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There’s a lot of chatter about ‘stop and frisk.’ Here are the facts.

  • October 10, 2016
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In the last two weeks, some Americans have heard more about a controversial New York City Police Department tactic — “stop and frisk” — than possibly ever before. A whole host of conservative ideologues, elected officials and others have stepped forward to defend the Trump-Pence campaign’s claims that that tactic is an essential crime prevention tool uniquely capable of fending off anarchy and saving lives in crime-ridden communities. That’s what the Trump-Pence campaign continues to say even when confronted with the fact that a federal court ruled in 2013 that the way New York City police officers used the tactic…

Intersecting Criminalization: What Killed Ugandan Refugee Alfred Olango

  • October 8, 2016
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To flee from a war zone, only to be met with a fatal police bullet on the other side of the world: It’s an uncomfortable, truncated narrative of an abbreviated life. This was how Alfred Olango’s life concluded late last month, at the intersection of many forces of violence that converged at a San Diego suburb, in a scene that braided strands of war, policing, race and migration. A diasporic history caught up to him in the moment the police extinguished his life, but he had spent years in various states of escape. He was finally ensnared by a system…

Polizeigewalt gegen Schwarze und andere sichtbare Minderheiten in den USA und die Widerstandsbewegung

  • September 22, 2016
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Wir veröffentlichen fünf Berichte über die aktuelle rassistische Polizeigewalt und die Widerstandsbewegung der betroffene Bevölkerung aus der renommierte US alternative Fernsehsender “Democracy Now”. State of Emergency: Charlotte NAACP & Protesters Demand Police Release Video of Keith Scott Shooting North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory has declared a state of emergency in the city of Charlotte, where protests continued for a second night after Tuesday’s fatal police shooting of 43-year-old African American Keith Lamont Scott, the father of seven children. Police say Scott “posed an imminent deadly threat,” but Scott’s family says he was unarmed. We are joined by Corine Mack, president…

Man Is Shot in Charlotte as Unrest Stretches to Second Night

  • September 22, 2016
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A second night of protests set off by the police killing of a black man spiraled into chaos and violence after nightfall here Wednesday when a demonstration was interrupted by gunfire that gravely wounded a man in the crowd. Law enforcement authorities fired tear gas in a desperate bid to restore order. The city said on its Twitter account that the unidentified man was on life support after what officials said was a “civilian on civilian” confrontation. The authorities provided no further details. Charlotte officials had said earlier that the man had been killed in the unrest….

Charged with murder, but they didn’t kill anyone—police did

  • August 23, 2016
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A Reader investigation found ten cases since 2011 where police killed a civilian in Chicago and charged an accomplice with the murder.On July 8, 2012, as the summer sun rose over the Auburn Gresham neighborhood on the south side of Chicago, police hauled a distraught 19-year-old named Tevin Louis away from a murder scene. The victim was Louis’s best friend, Marquise Sampson. The shooter was a veteran police officer, Antonio Dicarlo. For the previous five years, Louis and Sampson had been inseparable, drawn together by rough childhoods marked by foster care and poverty. In good times, Sampson made Louis laugh….

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