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Filmed Death Of Eric Garner; Now He’s Being Jailed

September 2, 2016 Christopher Mathias, www.huffingtonpost.com , ,
By Christopher Mathias for The Huffington Post - LAS VEGAS ― Ramsey Orta says he’ll wake up crying sometimes, and he won’t know why. A few days will pass, and suddenly he’ll remember the dream. The one where he’s on that block in Staten Island, on that cool July day, filming a police officer putting his friend Eric Garner into a chokehold. Only this time, Orta feels an arm wrap around his own neck, squeezing tighter and tighter. Until he can’t breathe. “And then it just goes all black,” Orta said.

Black Youth, Single Mothers Are Not Responsible For Systemic Failings

September 1, 2016 Charmaine Lang, www.rewire.news , , ,
By Charmaine Lang for Rewire - On the day 23-year-old Sylville Smith was killed by a Milwaukee police officer, the city’s mayor, Tom Barrett, pleaded publicly with parents to tell their children to come home and leave protests erupting in the city. In a August 13 press conference, Barrett said: “If you love your son, if you love your daughter, text them, call them, pull them by the ears, and get them home. Get them home right now before more damage is done. Because we don’t want to see more loss of life, we don’t want to see any more injuries.”

Mass Outrage Forces Re-Suspension Of Cop Who Killed Philando Castile

August 26, 2016 Matt Agorist, www.thefreethoughtproject.com , , ,
By Matt Agorist for The Free Thought Proect - In a blow to the family and friends of Philando Castile, the officer who is responsible for his death, Jeronimo Yanez was allowed to return to work last week. However, his return was met with such a firestorm of complaints, anger, and protests, Yanez was put back on paid administrative leave. After only one week on the job, Yanez is now back at home on paid vacation. On Wednesday afternoon, the city released the following statement explaining the reasoning behind their decision...

Black Family Gets Robbed. Husband Calls Police. Police Shoot Husband.

August 26, 2016 Shaun King, www.readersupportednews.org , ,
By Shaun King for New York Daily News - Few cases typify everything that is wrong with gun rights, police brutality and racial profiling like this one. Early Tuesday in Indianapolis, an African-American woman was being carjacked in front of her home in her working class neighborhood. She ran back in the house, told her husband, who is also black, and they called the police to report the robbery. That seemed to be the right and safe thing to do. As the police pulled up, the husband, who was later identified as 48-year-old Carl Williams, opened the garage to their home and was immediately shot in the gut by police.

Newsletter: #NoHoneymoon, A Presidency Of Protest

August 20, 2016 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.PopularResistance.org , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance. The task of the movement for economic, racial and environmental justice is much bigger than the presidential election. Our job is to build people power to ensure that no matter who is the next president, the people’s voices are heard and our demands are part of the political agenda. We urge organizers and advocates across the nation to begin to plan a campaign beginning in early 2017 and carrying on through the inauguration to ensure that right from the beginning the people’s voices are a dominant narrative. The #NoHoneymoon campaign will take various forms in communities across the country. Talk to your networks of activists and plan what would work best in your community. The creativity and energy that comes from diverse leadership has surprised the nation before and can do so again.

‘A Vision For Black Lives’ Is A Vision For Everyone

August 19, 2016 George Lakey, www.wagingnonviolence.org ,
By George Lakey for Waging Nonviolence - On August 1, the Movement for Black Lives, with support from dozens of related organizations, issued its vision of a transformed United States that could realize racial justice. The vision is a major step forward in coherence and clarity for a still-young grassroots insurgency, and deserves the attention of allies everywhere. As you would expect from the movement’s origins, the document leads with the need to stop the institutionalized practices and justifications for violence against black people. The writers place black queer women, trans, unemployed and incarcerated youth at the center since those groups are a margin within the marginalized black community.

NYC Agrees To Pay Over $4 Million To Family Of Akai Gurley

August 18, 2016 Andrew Emett, www.nationofchange.org , , , , ,
By Andrew Emett for Nation of Change - After an NYPD officer accidentally killed an innocent, unarmed man inside a dark housing project stairwell, the city and the New York City Housing Authority have recently agreed to pay Akai Gurley’s family more than $4.1 million to settle their wrongful death lawsuit. Although the officer was fired and initially convicted of manslaughter, a judge reduced the charge and sentenced him to community service instead of serving jail time. On November 20, NYPD officers Peter Liang and Shaun Landau were conducting vertical patrols on the eighth floor of the Louis H. Pink housing project in Brooklyn.

New York To Pay $4.5 Million To Settle Police Killing Lawsuit

August 17, 2016 Staff, www.reuters.com , , , ,
By Staff of Reuters - The city of New York has settled for $4.5 million a lawsuit over the 2014 police killing of an unarmed black man in an unlit stairwell that sparked demonstrations around the city, officials said. The settlement comes amid a wave of angry protests that have roiled the United States over the past two years in response to high-profile police killings of unarmed black men, with the most recent killing in Milwaukee unleashing rioting.

In Solidarity With Movement For Black Lives

August 16, 2016 Staff, www.endtheoccupation.org , ,
By Staff of End The Occupation - Last week, the Movement for Black Lives released its policy platform, articulating a visionary agenda for Black power, freedom, and justice. On the second anniversary of Mike Brown's killing by a cop in Ferguson, we at the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation fully endorse the platform and recommit to the urgent work of dismantling the systems that dehumanize Black people, devalue Black lives, and allow for the state to kill Black men, women, and children with impunity.

Milwaukee Declares Curfew After Protests Over Police Shooting

August 16, 2016 Brendan O’Brien, www.reuters.com , , ,
By Brendan O’Brien for Reuters - The city of Milwaukee imposed a 10 p.m. curfew on Monday in an attempt to quell rioting that erupted the previous two nights in response to the police shooting of an armed black man in one of the most segregated cities in the United States. Mayor Tom Barrett also renewed his call for state officials to release a video of the Saturday night shooting in hopes it convinces angry protesters that deadly force against Sylville K. Smith, 23, was justified.

Arresting Development

August 16, 2016 Bakari Kitwana, www.colorlines.com , , ,
By Bakari Kitwana for Color Lines - At the height of the presidential primary season in March, about 30 activists gathered at St. Louis' Peabody Opera House to protest a Donald Trump campaign rally there. One of the activists, Melissa McKinnies, says that even before the Republican candidate took the stage, his supporters were chanting, “Build a wall! U.S.A! Build a wall! U.S.A!” McKinnies, a 40-year-old Black mother of three who was a consistent fixture at the protests in Ferguson followingMichael Brown’s death, was among 20 Black and Latino protesters stationed on the ground floor trying to be heard above the din.
Family spokesman and activist Ja'Mal Green, attorney Michael Oppenheimer and Briana Adams, sister of Paul O'Neal, spoke to the news media Aug. 5, 2016, after viewing footage of the July 28 police shooting death of 18-year-old O'Neal. Protesters gathered at Chicago police headquarters later in the day.

City Declines To Identify Cops In O’Neal Fatal Shooting

August 13, 2016 Dan Hinkel, www.chicagotribune.com , , ,
By Dan Hinkel for Chicago Tribune - Chicago officials have declined to identify the police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Paul O'Neal, citing in part alleged dangers faced by the officers if their names became public. The Independent Police Review Authority declined to give the officers' names in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by the Tribune, releasing a document Tuesday with the officers' names blacked out. The agency cited, among other parts of state records law, a clause that allows an agency to withhold information if disclosure would "endanger the life or physical safety of law enforcement personnel or any other person."

George Zimmerman 2.0 Kills Unarmed Black Man In North Carolina

August 12, 2016 Jonathan Drew, www.news.nationalpost.com , , ,
By Jonathan Drew for The Associatd Press - RALEIGH, N.C. — A young black man shot to death while leaving a house party – allegedly by the host’s white neighbor – was described by his mother Tuesday as loving, funny, and so careful that his family called him “Safety 101.” Kouren-Rodney Bernard Thomas was killed early Sunday when a man living two doors down from the party called police to complain of “hoodlums” in his neighborhood, and then fired a shotgun out of his garage, according to authorities and 911 tapes.

Look, Black People Aren’t Lying About Police Violence

August 12, 2016 Julia Craven, www.huffingtonpost.com , , ,
By Julia Craven for The Huffington Post - A damning report from the Justice Department found that the Baltimore Police Department routinely used excessive force, retaliated against citizens for exercising their First Amendment rights and committed other civil rights abuses. Baltimore police officers often stopped, frisked and arrested residents unconstitutionally. The report, formally released on Wednesday, also says officers within the department were purposefully careless in sexual assault cases, used slurs against LGBT people and, in some cases, were told by supervisors to target black residents and “lock up all the black hoodies.”

It’s Time We Recognize Black Lives Matter Behind Bars, Too

August 12, 2016 J. Soffiyah Elijah, www.ebony.com , ,
By J. Soffiyah Elijah for Ebony - Similar to police officers on the streets, violence between guards in jails and prisons is a crucial problem that has gone from brutality to outright homicide. As is the case with police violence, African Americans and other people of color are disproportionately the victims of abuse at the hands of prison and jail officials. Last week, the shocking video footage of Darius Robinson’s April 4, 2016 death while in police custody was released.
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