police brutality

Police Target Journalists & Organizers In Police Brutality Protests

July 22, 2015 Unicorn Riot, www.unicornriot.ninja.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Freedom of Expression, Freedom of Press, Indigenous People, Journalism, police brutality

By Unicorn Riot - Protests in Denver continue in the wake of the killing of Paul Castaway by Denver police officers. Paul Castaway, a 35 year old enrolled member of the Rosebud Lakota nation, was killed July 12, 2015 after his mother called police for “mental help assistance.” His last words were, “What’s wrong with you guys?” as he held a knife to his own neck. Police claimed that Castaway ran at them with a knife, but local witnesses contradict police claims. Also contradicting the police claims is a yet to be released video reviewed by a local reporter who stated that it showed Castaway standing still at a distance when police shot him. On Monday, July 20th, protesters continued to take the streets in Denver demanding justice for Paul Castaway’s death and gathered outside a Police Chiefs meeting.

Unapologetic Black Anger Can Change The World For The Better

July 21, 2015 Chauncey de Vega, www.alternet.org Strategize! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Law, Mass Incarceration, police brutality, Racial Justice, White Supremacy

By Chauncey de Vega in Alternet - At the Socialism 2015 conference, Martinez Sutton, the brother of Rekia Boyd, a 22-year-old black woman killed by an offduty white Chicago cop who recklessly fired five shots into a crowd of people because he was supposedly upset that they were playing loud music, shared his story of anger and pain at a legal system that twisted justice in order to protect one of its enforcers of death and destruction on the black and brown body, as well as the poor of all colors. Sutton told the audience that he and his family will not forgive the cop who killed his sister. He called out how this expectation that black and brown folks should always forgive those who malign and hurt us is an absurdity.

Eric Garner’s Death Marked With Week-Long Protests In NYC

July 21, 2015 Keegan Stephan, www.animalnewyork.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Eric Garner, New York City (NYC), police brutality

By Keegan Stephan in Animal New York - Over the last week, New Yorkers marked the one-year anniversary of Eric Garner’s chokehold death with over a dozen events and actions across the city, from banner drops, to rallies with victims of police violence from around the country, to a march with over 1,000 people leading to dozens of arrests. The actions kicked off last Monday with a march on Staten Island organized by NYC Shut It Down (NYCSID) and led by Erica Garner, Eric’s oldest daughter and founder of the Garner Way Foundation. “It’s important to keep bringing actions to Staten Island,” Erica told ANIMAL, “because the police still haven’t reformed out there.” The march hit many locations directly connected to Eric Garner’s story, from the courthouse where the Grand Jury failed to indict Officer Pantaleo, to the NYPD’s 120th Precinct, where Pantaleo still works, to the spot where Eric died, just seven blocks away.

#BlackLivesMatter Convening Responds To State Of Emergency

July 21, 2015 Ashley Curtin, www.bullhorn.nationofchange.org Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), police brutality, Racial Justice, State of Emergency

By Ashley Curtin in Nation of Change - As the movement continues to grow, the freedom fighters will meet in Cleveland for the first ever Movement for Black Lives Convening to create a collective mission through months of action. The conference will take place from July 24-26 to "build a national community dedicated to permanently changing the country." “We have established a decentralized, but coordinated, movement that has already changed the discussion about racial justice and police violence; and now it is important that we gather, continue the discussion and build alignment,” Maurice Mitchell, organizer with the Movement for Black Lives, said in a press release “At the Convening we hope to see a collective vision emerge to build meaningful power and agency in the Black community.”

Presidential Candidates Interrupted By Black Lives Matter Activists

July 19, 2015 Sam Levine, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! 2016 Elections, Black Lives Matter (BLM), police brutality, Racism

By Sam Levine in Huffington Post. Phoenix, AZ - "Black Lives Matter" protesters interrupted Democratic presidential candidates Martin O'Malley, former governor of Maryland, and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) during their appearances Saturday at Netroots Nation, a progressive conference being held in Phoenix this year. O'Malley was interrupted after just one question during a panel discussion with Jose Antonio Vargas, and Sanders had barely begun speaking before he was cut off. Demonstrators began chanting, "What side are you on?" during a Q&A session with O'Malley. O'Malley allowed the protesters to finish, but drew boos when he said that "black lives matter, all lives matter, white lives matter," according to Washington Post reporter Dave Weigel. O'Malley later admitted that he made a mistake in his choice of words and said he did not mean any disrespect

Arrests On Anniversary Of Eric Garner’s Murder

July 19, 2015 Scott Heins, www.gothamist.com Resist! Black Lives Matter (BLM), Eric Garner, police brutality, Violence

By Scott Heins in The Gothamist. New York City, NY - Hundreds gathered in both Staten Island and Manhattan Friday to observe the one-year anniversary of Eric Garner's death at the hands of the NYPD. Amid a sea of homemade signs and protest chants that echoed throughout the afternoon and evening, Garner's last words were by far the most prominent—an impassioned, outraged refrain: "I Can't Breathe." As the day wore on, the somber rallies and vigils became defiant protest marches remembering Garner's death and condemning a Staten Island jury's decision not to indict Daniel Pantaleo , the NYPD officer who used an ultimately fatal chokehold while trying to arrest him on suspicion of selling loose cigarettes outside a deli.

Protesters Demand Answers In Sandra Bland’s Death

July 18, 2015 Renee Lewis, www.aljazeera.com Resist! Criminal Justice and Prisons, police brutality, Racism, Violence

By Renee Lewis in Al Jazeera. Hempstead, TX - More than 100 people staged a protest Friday outside the county jail in Hempstead, Texas, where a black woman was found dead one week ago after being arrested following an altercation with police. Officials have called the death a suicide. But protestors led by Quanell X — leader of the Houston New Black Panther Party — disputed that, shouting "No justice, no peace!" and "We demand answers!" Twenty-eight-year-old Sandra Bland was arrested during a July 10 traffic stop in the Texas town of Prairie Ville after allegedly kicking the officer who pulled her over. A witness said the policeman dragged Bland from her car and then roughly detained her. In a video showing the arrest, Bland can be heard saying the officer had slammed her head into the ground.

Holder’s Legacy: Corp’s Too Big to Jail, Protection Of Killer Cops

July 18, 2015 Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, www.blackagendareport.com Educate! Corporatism, Defense Attorney, Eric Holder, Gentrification, Law, police brutality

By Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo in Black Agenda Report - While the Holder Department of Justice deemed corporations and their millionaire executives as “too big to jail” it equally pursued a position that millions of black folks were not too big to be eviscerated by the mass incarceration prison system. The Holder doctrine of “too big to jail is ethnically indefensible but totally consistent with his legacy. Holder, for his part is satisfied with his political legacy: "I think I go out having accomplished a great deal in the areas that are of importance to me. I'm satisfied with the work we have done." But in the end, Holder’s legacy will be summarized in one sentence: the Attorney General who waltzed with Wall Street robbers and exonerated the killers of two unarmed Black boys, George Zimmerman and Darryl Wilson, which triggered the first African-American mass resistance movement of the 21st century. Period.

Activist Sandra Bland Dies After Minor Traffic Stop

July 18, 2015 Shaun King, www.dailykos.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, #SayHerName, Black Lives Matter (BLM), police brutality, Sandra Bland, Texas

By Shaun King in Daily Kos - Sandra Bland died in police custody this past Monday. Visiting Texas from Chicago to interview for a college job at her alma mater of Prairie View A&M, she was pulled over for a routine traffic violation (failure to use her turn signal). Everything from that point forward screams racism and foul play, including her death in the Waller County jail Monday. The first red flag is that Bland was officially arrested on Friday for assaulting a police officer. What we see from a bystander video is her telling the officers she is in pain and cannot hear after her head was slammed on the ground by the male arresting officer. The video is below. We have now learned that Waller County Sheriff Glenn Smith, who made the first public comments about Bland's in-custody death, was suspended for documented cases of racism when he was chief of police in Hempstead, Texas, in 2007.

New Video Shows Police Fatally Shooting Unarmed Latino Man

July 17, 2015 Natasha Noman, www.mic.com Educate! California, police brutality, Racial Justice

By Natasha Noman in Mic - A federal court judge Tuesday mandated the release of police-recorded video showing three officers shooting and killing unarmed Latino man Ricardo Diaz Zeferino, 35, in June 2013 in Gardena, California. From the video, it appears police shot Diaz Zeferino when he removed his baseball cap. Diaz Zeferino had apparently been trying to help his brother find his stolen bike, though the officers had reportedly stopped him for suspicion of stealing it. Diaz Zeferino's brother reported his bicycle stolen outside a CVS earlier that night, but the dispatcher mistakenly described it as a robbery, with connotations of violence, as opposed to a theft.

Week Of Righteous Resistance

July 13, 2015 Lena K. Gardner, www.standingonthesideoflove.org Resist! Black Lives Matter (BLM), police brutality, Religion, White Supremacy

By Lena K. Gardner in StandingOnTheSideOfLove.org. Minneapolis, MN - Last November, I lay down with just under a hundred other people on an interstate highway in Minneapolis. Along with thousands in cities across the country, we stopped the cars, we carried signs and we chanted and sang, saying Black Lives Matter in every way that we could. My brother called me from Texas, and said, “Hey, did you shut down I-35 today?” I responded, “Well, yes, me and a few others.” He said, “It made news down here. That’s dope. My freedom fighter sister.” That was just over six months ago, it was the start of what has been a nonstop whirlwind of actions, public witness, and personal challenge for me. It has been hard and I haven’t been alone. I have been fighting for freedom, for the freedom to be human in my Blackness, and the liberation of the most marginalized amongst us.

Eric Garner Family Reaches Settlement Of $5.9 Million

July 13, 2015 Kelly McLaughlin, www.dailymail.co.uk Educate! Criminal Justice, Eric Garner, New York (NY), New York City (NYC), NYC, NYPD, police brutality, Racial Justice

By Kelly McLaughlin in The Daily Mail - As the family of Eric Garner awaits closure a year after the father-of-six's untimely death, the police officer who put the 43-year-old in a fatal chokehold said that he can't wait to get back on the job. Though he's been stripped of his gun and is receiving death threats, 30-year-old Daniel Pantaleo wants to keep working for the New York City police, his lawyer said. 'The unbelievable part is this has not soured him one bit on doing law enforcement,' his lawyer Stuart London told the New York Daily News. 'It hasn't diminished his desire to help the citizens of this city.' Garner's widow, however, is enraged that there is even a possibility Pantaleo could get his job back.

B’more Police Chief Allowed Looting To Discredit Protestors

July 11, 2015 Paul Jay and Neill Franklin, www.therealnews.com Educate! Baltimore, Corruption, police brutality

By Paul Jay and Neill Franklin - Commissioner Batts and command staff members addressed officers during a roll call on April 25, 2015 at police headquarters. Of those officers who were present and with whom the after-action review committee spoke--that's the after-action review committee of the FOP. Each reported being given direct orders from Commissioner Batts and command staff members not to engage any protesters. Officers were ordered to allow the protesters room to destroy, and allow the destruction of property so the rioters would appear to be the aggressors. According to the officers' accounts they were told, quote, the Baltimore Police Department would not respond until they--in brackets, the protesters--burned, looted, and destroyed the city so that it would show that the rioters were forcing our hand, end quote.

Cops Hold Tasers To Lakota Protesters Stopping Beer Trucks

July 11, 2015 Sarah Burris, www.alternet.org Resist! Indigenous People, Mass Incarceration, Nebraska, police brutality

By Sarah Burris in Alternet - The town sells approximately 5 million cans of beer annually. Protesters have been camping around the clock for weeks holding vigils and doing blockades of the liquor store's delivery trucks. Last week, following a training and workshop, Lakota people took their civil disobedience to a new level with a greater presence and protest of the beer distributors. Bryan V. Brewer, Sr., president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, joined the crowd marching down the road toward White Clay as the beer trucks arrived. "As leaders we should be ahead of the people," he said. "We need to support our activists who are stepping up and confronting this issue." He was quickly arrested by Sheridan County Sheriff Terry Robbins.

Corporate Capitalism Is Foundation Of Police Brutality & Prison State

July 10, 2015 Chris Hedges, www.truthdig.com Educate! Capitalism, police brutality

By Chris Hedges in Truthdig - More training, body cameras, community policing, the hiring of more minorities as police officers, a better probation service and more equitable fines will not blunt the indiscriminate use of lethal force or reduce the mass incarceration that destroys the lives of the poor. Our capitalist system callously discards surplus labor, especially poor people of color, employing lethal force and the largest prison system in the world to keep them under control. This is by design. And until this predatory system of capitalism is destroyed, the poor, especially people of color, will continue to be gunned down by police in the streets, as they have for decades, and disproportionately locked in prison cages.

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