2015-2016

Statement from Vanita Gupta, Head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division–Cleveland Aquittal

Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Saturday, May 23, 2015 Statement from Vanita Gupta, Head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, U.S. Attorney Steven M. Dettlebach for the Northern District of Ohio and Special Agent in Charge Stephen D. Anthony for the FBI Statement from Vanita Gupta, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, U.S. Attorney Steven M. Dettelbach for the Northern District of Ohio and Special Agent in Charge Stephen D. Anthony for the FBI: “The U.S. Attorney’s Office, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Civil Rights Division of the Department of…

Cleveland cop found not guilty in deaths of two African Americans

IANS/Cleveland Star Sunday 24th May, 2015 CLEVELAND, Ohio – A police officer in Cleveland, Ohio, was acquitted by a judge for the shooting deaths of two unarmed suspects, both black, after police chased the victims’ car on November 2012. After a four-week trial, Judge John P. O’Donnell on Saturday handed down the verdict in the case against white policeman Michael Brelo, 31, for the deaths of Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams. http://www.clevelandstar.com/index.php/sid/233142667 see also: US Justice Department to Review Cleveland Police Shooting

Cleveland Streets Are Calm, but Anger Lingers Day After Officer’s Acquittal

MAY 24, 2015 CLEVELAND — The 10 a.m. service at Elizabeth Baptist Church should have been a joyous occasion. It was Pentecost Sunday. The weather was beautiful. Worshipers applauded schoolchildren who received A’s and B’s on their report cards. But 24 hours before the congregants gathered to sing hymns and take communion, a judge had acquitted a Cleveland police officer of manslaughter for his role in a car pursuit that ended with two unarmed black people fatally shot. The not-guilty verdict sparked demonstrations Saturday that began in orderly fashion but ended with dozens of arrests and prompted conversations at Elizabeth…

Polizeiliche Misshandlungen in Hannover: keine bedauerlichen Einzelfälle!

Pressemitteilung der Kampagne für Opfer rassistischer Polizeigewalt Bremen. Kontakt: kop-bremen@riseup.net Am Sonntag wurde bekannt, dass in einer Polizeiwache in Hannover zwei geflüchtete Männer von mindestens einem Polizeibeamten misshandelt wurden. Die beiden jungen Männer wurden in einem Abstand von etwa einem halben Jahr von der Polizei aufgegriffen und auf der Wache gedemütigt, an Fußfesseln über den Boden geschleift und gewürgt. Diese Taten hat der Beamte fotografiert und damit auf Whatsapp geprahlt: „Das war ein Geschenk von Allah“. Die öffentliche Aufregung über diesen Skandal ist groß. Die Staatsanwaltschaft ermittelt, die Medien berichten ausführlich und der Polizeipräsident Dieter Romann steht Rede und Antwort….

DrewChristopher Joy on White Racial Justice Organizing in Maine in Black Lives Matter Times

The Black Lives Matter movement has changed the political landscape of the country toward racial justice with Black Liberation vision, strategy, culture, resilience, and resistance at the forefront, with a new generation of Black leadership rising to meet the challenges of our time. Around the country there are also White racial justice organizers and leaders who are working to engage, educate, mobilize and organize White people to join in this Black-led multiracial movement time and throw down against White supremacy and work for the structural and cultural changes that Black Lives Matter demands. http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30855-drewchristopher-joy-on-white-racial-justice-organizing-in-maine-in-black-lives-matter-times

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