by Xena
A grand jury has indicted former South Carolina police officer Michael Slager on a murder charge in the fatal shooting of unarmed Walter Scott.
The April 4, 2015 killing was captured on video by a bystander. It showed that Slager fired 8 times at the 50-year old Walter Scott as Scott’s back was turned, running away from Slager.
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No White Teens Were Harmed In making Of This 🎥: McKinney, Texas. http://t.co/dIhDFxboa5 #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/dThGci9Mgk
— THE CONNET (@THEAlleyeceeing) June 7, 2015
Cops weight and knee on the back of a black 14 year old unarmed girl in Texas. #McKinney Texas https://t.co/yWzh8Qc8WW
— Janelle Monáe, Cindi (@JanelleMonae) June 7, 2015
@getgln @MrMilitantNegro @theonlybacchus @ShaunKing Interview w black Craig Ranch RESIDENT https://t.co/XJemobZjkX
— Laurie (@LifeforceVibes) June 8, 2015
So, I found the back story. #McKinneyPolice why aren’t these criminals arrested for assaulting a child? pic.twitter.com/PdojGhyp6q
— Jaxx (@LiberalJaxx) June 8, 2015
When he looks around and realizes people have their cameras out he takes his knee off her head #McKinney pic.twitter.com/JWcSREJHLK
— Name (@november17) June 7, 2015
Truthout spoke with relatives of murdered Black men, who described feeling angry and isolated, their lives left in tatters.
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#TraumaCenterNow
How the mortgage industry “black tax” robbed black #Baltimore of its wealth. @nytopinion http://t.co/GJpRPaQ9We pic.twitter.com/FvFzzTzgLu
— Brent Staples (@BrentNYT) May 31, 2015
Chicago woman and her younger brother stabbed, beaten in racist hate crime http://t.co/li6tgRJ4EQ @adri16
— Viva la causa! (@70torinoman) June 4, 2015
Cops who shot & killed 17-year-old #JessieHernandez will be charged with NOTHING: http://t.co/OhJnYVRsOj pic.twitter.com/EfP8eXxfFU
— Keegan Stephan (@KeeganNYC) June 5, 2015
UPDATE: Sheriff Dept. Concluded That Officer Didn’t Commit Crime When He Killed #TamirRice http://t.co/lJp6gdd89I pic.twitter.com/Vk7Rry89al
— Colorlines.com (@Colorlines) June 5, 2015
One of these countries is not like the others http://t.co/YdlP3W5Xv6 pic.twitter.com/LU1oSiNBgD
— Conrad Hackett (@conradhackett) June 2, 2015
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A 22-year-old college student found dead in restraints at a Georgia county jail died from several blunt-force injuries to his head and upper body, the coroner who ruled the death a homicide said Thursday.
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Jerry Hough (1935- ) is an American political scientist, a professor at Duke University. About to retire, he is no longer holding his tongue on his racist views.
Continue reading, if you want to understand how the doctrine of White Supremacy, ethnocentrism and racism is spread through academia.
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By Xena
All this time that we’ve reported on law enforcement killing unarmed civilians, and there are times I feel overwhelmed because the cases, and knowledge of cases, come faster than I can keep up. Because of new situations almost weekly, if not daily, it’s also difficult to follow-up on cases previously reported.
There are times I feel hopeless because each time we think we have an answer to reduce or stop the number of police involved shootings of unarmed citizens, we find the end result is always up to a human being who listens to the story of the cop who fired the gun. The living have opportunity to say what they thought and felt. The dead do not.
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Pressure builds on GOP for police criminal justice reforms ………………………………. http://t.co/A7R2vGEtoD
— DcSlumdog (@DcSlumdog) June 1, 2015
they said they "thought" he "might" do something distructive …. so they put 3 in his back … https://t.co/jWv6y4rCnz
— DcSlumdog (@DcSlumdog) June 3, 2015
This afternoon I will offer an amendment to the CJS appropriations bill to increase funding for police body cameras by $10M.
— Joaquin Castro (@JoaquinCastrotx) June 2, 2015
Police: Amilcar Perez-Lopez was killed for lunging at cops. Autopsy: this is where he was shot http://t.co/H4FMr9hVIT pic.twitter.com/3Tb5mFeaXB
— Jon Swaine (@jonswaine) June 2, 2015
In our country we take for granted that we are presumed innocent until proven guilty. But in communities that span 100 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border,
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One third of the Senate has had enough of the Obama administration’s abusive imprisonment of vulnerable mothers and children fleeing violence in Central America. In a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson on Monday, they wrote:
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