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In DC: Join Mothers Who Have Lost Children To Police Violence

December 7, 2014 Nathan Sherd, www.codepink.org , , , ,
Voices of Grief and Struggle: Mothers Come to Washington DC to Demand Police Accountability. Hosted by Mothers Against Police Brutality, CODEPINK, National Congress of Black Women and Hands Up DC Coalition, mothers who have lost their children to police brutality will travel to Washington DC from December 9-11 to call for police accountability, policy reform and justice for victims’ families. The group will also pave the way for a larger gathering in Washington DC on Mothers Day. The women will come to Washington to advocate for changing existing laws that leave families vulnerable to police brutality and accountability loopholes. The changes they’d like to see include effective civilian reviews of police misconduct; transparency in investigations of police officers; a comprehensive, public national-level database of police shootings; and significant reforms to the 1033 program and other federal programs that equip police departments with military gear.

Missouri Students Risk Serious Penalties For Walkout Protests

December 7, 2014 Mariah Stewart, www.huffingtonpost.com , , ,
After high school students across the country walked out of class earlier this week calling for greater police accountability, one school district in the very Missouri county where teenager Michael Brown was killed chose to highlight the repercussions for students who left their classrooms. Hazelwood School District in north St. Louis County also consulted with local law enforcement to increase school security. The stricter security measures made Hazelwood West High School feel like “a prison,” one student said. “At lunch there are officers at every exit, and you can’t leave class to use the bathroom without a police escort,” the student told The Huffington Post. After Hazelwood high school students walked out on Tuesday, Superintendent Grayling Tobias issued a statement noting that the district does "not condone disruptive behavior."

National Day Of Action On Police BrutalityFor MLK Day

December 6, 2014 Faraji Muhammad, Kamau Franklin and Sharmini Peries, www.therealnews.com , , ,
I think many folks are not surprised by the outcome. And recently I've been saying to folks clearly that we should stop saying that the American criminal justice system is broken, because it's not broken. It's working the way it was intended to work. It was up to us in the organizing community and other communities to make changes to that system. But that system is working the way it was built to work. And like you said, I have been around, unfortunately, for these decisions in terms of my activist life since the Rodney King fiasco back in the early '90s and that was caught on videotape.

Undercover Cops Busted At Anti-Police Brutality Protest

December 6, 2014 Moreh B. D. K., www.countercurrentnews.com , , ,
Have you ever been to a protest and wondered who the new, overly-zealous guy is? In activist circles, it’s pretty common for people to travel to neighboring cities, or even states for important rallies. But the circles are small, and someone usually knowns a person or two in common, even with people they just met. Sometimes, your gut is steering you right, and it’s not your imagination, nor being overly-suspicious: the new guy might just be an undercover cop. Now on the surface, the joke seems to be on the undercover officers. There is nothing illegal about protesting police brutality, or anything else really. So why would they waste their time going undercover as protesters?

Police Department That Kills Highest Rate Of Unarmed Citizens

December 5, 2014 Max Blumenthal, www.alternet.org , ,
A damning report released this April by the Department of Justice concluded that the “Albuquerque police department engages in a pattern or practice of unconstitutional use of deadly force.” It went on to accuse members of the department of having “shot and killed civilians who did not pose an imminent threat of serious bodily harm or death to the officers or others.” The report singled out Wallace for killing Gomez when "no one's life was in danger and an APD negotiator was on his way to the scene.'' When I visited Albuquerque this October, local civil liberties activists explained the city’s plague of lethal police violence in a broader context of racism and economic inequality. The legacy of settler-colonialism and its echo in the immigration crisis has cultivated an atmosphere of racially charged brutality.

Voices Of Grief And Struggle: Mothers Come To Washington

December 5, 2014 Nathan Sheard, www.code-codepink.nationbuilder.com , ,
Aimed to coincide with International Human Rights Day (December 10), this delegation will consist of nine women from different parts of the country—from New York to Texas to California. The group will also pave the way for a larger gathering in Washington DC on Mothers Day. The women will come to Washington to advocate for changing existing laws that leave families vulnerable to police brutality and accountability loopholes. The changes they’d like to see include effective civilian reviews of police misconduct; transparency in investigations of police officers; a comprehensive, public national-level database of police shootings; and significant reforms to the 1033 program and other federal programs that equip police departments with military gear.

What Ferguson Can Teach The Food Movement

December 5, 2014 Eric Holt-Giménez, www.foodfirst.org , , ,
As a person of mixed heritage I know that racism has tangled roots: white privilege, internalized oppression, fear, guilt, grief. I also know that while it is structural, it is also visceral, bound up in our psyche and our emotions, hard to get at and painful to work through. This is why many people in the food movement choose not to address it. They are afraid that addressing racism is just too hard, too complicated and too messy. They’re afraid that bringing up the issues of oppression and privilege will end up dividing the movement rather than strengthening it. They’re afraid. They are also mistaken. We can’t have a just judicial system, or an impartial law enforcement system, or build a sustainable food system on the foundation of an oppressive social and economic system.

Obama Appoints Corrupt Police Chief To Panel To Improve Policing

December 5, 2014 Carey Wedler, www.theantimedia.org , ,
When a politician claims to improve an oppressive condition, there is usually an unspoken catch. This week, President Barack Obama unveiled his plan to deal with police brutality and militarization (which he helped to enable over the course of his presidency). He has ordered $263 million for 50,000 body cameras and called for restrictions and oversight on military equipment. Though on its face the plan has good intentions, it has already been criticized by activists and the media. One of the most disingenuous elements of Obama’s master plan is his appointment of Philadelphia Police Commissioner, Charles Ramsey, to chair the “Task Force on 21st Cenutry Policing.”Ramsey is co-chairing the task force with Laurie Robinson, a former assistant attorney general and professor at George Mason University.

Journalism Shreds Case Of Darren Wilson

December 4, 2014 ShelLawson, www.kansasexposed.org , , , , ,
Alright y’all. I’d like to clear a few things up. This is a general address to the long list of misconceptions and inconsistencies and abuses of power that exist surrounding the killing of Mike Brown. I have researched these points and provided sources in case you wish to do some reading of your own. -The most common misconception I’m hearing is that Mike Brown was significantly larger than Officer Wilson. This is incorrect. On page 198 of the official grand jury transcript, you can see that Officer Wilson testifies he is 6 ft 4 and weighs 210 lbs, the same size as Mike Brown. Mike Brown was NOT stopped because he was a suspect in crime. He and his friend Dorian Johnson were stopped for jaywalking, as Darren Wilson testifies to on page 208 of his grand jury testimony. -Mike Brown WAS fleeing from Officer Wilson when he was fatally shot. Wilson confirms this on page 281 of his grand jury testimony.

Basketball Player Ariyana Smith Says Protest ‘Last Resort’

December 4, 2014 Tom Loewy, www.galesburg.com , ,
Ariyana Smith is a 19-year-old African-American woman. A junior and integrated international studies major at Knox College. And a forward on the women's basketball team. Last week Smith decided to be something else. "It was after our game last Tuesday against Rockford College," Smith said. "We played at home and after the game we were at one of the players' apartments, and I was watching my Twitter feed and seeing pictures from Ferguson. People being tear-gassed. People being arrested. "I saw people putting themselves out on that line. Standing up to call attention to the fact black lives matter. And I decided it was time to put myself on that line, too. It was time for me to stand up and be counted."

Police’s Story Of Shooting 12-year-old Tamir Rice Doesn’t Match Video

December 4, 2014 German Lopez, www.vox.com , , ,
Cleveland Police officials told a different story about what happened to Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old shot and killed by a Cleveland Police officer over the weekend of November 22, than what's visible in the available video footage of the shooting. MSNBC's Chris Hayes broke down some the discrepancies between the police's side of the story and what actually happened, and what can be seen in the video surveillance footage released by police a couple days after the shooting. Police said, according to the Plain Dealer, that Rice was sitting under a pavilion in the park with a few people, suggesting that the boy could have been a threat to others. But the video footage shows Rice was sitting alone as police pulled up. Police also claimed, according to the Associated Press, that the officer who opened fire on Rice asked the boy to put his hands up three times, suggesting that Rice was given ample warning before he was shot.

NYPD’s Long History Of Killing Unarmed Black Men

December 4, 2014 Christopher Mathias and Carly Schwartz, www.huffingtonpost.com , , ,
Eric Garner was a 43-year-old father of six and grandfather of two. The tall, 400-pound man, who was known around his Staten Island neighborhood as a "gentle giant" nicknamed "Big E," was approached Thursday outside a New York City store by a group of NYPD officers who accused him of selling contraband cigarettes. “I didn’t do shit!” Garner can be seen telling cops in a video of the incident. “I was just minding my own business." It’s a familiar course of events. NYPD officers have a long history of killing unarmed individuals. They’re rarely punished for their actions. And the majority of their victims, like Garner, are black men. Earlier this week marked the 50th anniversary of the death of James Powell, a 15-year-old black student who was shot and killed by a white police officer outside a Harlem apartment building. Powell’s death sparked a series of riots across the country in what came to be known as the “long, hot summer.”

New York City Protests Eric Garner Decision

December 4, 2014 Hunter Stuart, www.huffingtonpost.com , , , , ,
New York City residents took to the streets on Wednesday after a grand jury said it would not bring charges in the death of Eric Garner, a Staten Island man who died in July after a police officer placed him in a chokehold. Garner, 43, was being arrested for selling loose, untaxed cigarettes on July 17 when New York City Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo placed him in an illegal chokehold. The medical examiner ruled Garner's death a homicide, but the grand jury said Wednesday it would not indict Pantaleo. Demonstrators gathered across the city, from the Staten Island neighborhood where Garner died to high-traffic areas in midtown Manhattan. They assembled in Times Square, Union Square and Lincoln Center. They marched down Broadway and blocked traffic on the West Side Highway. Police scrambled to keep the crowd from disrupting the Christmas tree lighting ceremony at Rockefeller Center. Nearly three dozen demonstrators were reportedly arrested, though the protests remained largely non-violent.

Knox College Suspends Player After Mike Brown Action

December 3, 2014 Jazmine Michole, www.buzzfeed.com ,
On Saturday, November 29, 2014, days after the Grand Jury Decision, Knox College Women’s Basketball Player Ariyana Smith bravely held a one woman demonstration at the Knox College v. Fontbonne University game held in Clayton, MO. During the singing of the national anthem, Ariyana walked with her hands up towards the American flag and fell to the ground for a full 4.5 minutes to bring awareness to the inhumane killing of Micheal Brown in which his body was left to lay on a neighborhood street for 4.5 hours. While Ariyana lay on the ground in honor of fallen black lives, she was told to move so they could start the game. Refusing to compromise the integrity of the movement, Ariyana stood after the full 4.5 minutes with her fist proudly in their air.

Ferguson Protesters In Portland Build On Occupy Wall Street

December 3, 2014 Anna Griffin, www.oregonlive.com , ,
Zuccotti Park and the Ferguson, Missouri, street where Wilson shot Michael Brown sit almost 1,000 miles apart. But in terms of their recent impact, they're practically next-door neighbors. As they did three years ago, marchers the past week have opted for civil disobedience rather than simply making speeches and rallying in front of Portland civic landmarks. They've held "die ins," led police on long, winding marches through downtown, filled Willamette River bridges during rush hour and attempted to seize Interstate 5. The crowds have included black-clad anarchists and a few Occupy-style protesters inGuy Fawkes masks. The large groups have advocated for a number of causes besides police reform, including a $15 minimum wage, policies to stop gentrification and government disinvestment in multinational corporations.
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