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6 Baltimore Police Officers Charged in Freddie Gray Death

The New Yorck Times By ALAN BLINDER and RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑAMAY 1, 2015 BALTIMORE — Baltimore’s chief prosecutor charged six police officers on Friday with a range of crimes including murder and manslaughter in the arrest and fatal injury of Freddie Gray, a striking and surprisingly swift turn in a case that has drawn national attention to police conduct. The state’s attorney for Baltimore City, Marilyn J. Mosby, filed the charges almost as soon as she received a medical examiner’s report that ruled Mr. Gray’s death a homicide, and a day after the police concluded their initial investigation and handed over…

In America, black children don’t get to be children

  • April 30, 2015
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By Stacey Patton Black America has again been reminded that its children are not seen as worthy of being alive — in part because they are not seen as children at all, but as menacing threats to white lives. America does not extend the fundamental elements of childhood to black boys and girls. Black childhood is considered innately inferior, dangerous and indistinguishable from black adulthood. Black children are not afforded the same presumption of innocence as white children, especially in life-or-death situations. http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/in-america-black-children-dont-get-to-be-children/2014/11/26/a9e24756-74ee-11e4-a755-e32227229e7b_story.html

Why is America celebrating the beating of a black child?

  • April 30, 2015
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By Stacy Patton A mom’s violence won’t keep her son safe. It’s not surprising that a black mother in Baltimore who chased down, cursed and beat her 16-year-old son in the middle of a riot has been called a hero. In this country, when black mothers fulfill stereotypes of mammies, angry and thwarting resistance to a system designed to kill their children, they get praised. “He gave me eye contact,” Toya Graham told CBS News. “And at that point, you know, not even thinking about cameras or anything like that — that’s my only son and at the end of…

Killing the Future: The Theft of Black Life

  • April 30, 2015
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In December 2014, 10 mothers whose children were killed by police held a rally in front of the US Department of Justice. Chavis was there and said into the megaphone, “None of us are safe. Law enforcement around the United States is brutalizing, arresting and murdering.” A large group surrounded her with signs and candles. One by one the mothers spoke. Some had fought for years like Chavis, who started a petition, now 35,000 signatures strong, to send to former Attorney General Eric Holder, or Valerie Bell, whose son Sean was shot dead by New York City Police Department (NYPD)…

“Tausende Tote, 54 Anklagen, elf Verurteilungen ” – in USA

  • April 12, 2015
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Süddeutsche Zeitung vom 12. April, 2015 berichtet: In den vergangenen zehn Jahren haben amerikanische Polizisten während ihrer Einsätze Tausende Menschen erschossen. Recherchen der Washington Post zeigen, dass in lediglich 54 Fällen Anklage erhoben wurde, nur elf Beamte wurden verurteilt. Drei Viertel der Todesschützen sind Weiße, zwei Drittel der Opfer sind Afro-Amerikaner. Die Zahlen dürften die Debatte über brutal und häufig rassistisch handelnde US-Polizisten weiter befeuern. http://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/polizeigewalt-in-den-usa-tausende-tote-anklagen-elf-verurteilungen-1.2432095

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