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Justice For Peter Liang Protest Ignores Justice For Akai Gurley

February 22, 2016 Keegan Stephan, www.keegan.nyc Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Akai Gurley, Black Lives Matter (BLM), NYC, police brutality

By Keegan Stephan for Keegan NYC - Today, thousands gathered in support of Peter Liang, the NYPD officer who shot and killed Akai Gurley, and was recently convicted of manslaughter and other charges by a Brooklyn jury. When family and supporters of Akai Gurley arrived to counter protest, they were booed, cursed at, flipped off, and told to leave. Protesters at the rally and on-line said they want the judge to dismiss the manslaughter charge against Liang, and believe that he was only convicted because he is Chinese-American – that racism skewed justice and he would not have been convicted if he were white or black.

Newsletter: End The Security State

February 20, 2016 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.PopularResistance.org Newsletter #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Black Panthers, Capitalism, Inequality, Infilitration, NSA, Occupy, Plutocracy, Privacy, spying

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance. The conflict between democracy and state repression, often claimed as necessary to protect our safety and security, has moved the United States consistently toward a greater national security state that has become inconsistent with people’s privacy and freedom; as well as their ability to exercise First Amendment protected political activities. The depth of surveillance – including infiltration of political movements, cameras to enforce traffic laws and monitor activities almost everywhere in populated areas, aerial surveillance of neighborhoods and protests by helicopters, drones and airplanes and digital spying, have created a pervasive surveillance apparatus that undermines privacy, political activity and communication. We cannot have a real democracy with this level of surveillance.

Black Lives Matter & Reproductive Rights Alliance For Justice

February 16, 2016 Katie Klabusich, www.truth-out.org Strategize! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Reproductive Rights

By Katie Klabusich for Truthout - Leaders from the Black Lives Matter and reproductive justice movements recently announced a formal organizational alliance through a call with press and activists around the country. "Today, we launch this statement of solidarity with Black Lives Matter to affirm that the work that we've been doing for 20 years for Black women's reproductive freedom and justice is connected to the movement for Black lives, and to recognize that Black Lives Matter has brought things to a crucial tipping point," said Monica Raye Simpson...

Cleveland Sues Tamir Rice’s Family For Ambulance Expense

February 16, 2016 Nathan Wellman, www.usuncut.com Educate! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Cleveland, Lawsuit, police brutality, Tamir Rice

By Nathan Wellman for U.S. Uncut - Last December, a Cleveland officer killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice and forever shattered a family’s sense of peace in the process. Now police expect that same grieving family to foot the bill for the medical care provided to their dying son. The City of Cleveland has filed a creditor’s claim against the “estate” of the young boy. They expect the Rice family to pay five hundred dollars for “emergency medical services rendered as the decedent’s last dying expense.”

How The US Came To Recognize Black History Month

February 13, 2016 Daryl Michael Scott, zinnedproject.org Educate! #BlackLivesMatter, Black History, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Racism

By Daryl Michael Scott for the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. More importantly, Woodson believed that history was made by the people, not simply or primarily by great men.He envisioned the study and celebration of the Negro as a race, not simply as the producers of a great man. And Lincoln, however great, had not freed the slaves—the Union Army, including hundreds of thousands of Black soldiers and sailors, had done that. Rather than focusing on two men, the Black community, he believed, should focus on the countless Black men and women who had contributed to the advance of human civilization. Woodson never viewed Black history as a one-week affair. He pressed for schools to use Negro History Week to demonstrate what students learned all year. In the same vein, he established a Black studies extension program to reach adults throughout the year. It was in this sense that Blacks would learn of their past on a daily basis that he looked forward to the time when an annual celebration would no longer be necessary.

NYPD Officer Found Guilty For Fatal Shooting Of Gurley

February 12, 2016 Staff, www.rt.com Educate! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), New York (NY), police brutality

By Staff of RT - New York Police Department Officer Peter Liang was found guilty on charges related to the death of Akai Gurley. Liang was patrolling a housing complex when he claims he accidentally fired his gun, killing Gurley. He now faces up to 15 years in prison. Liang was found guilty of second-degree manslaughter and official misconduct. His sentencing is set for April 14. According to the New York Daily News, each of the 12 jury members took turns pulling the trigger of the gun that shot Gurley. Liang’s attorneys attempted to have a mistrial declared due to “inflammatory remarks” made during the prosecution’s closing argument, which implied that Liang had shot Gurley intentionally.

Why Are Black Girls And Women Dying In Police Custody?

February 9, 2016 Tasasha Henderson, www.truth-out.org Educate! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Girls, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Black Women, police brutality

By Tasasha Henderson for Truthout - Gynna McMillen was brought into the Lincoln Village Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, on January 10, 2016, after police were called to her mother's house about a "domestic incident." The next morning she was found unresponsive in a cell. What happened to her? Why is she dead after less than 24 hours in the detention facility? These are questions being asked by Gynna's family and others concerned about the deaths of Black people in police custody.

Beyonce Pays Tribute To Black Panthers, Malcolm X & #BLM At Superbowl

February 8, 2016 Chris Pleasance, www.dailymail.co.uk Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Black Panthers, Entertainment

By Chris Pleasance for Daily Mail - Beyonce gets political at the Super Bowl: Singer performs 'Black Lives Matter rallying cry' - as her dancers dress as Black Panthers, pay tribute to Malcolm X and demand justice for man shot dead by cops. Beyonce issued a strong political statement with her halftime show at Super Bowl 50 on Sunday with backing dancers dressed as members of armed rights group the Black Panthers. The superstar brought the dancers on for her new single Formation which is being widely touted as a rallying cry for the Black Lives Matter movement.

#BLM Activists In LA Were Shackled In Jail Over Christmas

February 1, 2016 Hillel Aron, www.laweekly.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Los Angeles, Protesters Arrested

By Hillel Aron for LA Weekly - In the two days before Christmas, Black Lives Matter activists staged protests nationwide. Hundreds swarmed the Mall of America in Minneapolis. Protestors in Chicago hit the area's so-called "Magnificent Mile" shopping district. And in Los Angeles, a dozen or so activists shut down our most sacred of cows: the 405 freeway. Activists were arrested in Chicago, Minneapolis and elsewhere, but according to Melina Abdullah, L.A.'s protestors were dealt with particularly harshly.

UC Irvine Black Student Union Demands End To Campus Police

January 30, 2016 Matt Coker, www.ocweekly.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), California, Police, Police Abolition, Student Protests, University of California

By Matt Coker for OC Weekly - According to an online petition, the Black Student Union at UC Irvine is demanding the abolition of the campus police department, calling contemporary police forces “modern incarnations of the antebellum plantation and slave patrols." The demand made via Change.org to UCI Chancellor Howard Gillman and the administrations of UCI and the University of California states, “The problem is that policing as an institution is unethical; it accompanies anti-Black violence.” There were 240 signatures as of Wednesday afternoon toward a goal of only 500.

Ousted Mizzou President Blames #BLM & Football Team

January 30, 2016 Jordan Sargent, www.gawker.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Student Protests, University of Missouri

By Jordan Sargent for Gawker - Ten days ago, Tim Wolfe—the ex-University of Missouri System president who famously stepped down from his position last November after a black student’s hunger strike made the state’s flagship campus in Columbia the focus of a national discussion regarding the treatment of minority college students—sent an email to confidants that he labeled “CONFIDENTIAL.” In the message, which was first reported by local papers in Missouri and stretches five pages, Wolfe presents a bullet point list of people who he believes made it impossible for him to keep his job

NY Board Finds Cop Used Excessive Force Against Occupier

January 29, 2016 Keegan Stephan, www.theatlantic.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), NYPD, police brutality

By Keegan Stephan for PINAC - The Civilian Complaint Review Board, the New York City agency that investigates cases of NYPD misconduct, has substantiated complaints of a police sergeant using a chokehold on a Black Lives Matter protester that I caught on video in August of last year. The banned maneuver, which contributed to the death of Eric Garner, sparking Black Lives Matter demonstrations in New York City, was deployed during the arrest of two protesters at a “People’s Monday” action, a weekly demonstration that highlights cases of police brutality from around the country, and which has regularly been met with police brutality.

Minneapolis Police Office Apologizes For ‘Run Them Over’ Post

January 23, 2016 Mara H. Gottfried, www.twincities.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Minneapolis, Police abuse

By Mara H. Gottfried for Twin Cities - A St. Paul police sergeant issued a public apology Wednesday for a Facebook comment to "run them over" about an upcoming Black Lives Matter march, but the mayor and others said they continue to be outraged. Sgt. Jeffrey Rothecker, who is on paid leave from the department and is the subject of an internal affairs investigation, said he is "extremely sorry" and understood "the post was insensitive and wrong." "My poor choice of words conveyed a message I did not intend and am not proud of," Rothecker said in a statement.

Bogus Charges Dropped In Ferguson

January 23, 2016 Mariah Stewart, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Ferguson, Protesters Arrested, St. Louis

By Mariah Stewart for The Huffington Post - ST. LOUIS -- Charges against six people arrested at a vigil remembering the 2014 police killing of teenager Michael Brown were dropped Thursday by a prosecutor without explanation. Ferguson prosecutor Stephanie Karr, who isn’t known for leniency in dealing with Ferguson demonstrators and is facing at least one ethics complaint, withdrew the charges in a handwritten letter as trial was about to begin. The six defendants, who had been held for trial in earlier preliminary hearings, exchanged hugs and smiles.

Complaint Filed Against Cop, Threatened Protesters With Car

January 23, 2016 Michael Nigro, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Cleveland, Police abuse, Protests

By Michael Nigro for The Huffington Post - During the Tamir Rice protest in downtown Cleveland, on December 29, 2015, police officer Brian Dorin, after using his cop car to "win" a game-of-chicken versus street protesters, rolled down his window and yelled at a 25-year-old black student-activist, "Do you want to be the next one." The incident is recounted in my Huffington photo essay published on January 8, 2016. Alana Belle, the student-activist to whom the phrase was directed, has now filed a complaint against Officer Dorin through the Office of Professional Standards (OPS), a civilian run police review board.

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