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Ferguson Protestors to Prosecutors: Reopen Michael Brown Investigation

  • March 22, 2017
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Newly released video casts doubt on claim that Brown robbed convenience store before he was killed by a Ferguson Police Department officer.       On Saturday (March 11), filmmaker Jason Pollock debuted “Stranger Fruit,” his documentary about the death of Michael Brown, at South by Southwest. The film included previously unreleased footage that shows that Michael Brown visited Ferguson Market—the store he was accused of robbing—just hours before his August 2014 death and appeared to conduct a friendly transaction with workers there. Darren Wilson, the former Ferguson Police Department officer who killed Brown, claimed that he approached the unarmed…

A police cover-up breaks down in Sacramento

  • February 28, 2017
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FOR JOSEPH Mann, suffering a mental health crisis while Black and homeless on the streets of Sacramento proved to be a death sentence. The execution was carried out last July by Sacramento police officers Randy Lozoya and John Tennis, who twice attempted to run over Mann in their patrol vehicle–and, when that failed, exited and gunned him down, firing 18 times and riddling Mann with 14 bullets. Yet Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert has since cleared both officers of any wrongdoing. That’s despite dash-cam video from the patrol car driven by Mann’s murderers, which captured their conversation leading…

Polizei misshandelt schwarzen Franzosen schwer

  • February 14, 2017
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Vorwurf der Vergewaltigung / Gewalt provoziert Ausschreitungen im Pariser Vorort / Hollande besucht 22-jähriges Opfer Polizeigewalt zählt für viele, vor allem jüngere Bewohner der Pariser und Lyoner Banlieues fast zum Alltag. Durch Personenkontrollen, gerne auch mehrfach am Tag, werden die Menschen in den »sozialen Brennpunkten« von den Uniformierten drangsaliert – vor allem von Sondereinheiten wie den »Brigades anti-criminalité« oder den »Brigades spéciales de terrain«. Letztere sind es nun, die soeben in einen handfesten Skandal verwickelt sind. https://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/1041186.polizei-misshandelt-schwarzen-franzosen-schwer.html

Jury Appears One Vote Short of Convicting Ex-Police Officer in Walter Scott’s Death

  • December 3, 2016
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CHARLESTON, S.C. — A jury signaled here on Friday that it was within a single vote of convicting a white former police officer in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man. But confusion reigned in the courtroom as the jury wavered about whether it was hopelessly deadlocked about the killing, which was recorded on video and became a symbol of the nation’s heated debate about race and policing. Over the misgivings of a defense lawyer, Judge Clifton B. Newman, who presided over a four-week trial, did not declare a mistrial in the case of the former officer, Michael T….

Looking for Accountability in Police-Involved Deaths of Blacks

  • October 25, 2016
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Ein Berlicht mit Statistik 11 cases have fueled outrage, heightened racial tensions and instigated protests around the nation. In some of the cases, the police offered an explanation for their actions, but raw videos led many to conclude that the police actions were unjustified. So far, officers have been indicted in five cases. In four cases, grand juries declined to bring charges. In the cases listed above, images of questionable police behavior were captured on video, which helped to stoke anger across the country. Officers in all the cases were placed on administrative leave or reassigned soon after the episodes….

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