Posts Tagged ‘Police brutality’

Black Lives Matter Takes Back The Night & Shuts Down Toronto

Print Friendly Black lives were the focus at Take Back The Night on Saturday, an event that shut down Toronto streets and highlighted sexual violence. Hundreds rallied against police brutality and in solidarity with marginalized black lives, with particular attention to the lives of black individuals who are cis women, trans, queer, on the gender spectrum, […]

Missouri Police Misconduct Still At An All Time High

Missouri has been a hotbed for police brutality and controversy for some time now. It’s so bad that riots and wide scale instances of rebellion have been filling the mainstream media programming for as long as some of us can remember. However, what the mainstream media does not say is that it’s not the people’s fault. […]

Member of “Police Review Board” Fired for Not Covering Up Police Brutality: Lawsuit

Jack Bouboushian | Courthouse News Service CHICAGO (CN) – An investigator for Chicago’s Independent Police Review Authority claims his supervisors repeatedly ordered him to reverse his findings of police misconduct, then fired him when he refused. Lorenzo Davis sued the City of Chicago, Independent Police Review Authority Chief Administrator […]

Maybe Las Vegas Needs a Riot (Via Submission)

This post was submitted by Ballentine of the Sunset Activist Collective, via the CopBlock.org Submissions page. Ballentine was also a member of the “Sunset Four,” a group of Las Vegas activists who were arrested in August of 2013 for protesting against police brutality and other crimes by the police. After multiple attempts, law enforcement in […]

Search These Phrases to See How Disgustingly Horrific the Police State Has Become

WASHINGTON, DC — Part of the beauty of the internet is that we have access to the reality behind appearances. Not too long ago, we had to depend on mainstream media reporting to us what police were doing on the streets. We were shocked when we saw the Rodney […]

U.S. police routinely travel to Israel to learn methods of brutality and repression

     When McKinney, TX police officer David Eric Casebolt brutally took down a teenage girl at a pool party in June, he was using a form of martial arts called Krav Maga in which he trained exclusively. These combat techniques were developed by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). This is a small reflection of a […]

While Mainstream Rap Pushes “B**ches & Money,” Artist Immortal Technique Tackles the Police State

Underground hip-hop artist Immortal Technique has always been outspoken on important issues like government corruption and police brutality. In a series of recent interviews about the murders of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, he is speaking out again. Technique has been protesting against, and rapping about police brutality for decades, long before the issue was […]

Who will they serve? Warnings mount that body cameras could do more harm than good

ByJon Queally | Common Dreams Though use of body cameras for the nation’s police officers has been put forth as a key reform that could increase accountability for law enforcement agencies and help curb episodes of police brutality, a new policy framework released by the ACLU on Thursday warns that without proper implementation […]

117 Countries Slam American Police Brutality at UN Human Rights Council

(ANTIMEDIA) In what could hardly be called a surprise, the UN Human Rights Council chastised the US over its epidemic of police violence, discrimination, needless killings, and general neglect, following through with recommendations made in its first review in 2010. The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) takes place every four years to scrutinize the human and […]

Police brutality: Thug cop face slams handcuffed man into concrete

By Alex Thomas (INTELLIHUB) — A police officer in Virgina has resigned from the force after video footage released by the victim’s family showed him slamming a handcuffed man face first into the concrete. Officer David Schmindt Jr. is currently facing charges of misdemeanor assault and battery for the knock out which was […]

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