police brutality

What Happens When You Survive A Police Shooting In Baltimore?

January 19, 2016 Baynard Woods, www.theguardian.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Baltimore, Black Lives Matter (BLM), police brutality

By Baynard Woods for The Guardian - On 7 June 2015, Baltimore was still reeling from the unrest that had put thousands of citizens at odds with battalions of police dressed in riot gear in the aftermath of the death of Freddie Gray. May had been the city’s most violent month since the 1970s. More than 40 people had been murdered in the city and more than 100 others non-fatally shot in the month since the hopeful day when state’s attorney Marilyn Mosby told the city that she felt its pain as she announced she would press charges against the officers tied to Gray’s death in the back of a police van.

Maryland Cop Who Put Gun To Man’s Head Gets 5 Years

January 9, 2016 Staff, www.fox5dc.com Resist! Maryland, police brutality

By Staff of FOX 5 - BOWIE, Md. - The Prince George's County Police officer who held a gun to a man’s head and mouth during a stop was sentenced to five years in prison. Jenchesky Santiago was sentenced Friday. The incident was captured on cell phone video back in May of 2014 in Bowie and happened while the man was being dropped off at his own home. Prosecutors say Santiago accused the victim of parking illegally even though he had not.

Calls Mount For Outside Probes Of Police Shootings

January 4, 2016 Lydia Wheeler, www.thehill.com Create! police brutality, Police Shootings

By Lydia Wheeler for The Hill - Bipartisan support in Washington for criminal justice reform in the wake of a series of police killings could provide an opening for efforts to impose independent prosecutions of officers who use deadly force in the line of duty. Dozens of Democrats are pushing a bill to withhold federal funds from municipalities unwilling to allow third-party prosecutions. The issue has returned to the fore after a grand jury in Cleveland decided on Monday not to bring charges against police officers in the shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice. “We’ve been on break for two weeks when a lot of this has hit the fan, particularly in Cleveland,” said Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.), the bill's author.

New Year’s Eve Protest Demands Police Reforms In 2016

January 3, 2016 John Zangas, www.dcmediagroup.us Resist! Accountability, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Police abuse, police brutality

By John Zangas for DC Media Group. Washington, DC — Hundreds rallied in the Chinatown district on New Year’s Eve in protest of police killings of Black women and men over the past year. Protesters briefly shut down intersections as they walked along the 14th and U Street corridors. They ended at the African-American Civil War Memorial on U Street. The rally was organized by Black Lives Matter DMV, Stop Police Terror Project-DC, Black Youth Project 100 and several other groups. Organizers demanded changes to the justice system which permits police to walk away from shootings, often without any charges being filed by prosecutors. Activists focused on several recent high-profile cases where police have killed Blacks under questionable circumstances.

Oregonians Protest Reinstating Cop Fired Over Fatal Shooting

January 1, 2016 Andrew Theen, www.oregonlive.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), police brutality, Portland

By Andrew Theen for The Oregonian - A group of protesters gathered Thursday morning outside Portland City Hall to oppose a court ruling this week requiring the city rehire Ron Frashour, a police officer who was fired after he fatally shot an unarmed black man in the back. The Albina Ministerial Alliance Coalition for Justice and Police Reform organized Thursday's demonstration, one day after the Oregon Court of Appeals sided with an arbitrator's ruling to reinstate Frashour. 2012 Statement From Marva Davis, The Mother Of Aaron CampbellKate Lore, a social justice minister with the First Unitarian Church of Portland, reads a statement from 2012 by Marva Davis about Portland Police officer Ron Frashour and the shooting death of Davis's son, Aaron Campbell.

Harvard Medical: Police Killings Public Health Epidemic

December 30, 2015 Dylan Sevett, www.usuncut.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), police brutality

By Dylan Sevett for US Uncut - Harvard researchers have called on US Public Health Agencies to consider police killings and police deaths public health issues. With that request, researches are also echoing numerous activists who are urging them to begin tracking the number of people killed by police. The proposal was inspired by a year of continuous protests and public pressure from the #BlackLivesMatter movement, which stemmed from the murder of unarmed Michael Brown on August 9, 2014, and the consistent police murders and protests that have happened since.

Why Did The Washington Post Try To Mislead On Police Killings?

December 30, 2015 Jim Naureckas, www.fair.org Educate! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Media, police brutality

By Jim Naureckas for FAIR - Concerned that official records undercount the number of people shot and killed by police in the United States every year, theWashington Post(12/26/15) attempted to compile a list of every fatal police shooting in 2015. The paper found nearly a thousand such cases—more than twice as many as the FBI reports in a typical year. The Post‘s project—which corroborates a similar tally conducted by the BritishGuardian (6/9/15)—is a journalistic accomplishment, as well as an achievement of the Black Lives Matter movement, which has worked to call attention to police violence in the wake of the killing of Michael Brown by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, in August 2014.

Families Of 2 Fatally Shot Call For Police To Improve Interaction

December 29, 2015 Patrick M. O'Connell and Tony Briscoe, www.chicagotribune.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Chicago, police brutality

Patrick M. O'Connell and Tony Briscoe for The Chicago Tribune - Family members of two people killed by Chicago police during a weekend shooting said Sunday they are outraged and heartbroken by their loved ones' deaths, joining activists to call for sweeping changes in the way officers interact with black residents throughout the city. "Police are supposed to serve us and protect us, and instead they kill us," said Janet Cooksey, whose 19-year-old son, Quintonio LeGrier, was shot and killed early Saturday when police were called to his father's house in the West Garfield Park neighborhood for a domestic disturbance. "What's wrong with this picture?"

I ‘Utterly Reject’ That Only Some Cops Are Bad

December 29, 2015 Staff, www.truthvoice.com/ Educate! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), police brutality

Quentin Tarantino continues to stand by anti-police comments he made earlier this fall in a new interview, saying he “completely rejects” the “bad apples” argument that only a small number of police officers behave inappropriately on the job. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly on Monday (and in an interview with Howard Sternlast week), the Hateful Eight director put the blame for some instances of police brutality on the “institutional racism” of the profession. “I completely and utterly reject the bad apples argument,” the director told EW. “Chicago just got caught with their pants down in a way that can’t be denied. But I completely and utterly reject the ‘few bad apples’ argument.

Black Lives Matter Protests Roil Cities Across The US

December 25, 2015 Matt Pearce, www.latimes.com Resist! Black Lives Matter (BLM), police brutality, Racism

By Matt Pearce for the LA Times. It's the most wonderful time of the year and a winter of discontent, a season of police bullhorns and Christmas lights. Demonstrators protesting police shootings of black men confronted last-minute holiday shoppers and travelers in California and the Midwest this week, seeing the crowds as an opportunity to draw attention to their cause. In Chicago on Thursday, more than 100 demonstrators marched down North Michigan Avenue, the city's premier shopping corridor, and laid down on the street for a "die-in." They also blocked access to some stores where Christmas Eve shoppers were hoping to wrap up their tardy gift-buying.

Grand Jury Does Not Indict Anyone For Sandra Bland’s Jailhouse Death

December 22, 2015 Staff, www.huffingtonpost.com Educate! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), police brutality, Protests, Sandra Bland

By Staff for The Huffington Post - HEMPSTEAD, Texas (AP) — A grand jury has decided no felony crime was committed by the sheriff's office or jailers in the treatment of a black woman who died in a Southeast Texas county jail last summer. But prosecutor Darrell Jordan said the Waller County grand jury reached no decision on whether the trooper who arrested 28-year-old Sandra Bland should face charges. The Chicago-area woman was pulled over July 10 by a Texas state trooper for making an improper lane change. Dashcam video showed their interaction quickly became confrontational and she was arrested for assault.

Join #DropTheCharges Campaign For Two Students In SC

December 19, 2015 Julia Craven, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), police brutality

By Julia Craven for The Huffington Post - A 16-year-old girl known as Shakara was placed in a chokehold, flipped over in her seat, then dragged and thrown across her classroom before being handcuffed by a South Carolina school officer in October. Video footage of the incident prompted the FBI and the Department of Justice to look into the incident and, after the Richland County Sheriff's Department conducted a 48-hour investigation into his conduct, Officer Ben Fields was fired. But the charges filed against Shakara and Niya Kenny, a classmate arrested for filming the incident, still stand.

#BlackLivesMatter Gets On The Legislative Agenda

December 18, 2015 Sarah Breitenbach, www.pewtrusts.org Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Law, police brutality, United States

By Sarah Breitenbach for The Pew Charitable Trust - Advocates for policing reform are expected to return to statehouses next month pushing for increased scrutiny of officers, transparency in police department proceedings and improved crisis training across law enforcement ranks. Backed by increasingly vocal public criticism following reports of police shootings and allegations of brutality in places like Chicago and Minneapolis, many civil rights advocates will ask lawmakers to revisit measures abandoned earlier this year. Samuel Walker, a policing expert and professor emeritus at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, said public dissatisfaction with police practices makes the upcoming legislative sessions ripe for action.

Hung Jury For Officer On Trial In Death Of Freddie Gray

December 17, 2015 Julia Craven, www.huffingtonpost.com Educate! #BlackLivesMatter, Baltimore, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Freddie Gray, police brutality

By Julia Craven for The Huffington Post - The jury could not reach a verdict in the case of Officer William Porter, the Baltimore cop charged in the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray. Porter, 26, is one of six officers who will stand trial in connection to the death of Gray, a black man who died after a “rough ride” in police custody in April. Porter was charged with manslaughter, second-degree assault, misconduct in office and reckless endangerment. He pleaded not guilty to all charges.

Protesters Calling For Mayor To Resign Arrested After Blocking Traffic

December 17, 2015 Tony Briscoe, www.chicagotribune.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Chicago, police brutality, Protests

By Tony Briscoe for The Chicago Tribune - Chicago police arrested 16 protesters who were calling for Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's and Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez's resignations as they impeded traffic by lying down on Congress Parkway in the Loop on Tuesday evening. The Chicago Light Brigade held its annual vigil for victims of violence in the city, after which organizers led a pop-up protest around 7 p.m. at Congress Parkway and Clark Street. Sixteen protesters formed a blockade spanning across Congress to represent the number of times 17-year-old Laquan McDonald was shot by police Officer Jason Van Dyke. Police said 16 people were eventually arrested.

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