Racial Profiling

Supreme court to address Duane Buck’s ‘racially tainted’ death sentence

  • October 5, 2016
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Duane Buck attended in 1997 the sentencing hearing in Texas that would seal his fate. The jury was being asked to decide whether to have him executed for killing his former girlfriend, Debra Gardner, and her friend Kenneth Butler. There was no disputing the conviction – Buck had carried out the brutal murders on 30 July 1995. Even so, he was still astonished by what he heard coming from the mouth of a so-called “expert” witness. Walter Quijano, a then psychologist who was frequently called to testify in Texas capital trials, was asked to give his professional opinion with regards…

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….

Protests Erupt over Police Killings of Terence Crutcher & Keith Lamont Scott in Tulsa & Charlotte

  • September 22, 2016
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We host a roundtable on police killings of black men. Protests escalated in Charlotte, North Carolina, overnight when hundreds took to the street and blocked Interstate 85 to express outrage over the police shooting of 43-year-old African American Keith Lamont Scott on Tuesday. Video footage shows people blocking the highway, where fires were lit. This comes as police in Tulsa, Oklahoma, have released a video showing a white police officer shooting and killing 40-year-old African American Terence Crutcher while his hands were in the air. We are joined by Vincent Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights; Bree…

Heidelberg: Ruhestörung endet mit massivem Polizeieinsatz

  • September 5, 2016
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Heidelberg. (pol/eka) Wegen einer Ruhestörung wurden Beamte des Polizeireviers Heidelberg-Süd bereits am späten Freitagabend in das Mörgelgewann nach Kirchheim gerufen. Bereits zu diesem Zeitpunkt machten einige der zur Ruhe Ermahnten einen alkoholisierten Eindruck und verhielten sich uneinsichtig, so die Polizei. Als die Ordnungshüter kurz nach Mitternacht erneut wegen einer Ruhestörung ins Mörgelgewann gerufen wurden, eskalierte die Situation: Eine 49-jährige Frau war derart aufbrausend und aggressiv, dass sie von den Beamten zur Seite genommen sollte. Daraufhin gingen die restlichen Anwesenden gegen die Polizei vor. Es kam zu tumultartigen Szenen, die nur mit massiver Polizei-Unterstützung in den Griff zu bekommen waren. Am…

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