
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Beyond Punishment | A Miami Herald investigation
The Miami Herald continues to blow the Florida Department of Corrections wide open with their newest investigative series. I-Team investigation into corruption and sexual abuse in the largest women’s prison in the nation, Lowell Correctional.
Thanks to Journalists Julie K. Brown & Emily Michot
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Man Charged with hate crime for fire bombing Mosque in Coachella, CA
COACHELLA, Calif. –
Update Saturday 1:45 p.m. Riverside County Jail Records show 23-year-old Carl James Dial was booked into the Indio jail at 1.46 a.m for several felony charges including arson and a hate crime.
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“I’m going to rape your f*****g mother” NY Police Chief Finally Arrested for Brutal Act of Torture
Suffolk County, NY — James Burke, formerly the Chief of one of the largest police departments in the country, found himself handcuffed and facing federal civil rights charges on December 9th, reports the New York Times. Burke’s arrest follows a lengthy investigation into allegations of torture, assault, subornation of perjury, and corruption in a case involving convicted thief Christopher Loeb.
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Cop “Lost” 15 Seconds of Video Showing the Moment He Killed His 2nd Unarmed Victim in 4 Years
This past April, 18-year-old William Chapman II was killed by Portsmouth police officer Stephen Rankin, as he attempted to flee a Wal-Mart after shoplifting. Rankin first discharged his taser on Chapman, and then ended up shooting him in the following scuffle.
The shooting occurred nearly four years after Rankin shot another unarmed man who he claimed was reaching towards his waist before charging at the officer. A grand jury cleared Rankin of the 2011 shooting even though he shot 26-year-old Kirill Denyakin 11 times, and no other weapon was recovered from the scene.
“The video was operational up until just before the shooting, and then it was not operational for about 15 seconds,” Attorney Jon Babineau told Pilot Online.
The footage shows Rankin holding the taser and then cuts out. When the footage returns the incident was over, and the taser was laying on the ground.
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#SayHisName #WilliamChapman #KirillDenyakin
Threats, harassment, vandalism at mosques reach record – CNN.com
(CNN)Gunshots fired into a mosque in Connecticut. Armed men protesting the “Islamization of America” outside Islamic centers in Texas. Death threats called in to mosques in Florida, Maryland and Virginia.
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