police brutality
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Movement to free Mumia set to expand on gains
This article first appeared in the December 2006 issue of Socialism and Liberation magazine. What began as a traffic stop…
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Seven guards, nurse indicted in Florida boot camp killing
On Nov. 28, seven guards and a nurse were charged with aggravated manslaughter against a child for the murder of…
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Los Angeles cops unpunished for killing infant Suzie Peña
The Los Angeles Police Commission recently released its investigative report on the July 2005 Los Angeles Police Department’s brutal killing…
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Atlanta police kill 92-year-old Black woman in her home
On Nov. 22, narcotics police broke down the door of Kathryn Johnston’s home located in a working-class, African American neighborhood…
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Racist New York cops kill groom on wedding day, fire 50 shots
In yet another racist police atrocity in New York City, three young, Black men were brutally attacked and shot 50…
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Commemorating the liberation of Assata Shakur
Assata Shakur, an African American freedom fighter, was convicted of killing a New Jersey cop in 1973. She escaped prison…
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Legal brief filed in Muma Abu-Jamal’s case
Political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal has been on Pennsylvania’s death row since 1982 on charges of shooting a Philadelphia cop. He…
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New Jersey prison conditions ‘reminiscent of Abu Ghraib’
On Aug. 4, New Jersey State Prison went on lockdown for the third time in 17 months. The lockdown followed…
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An example of revolutionary defiance and militancy
Forty years ago, in October 1966, the Black Panther Party was born. This was one of the highlights in the…
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Protest hits cop shooting in San Francisco
Police fatally shot 25-year-old Asa Sullivan on June 6 inside an apartment. He was the San Francisco police department’s 17th…
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