police brutality
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Tactics and fighting slogans for the anti-police brutality movement
Beyond the immediate demand for justice related to a particular incident of police brutality, the question often arises “how do…
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Pushing the mentally ill into prisons
A talk given at a forum organized by the ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) at…
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Sacramento forum exposes police brutality and prison industrial complex
Community members gather at the Sol Collective, a community arts center in Sacramento, Calif., for a forum on police brutality…
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Manteca, Calif., action marks second anniversary of police killing
June 9, 2013, was the second anniversary of the killing of Ernest Duenez Jr. by Manteca police officer John Moody.
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Victim of Sacramento police brutality dies in custody
On May 24 the Sacramento police were called to a Metro PCS cell phone store because John Torretti, age 42,…
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Assata Shakur: Understanding the politics behind the FBI’s new attack
On May 2, the FBI announced that they had placed Assata Shakur on its “Most Wanted Terrorists” list, making her…
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Workers and youth march on Los Angeles Sheriffs in Watts area
Over 200 people joined in a spirited march on the Lynwood substation of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department to demand…
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Mistrial declared in Jewu Richardson case
After nine days of arguments and three days of jury deliberation, the judge in the case of Jewu Richardson on…
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NYPD ‘stop and frisk’ campaign targets LGBTQ residents
The New York Police Department's racist terror campaign, known as “Stop and Frisk,” continues to plague working-class communities in the…
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Police drones: The new ‘ghetto birds’?
In the 1990s, hip-hop artists documented the chopping of police helicopter rotor blades circling overhead in a police manhunt of…
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