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Progress. Now, they need to turn the cameras on – for every encounter.
Discovery of up to 50 bodies in truck highlights European migrant crisis
Austrian authorities launched an international probe into the deaths, as they struggled to count the corpses.
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Freedom to (im)migrate.
Freedom to leave.
Freedom to return.
Freedom of movement.
#GunViolence #GunReform Tweets 9.1
RT @mr_kennethcole: Over 40 Mil Americans suffer from mental illness. SOME can access care ALL can access guns. pic.twitter.com/9KDJYgS5WV
— jamalbryant (@jamalhbryant) August 28, 2015
@es_snipes Sheriff attacks “BlackLivesMatter” instead of the need for “Gun Control” http://t.co/JMrgfi9VmZ pic.twitter.com/kIsC9TXrjt
— BLEAUSA (@BLEAUSA) August 31, 2015
John Oliver on gun safety pic.twitter.com/kUajmntHe1
— Safer Reefer (@saferreefer) August 31, 2015
#GilbertFlores shot while #HandsUp #LatinosAreHuman [VIDEO]
The unedited version of a video obtained by KSAT 12 News showing the fatal shooting of a man by two Bexar County sheriff deputies will now be made available for online viewing.
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This is genocide.
Disarm the police.
Frazier Glenn Cross guilty in Jewish center shootings
Frazier Glenn Cross, accused of killing three people at a Kansas Jewish community center and nearby assisted living facility, is convicted of capital murder.
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#BlackLivesMatter Tweets 8.31
IMPORTANT READ: Exclusion of Blacks From Juries Raises Renewed Scrutiny http://t.co/AAlJea7GT4
— deray mckesson (@deray) August 31, 2015
"When you see us smiling it's because we're glad to know that your child is still alive." – Ron Davis, Father of #JordanDavis
— Erika Totten (@2LiveUnchained) August 29, 2015
#BlackLivesMatter & the killing of "innocent bystander" #FelixKumi by the NYPD last Friday: http://t.co/GBmidDP9w2 pic.twitter.com/AiY8TECGAo
— Occupy Wall Street (@OccupyWallStNYC) August 31, 2015
California Voters Want Policing Reforms That Politicians Won't Deliver http://t.co/BRA7VULLDq
— deray mckesson (@deray) August 30, 2015
Young black man jailed since April for alleged $5 theft found dead in cell http://t.co/Hq9fylpPTQ by @jonswaine pic.twitter.com/dcqSCaAj5X
— SPLC (@splcenter) August 28, 2015
#Police #JusticeSystem Tweets 8.28
Police violence doesn't happen in a vacuum. It's a systemic problem rooted in Dr. King's "triple evils" of poverty, racism & militarism.
— Brian Trautman (@BriTraut) August 24, 2015
#NYPD Police to start handing out 'info cards' after frisking suspects #StopAndFrisk http://t.co/MoNEHuH3vg pic.twitter.com/8XwJ5ebkmE
— Jaison Oliver (@oJaison) August 27, 2015
#JusticeforJoseVelasco #OPENYOUREYES @uniqueloves @scimc @getgln @MontereyHerald @KylieJenner @wizkhalifa @Tip pic.twitter.com/2OEDpea5Ln
— Antoinette Ramirez (@CaliLuv_831) August 23, 2015
Since 2005 American police have killed over 10,000 people
54 officers charged
Less than 10 convictions
None served more than a few years
— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) August 21, 2015
Not only is the criminal justice system pitted against poor people – it's used for major corp profit #SaturdaySchool pic.twitter.com/6DvggZGC2w
— Rhonda Ragsdale (@profragsdale) August 22, 2015
New Ferguson Judge Withdraws All Arrest Warrants Issued Before 2015 http://t.co/c4j3FjF0KT via @thinkprogress
— Propane Jane (@docrocktex26) August 25, 2015
When half of this country denies that police brutality even exists, we must expose it in sometimes horrific fashions in pursuit of justice
— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) August 26, 2015
On Friday we are launching one of the largest grassroots coalitions ever formed to end police brutality.
JOIN US @ http://t.co/MXZ1PMLDdZ
— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) August 26, 2015
Anti-Muslim Protests on First Day at Houston’s Arabic Immersion School
Protestors denouce Arabic immersion school for kindergarten and preschool students as “anti-American.”
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#Xenophobia
Maryland First State to Ban many types of Profiling in Law Enforcement
Per the memo, “officers in any law enforcement agency in Maryland may not consider race, ethnicity, gender, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity to any degree during routine police operations.”
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Judge Rules Federal Government Must Release Children From Detention Centers
The clock is ticking for the federal government to open family detention center doors and release immigrant children who are seeking asylum. In her recent ruling in Jenny Lisette Flores v. Loretta E. Lynch, U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee ordered the government to release detained children by October 23, 2015.
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In the end, Gee said the government should not hold children for longer than 72 hours unless it has proof that they are dangerous to themselves or others, or at high risk for flight. She also said that the goal should be “family reunification” and so they should be released with their parents as a first resort.
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#immigrantRights