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Police shooting of Texas teen in moving car violated federal guidance

Chief says killing of Jordan Edwards also violated department’s ‘core values’ and changes official account, saying teens were driving away at time of shooting When a Dallas-area police officer fired shots into a moving car on Saturday night, killing 15-year-old Jordan Edwards, the officer did so in direct violation of federal guidance and widespread police department best practices. Moving targets US police have fatally shot 30 people in moving vehicles this year, despite federal guidelines advising them not to. Why have police departments pulled the trigger on drivers rather than reform? Read more According to the officer’s police chief, he…

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…

Paris is “Burning”. Peoples’ Rage Against Racist/Colonialist French Police

  • February 20, 2017
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In the aftermath of the brutal torture and rape of the 22 years old Théo Luhaka beginning of February 2017 in Aulnay-sous-Bois, some 20 Kilometers north of Paris, resistance of Black, Muslim and Maghrebian-French minority communities are growing. Racial profiling is in no way so “innocent” as the police and Politicians want us to believe, in most cases they end in brutal police violence – KOP has been emphasizing this point since the beginning of our campaign against such policing. The following video document the power and determination of peoples’ resistance. We express our solidarity with the victim and his…

Cologne police reject charges of racial profiling, defend New Year’s Eve security tactics

  • February 1, 2017
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In a bid to prevent a repeat of last year’s sex attacks, state police focused on men of North African descent on New Year’s Eve. Police Chief Jürgen Mathies has faced criticism for praising the success of the practice. In the face of a heated debate in Germany over the alleged use of racial profiling during New Year’s Eve celebrations on Sunday, police in the German city of Cologne defended their tactics. Speaking to the press, Police Chief Jürgen Mathies admitted that yes, officers had specifically targeted men who appeared to be of North African extraction to undergo police checks,…

Die Polizei lügt

  • January 31, 2017
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Deutschland Biplab Basu über rassistisch motivierte Polizeikontrollen und wie Rassismus und Gewalt gegen Frauen gegeneinander ausgespielt werden Interview: Sebastian Friedrich Nach der Silvesternacht in Köln häufen sich die Berichte von Menschen, die der Polizei Rassismus vorwerfen. Wir sprachen dazu mit Biplab Basu. Er beschäftigt sich seit Jahrzehnten mit dem Thema und berät Betroffene rassistisch motivierter Polizeikontrollen. Wie beurteilst du den Polizeieinsatz in Köln? Biplab Basu: Das war purer Rassismus, nichts anderes als Racial Profiling. Die Polizei hat Menschen aufgrund von Merkmalen wie Hautfarbe, Haarfarbe, Kleidung, religiöser Symbole oder Sprache kontrolliert. Die Polizei bestreitet, rassistisch gehandelt zu haben. Sie hätten Menschen…

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