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The DOJ Will Investigate Alton Sterling’s Shooting

The Louisiana attorney general said he would fully cooperate with the federal investigation. WASHINGTON ― The U.S. Department of Justice has opened an investigation into the shooting death of Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man who was killed by police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, early Tuesday morning. “The FBI’s New Orleans Division, the Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Louisiana have opened a civil rights investigation into the death of Alton Sterling,” said David Jacobs, a spokesman for the department. “The Justice Department will collect all available facts and evidence and conduct a…

Fixing the Force

  • June 27, 2016
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Since 1994, the Justice Department has had the power to investigate law enforcement agencies nationwide for a pattern or practice of civil-rights violations. Federal officials can then compel departments with systemic problems to enter agreements to reform. Explore the investigations by location, date, allegation or status, then click for more details about each case. Policing the Police Sources: Justice Department officials and documentation; interviews with police and city officials and civil-rights groups; news reports. This project was reported by Sarah Childress, senior digital reporter for FRONTLINE’s Enterprise Journalism Group. It was built by Chris Amico and Ly Chheng from FRONTLINE,…

Police officer absolved in Freddie Gray case

  • June 23, 2016
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Baltimore police officer Caesar Goodson Jr. on Thursday was cleared of criminal wrongdoing in the death of Freddie Gray, a black man who died of injuries sustained while in police custody. Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Barry Williams found Mr. Goodson, who is also black, not guilty of all criminal counts including second-degree depraved heart murder, the most serious accusation against any of the six officers charged in connection with Gray’s death. Prosecutor had failed to secure convictions in two earlier trials of police officers. Mr. Goodson, 46, was the driver of a police transport van in which Gray broke…

Am Ende war JAJA Tod

  • June 15, 2016
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Das neue Jahr ist gerade zwei Wochen alt und der Winter hat Hamburg schließlich doch noch in seiner nass-kalten Variante erreicht. Am 14. Januar 2016 wird Jaja Diabi am Hamburger Berg von der Polizei festgenommen. Vier Tage später, am 18. Januar wird er von der U-Haft an der Holstenglacis nach Hahnöfersand verlegt. Genau einen Monat später, am 19. Februar 2016 ist Jaja Diabi tot. Laut Justizbehörde hat Jaja Selbstmord begangen, sich an einer Gardinenstange erhängt. Laut Justizbehörde gab es jedoch im Vorwege keine Anzeichen einer möglichen Suizidgefahr, weder das sogenannte Suizidscreening ergab dazu Anhaltspunkte, noch berichteten die Beamten, die am…

PORTUGUESE POLICE GENOCIDE AGAINST BLACK PEOPLE

Veröffentlicht am 26.02.2015 This video made by PLATFORMA GUETO describes the cases of murder of young black men, who have been targeted for genocide carried out by the Portuguese police since a few years now. These cases have received inadequate attention from the society and the Portuguese authorities, showing no more than contempt for our lives. These young people were criminalized at birth by a society and a country that only remember them when they hold them in prisons, or physically eliminate them. It’s time to say ENOUGH to this genocide. We can not continue to live going by these…

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