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Racial Profiling

  • August 31, 2017
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Das Deutsche Institut für Menschenrechte spricht sich gegen rassistische Polizeikontrollen in Deutschland aus, das sogenannte Racial Profiling. Zu der Thematik veröffentlichte das Institut eine Studie und einen Beitrag im Anwaltsblatt. Hendrik Cremer (2013):Studie: “Racial Profiling” – Menschenrechtswidrige Personenkontrollen nach § 22 Abs. 1 a Bundespolizeigesetz. Empfehlungen an den Gesetzgeber, Gerichte und Polizei Hendrik Cremer (2013): Das Verbot rassistischer Diskriminierung nach Art. 3 Abs. 3 GG. Ein Handlungsfeld für die anwaltliche Praxis am Beispiel von “Racial Profiling” (PDF, 104 KB, nicht barrierefrei) http://www.institut-fuer-menschenrechte.de/themen/schutz-vor-rassismus/racial-profiling/

Dashcam video shows police sexually assaulted Texas woman, lawyer says

  • August 17, 2017
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The attorney for a black woman subjected to an invasive and lengthy roadside strip search by Texas police has released a dashcam video of the incident that he says shows her treatment was a form of rape. “When you stick your fingers in somebody without their effective consent, that’s rape in any state that I know of,” said Sam Cammack, an attorney for Charnesia Corley. Cammack made the video public after two Harris County deputies, Ronaldine Pierre and William Strong, were cleared of official oppression by a grand jury earlier this month. They are still with the sheriff’s department. Cammack…

Police Killed Michael Brown 3 Years Ago. Reflections on the Energy and Trauma of the Uprising It Sparked

  • August 14, 2017
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Three years ago today (August 9), a White Ferguson, Missouri, police officer named Darren Wilson fatally shot Michael Brown, an unarmed Black 18-year-old he’d stopped for walking in the street on his way home. Authorities let Brown’s body lay outside for some four hours, stunning and then angering his community. The following day saw both a peaceful vigil and the burning of a QuikTrip gas station among other sites. For 10 days and nights, local then state police met mostly peaceful protesters with tanks, rubber bullets, tear gas and other military-grade equipment. At the height of what some call the…

Cop Who Killed Jordan Edwards Fired

  • August 4, 2017
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Ex-officer Roy Oliver was fired three days after he shot and killed the unarmed teenager. On Saturday (April 29) an officer of the Balch Springs Police Department shot and killed unarmed 15-year-old Jordan Edwards. Now, that officer has been identified and fired from the force, which operates in a suburb of Dallas. Ex-officer Roy Oliver was the shooter. He is White. Edwards was Black. “From our policies, which I went by, there were violations. I acted on them,” Balch Springs Police Chief Jonathan Haber told press yesterday (May 2). Haber did not detail Oliver’s violations. The Dallas Morning News reports…

Chris Hedges | The Origins of Our Police State

Elizabeth, New Jersey – JaQuan LaPierre, 22, was riding a bicycle down a sidewalk Sept. 5 when he noticed a squad car pulling up beside him. It was 8:30 on a hot Thursday night at the intersection of Bond Street and Jackson Avenue here in Elizabeth, N.J. LaPierre had 10 glass vials of crack cocaine—probably what the cops were hoping to find—and he hastily swallowed them. He halted and faced the two officers who emerged from the cruiser. “We are tired of you niggers,” he remembers one of the officers saying. “We’re tired of all this shooting and robberies and…

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