Two Broward SHeriff’s Deputies are facing criminal charges after being caught brutally beating a 50-year-old man.
Source: thefreethoughtproject.com
Witness to Michael Brown shooting sues Ferguson and Darren Wilson
A witness to a police officer’s fatal shooting of Michael Brown last summer in Ferguson, Missouri, has filed a lawsuit alleging that he was wrongly stopped and fired on during the encounter on a city street.
The lawsuit, filed last week by Dorian Johnson, claims that the officer, Darren Wilson, fired at him and Brown as they ran away from him on Aug. 9. The lawsuit claims Wilson targeted him without probable cause.
“Officer Wilson acted with either deliberate indifference and/or reckless disregard toward” Johnson, the lawsuit says.
The suit also cited many of the Departmet of Justice findings, arguing that the city and former Police Chief Thomas Jackson “facilitated, encouraged and/or instigated” biased police behavior, including the “excessive force” used against Brown and Johnson.
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Source: www.msnbc.com
‘Our Demand Is Simple: Stop Killing Us’
How a group of black social-media activists built the nation’s first 21st-century civil rights movement.
Source: www.nytimes.com
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They told this DEA agent not to enforce drug laws in white areas. Really. [VIDEO]
Source: www.youtube.com
Real talk right here. REAL talk.
VIDEO – Multiple Cops Held at Gunpoint by Other Cops Who Mistook them for Criminals
New York officers say they were racially profiled after they were swarmed by multiple officers with guns drawn while on a call.
Source: thefreethoughtproject.com
911 call reported: “Black people wearing bulletproof vests in a car” — because that’s unreasonable???
Loretta Lynch Unveils $20,000,000 Program to Expand Cop Body Cameras
Just a week on the job, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch on Friday unveiled a $20 million pilot program to expand the use of police body cameras for “transparency” amid nationwide protests over law enforcement treatment of suspects, according to NBC News.
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Source: goodblacknews.org
Video Captures Cops Using Suspect as Training Dummy for MMA Moves, Snap his Arm in Two
The torturous and sadistic actions of San Bernardino police officers were captured on video as cops snap a man’s arm while he lays flat on his stomach.
Source: thefreethoughtproject.com
Baltimore Photographer Devin Allen Captures Uprising In Touching TIME Cover Photo
An amateur photographer from Baltimore is being celebrated for his photos taken during the recent demonstrations in the name of Freddie Gray. His images are so touching, in fact, that the 26-year-old’s work is featured on the latest cover of TIME Magazine.
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Source: goodblacknews.org
Carl Dix at Oakland May Day ILWU anti-police-terror Rally after Longshoremen shutdown the port
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Carl Dix of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA is co-founder of the Stop Mass incarceration Network. Here he was speaking at a rally on May Day, 2015 held by the ILWU (International Longshore and Warehouse Union) following a shut down of ports in the San Francisco Bay Area in protest of Police Terror.
Source: socialaction2014.wordpress.com
The “Depraved-Heart Murder’ of #FreddieGray
Six Baltimore police officers are charged in connection with his death, including one for second-degree murder.
Source: www.theatlantic.com
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