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Banlieues Debout Movement Targets Police Brutality, Economic Hardship

August 27, 2016 Ericka Schiche, www.occupy.com , , ,
By Ericka Schiche for Occupy - The banlieues, suburbs existing beyond the Périphérique on the outskirts of Paris, are part of a complex socioeconomic and cultural world which is seldom viewed outside the context of its issues and problems. It is a place only its working class residents truly know, and their stories often do not mirror the scenes in La Haine. With his 1960 black and white short film "L'Amour existe," referenced by Luc Sante in his book The Other Paris, Maurice Pialat introduced the banlieue not as the regressive dystopian zone it is frequently described as these days, but simply as a place to live and enjoy life.

Deaf Man Killed By Cop Was “Afraid” Of Police

August 27, 2016 Staff, www.thefreethoughtproject.com ,
By Staff of The Free Thought Project - Charlotte, NC — (RT) The North Carolina man killed by a state trooper last week was “afraid” of police because of previous misunderstandings due to his deafness, his brother said. Daniel Harris was shot and killed outside his home in Charlotte, North Carolina last week. State Trooper Jermaine Saunders said he chased Harris for 10 miles after attempting to pull him over for speeding on Interstate 485. Harris, who was deaf, could not hear the siren – or the trooper’s commands – and was attempting to communicate in sign language when Saunders shot him.

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.

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.

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.

Violent Protests Erupt In Milwaukee After Police Kill Suspect At Traffic Stop

August 15, 2016 Brendan O’Brien, www.reuters.com , ,
By Brendan O’Brien for Reuters - MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - The National Guard was activated on Sunday to help authorities should further rioting erupt in a predominantly black Milwaukee neighborhood where a policeman killed a suspect who officials said had turned toward the officer with a gun. Police Chief Edward Flynn said a silent video of the incident appeared to show the officer acting within lawful bounds in the shooting of Sylville K. Smith, 23, on Saturday after Smith fled a traffic stop. Flynn said the video from the officer’s body camera showed Smith turning toward the officer with a gun in his hand.

9 Critical Points On Anti-Blackness And Immigration

August 14, 2016 Raul Alcaraz-Ochoa, Jorge Gutierrez, Alan Pelaez and Deborah Alemu, www.telesurtv.net , , ,
By Raul Alcaraz-Ochoa, Jorge Gutierrez, Alan Pelaez and Deborah Alemu for Telesur TV. An Open Letter to the Immigrant Rights Movement: In light of the brutal murders of Alton Sterling, Philando Castille, Delrawn Smalls Dempsey, Alva Braziel, Joyce Quaweay, Skye Mockabee and Korryn Gaines, anti-Blackness, patriarchy and transphobia need to profoundly and urgently be addressed within immigrant rights organizing, now more than ever. Although non-Black Latinx solidarity with Black lives has increased and grown, there is still a lot of work to be done. How do Latinxs and the immigrant rights movement navigate anti-Blackness? First of all what is anti-Blackness? “Anti-Blackness is not simply the racist actions of a white man with a grudge nor is it only a structure of racist discrimination—anti-blackness is the paradigm that binds blackness and death together so much so that one cannot think of one without the other,"
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."

LAPD Officer Receives Community Service After Beating Handcuffed Man Unconscious

August 13, 2016 Andrew Emett, www.nationofchange.org ,
By Andrew Emett for Nation of Change - Captured on video beating an apprehended suspect unconscious, an LAPD officer will avoid serving any jail time after prosecutors agreed to community service and probation instead. Although a Los Angeles police official described the unprovoked assault as “horrific,” the LAPD and District Attorney’s office continue to suppress the footage from the public. Shortly after noon on October 16, 2014, Clinton Alford Jr. was riding his bicycle home in South Los Angeles when a car pulled up behind him with the driver ordering him to stop.

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.

Freddie Gray Death: Remaining Charges Dropped Against Police Officers

July 28, 2016 Baynard Woods, www.theguardian.com , , ,
By Baynard Woods for The Guardian - Baltimore prosecutors have dropped all remaining charges against police officers in the death of Freddie Gray. The surprise announcement Wednesday comes after four trials that ended withno conviction, and means there will likely be no criminal accountability over Gray’s death. Gray, a 25-year-old African American man, sustained fatal injuries in the back of a police van in April 2015. Video of Gray’s arrest that showed officers dragging a screaming Gray on the ground drew international outrage.

Police Incitement Against Black Lives Matter Is Putting Protesters in Danger

July 28, 2016 Sarah Lazare, www.alternet.org , ,
By Sarah Lazare for AlterNet - From the floor of the Republican National Convention to the online pages of the Blue Lives Matter Facebook community, it is now commonplace for public officials, police and first responders to openly declare war on Black Lives Matter—the civil rights movement of our times. In some cases, this climate has given way to overt intimidation, with the captain of the Columbia, South Carolina fire department fired earlier this month for threatening to run over Black Lives Matter protesters, followed by the termination of three other first responders for related offenses.

Why We Dream About A World Without Police

July 23, 2016 William C. Anderson, www.kzoo.edu ,
By William C. Anderson for Praxis Center - The last few years have been rough. President Obama’s last term in the White House has given many of us some of the most polarizing times we have ever experienced. It goes without saying that many have felt hopeless after being promised a change. Political disillusionment has clouded the air in a country struggling to find its true identity. In the midst of all this, unrelenting police violence has been in the spotlight driven by organized resistance to police brutality and renewed media interest.
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