An artist and activist known for visually beautiful and harrowing pieces that question the status quo is taking to the Baltimore streets to challenge police officers to “restore the trust of their communities.”
Michael D’Antuono — whose controversial A Tale Of Two Hoodies, inspired by the racial profiling that led to Trayvon Martin’s death, went viral — is back with his latest painting, It Stops With Cops.
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😰 student discipline files in Higher Ed are kept longer than this. #TheSystemWasBuilt2ProtectItself https://t.co/5a4YARdeTb
— Natina Renee (@NatinaRenee) December 3, 2015
ProfBlackTruth – WHITE TERRORISTS ATTACK MINNEAPOLIS #BLACKLIVESMATTER & SHOOT 5 PEOPLE #LaquanMcDonald #notonedime https://t.co/oH8rfgvZZJ
— TrueBlackNews (@trueblacknews) November 27, 2015
How black people can emotionally protect themselves in the age of #BlackLivesMatter: http://t.co/Lm6qVFMWXa #SelfCare #SandraBland
— Karen Attiah (@KarenAttiah) July 25, 2015
#BlackLivesMatter #Justice4Jamar – Activists Shot By White Supremacists in Minneapolis at the #4thPrecinctShutDown: https://t.co/Rb3c5dSg4z
— Osha Karow (@OshaKarow) November 24, 2015
A year after the failure to indict, my father's killer is still on NYPD's payroll — by Erica Garner (@es_snipes) https://t.co/ybpRbvjcR2
— HuffPost BlackVoices (@blackvoices) December 3, 2015
Search the Review-Journal’s database of officer-involved shootings since 1990 by location, circumstances and characteristics of the officers and subjects involved. It will be updated periodically.
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Historic rates of fatal police shootings in Europe suggest that American police in 2014 were 18 times more lethal than Danish police and 100 times more lethal than Finnish police, plus they killed significantly more frequently than police in France, Sweden and other European countries.
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A U.S. cop spends almost 20 times as many hours’ training in using force than in conflict de-escalation.
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This article explains from many perspectives why the large disparity if civilians killed by police in the U.S. vs police in Europe.
Cops murder with impunity and the taxpayer is held responsible – and they call this ‘justice.’
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#KellyThomas
#SayHisName
An innocent man and beloved family member is dead after police broke into his house and killed him.
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#DavidRomanoski
#SayHisName
Third Missouri Teen Charged With Making Campus Yik Yak Threats https://t.co/ku8x8t61rV pic.twitter.com/D5cFskmzBo
— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) November 13, 2015
It's
now
been
an
OUTRAGEOUS
356
days
since
@CLEpolice
murdered
#TamirRice.
This, alone, is injustice.
https://t.co/K4M0M4iqr6
— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) November 13, 2015
Two officers, eight shots, one mother dead. No indictment. https://t.co/4ep0ySMGtN pic.twitter.com/gngOloc2Z9
— AJC (@ajc) November 15, 2015
My latest.
Murder convictions of American police are as rare/difficult as convicting whites for lynching in 1892.
https://t.co/ZRU4ReH5Sl
— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) November 17, 2015
As during 90 years of American lynching, American Police know full well that the odds they are convicted for murder are far less than 1%.
— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) November 17, 2015
.@ShaunKing: 10,000 people have been killed by cops since 2005, almost none were convicted. https://t.co/UfXuWoBkxI pic.twitter.com/YJ0EipthDp
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) November 17, 2015
After celebrating her high school graduation, a teen girl was brutally attacked by a police officer.
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An injured New Jersey woman has been attacked twice by the same cop, and he’s getting away with it.
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Hunger strike, football strike, protests produce a dramatic, likely unprecedented, result at #Mizzou https://t.co/5pbzqETIKf
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) November 9, 2015
Federal agents bust up plot by Virginia white supremacists to shoot up black churches to start a race war https://t.co/SgUZ3Amh8n
— Linda Sarsour (@lsarsour) November 10, 2015
BREAKING: Driven to hospital, Virginia man tased, shackled and dies in police custody. Our investigation: https://t.co/5G5latvtef
#VATasing
— Ari Melber (@AriMelber) November 11, 2015
#BlackOnCampus highlights racism on college campuses across the country: https://t.co/i36kRawCLG pic.twitter.com/QblC05BI5A
— ABC News (@ABC) November 12, 2015