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Activists Shut Down Chicago Intersection To Protest Police Training Conference

October 14, 2016 Aaron Cynic, www.truth-out.org , ,
By Aaron Cynic for Chicagoist - Fifteen people were arrested Sunday afternoon after locking down the intersection of Wacker and Michigan to protest a police tactical officers' conference happening in suburban Hoffman Estates. Activists blocked traffic for nearly 90 minutes by chaining themselves together with lockboxes, tubes wrapped around their arms made of pipe, duct tape and metal wiring. Several dozen flanked the sidewalks on each side of the intersection, chanting "No borders, no pipelines, no prisons or police," and "cops, SWAT & soldiers, do yourselves a favor, stay the fuck away from our Muslim friends and neighbors."

Chicago Police Investigation By Intercept

October 10, 2016 Jamie Kalven, www.theintercept.com , , ,
By Jamie Kalven for The Intercept - ON MAY 31, the city of Chicago agreed to settle a whistleblower lawsuit brought by two police officers who allege they suffered retaliation for reporting and investigating criminal activity by fellow officers. The settlement, for $2 million, was announced moments before the trial was to begin. As the trial date approached, city lawyers had made a motion to exclude the words “code of silence” from the proceedings.

Lawmaker Pushing Bill To Protect People Filming Police Arrested

October 3, 2016 Naomi LaChance, www.theintercept.com ,
By Naomi LaChance for The Intercept - An Arkansas State representative who helped pass a state law protecting people who film police was arrested Monday while filming Little Rock police as they put a black man in handcuffs after a traffic stop. The charges against Rep. John Walker have been dropped, but his colleague, fellow civil rights lawyer Omavi Shukur, faces charges for obstruction of government relations. Officer Jeff Thompson wrote in his police report

Here’s What Activists In Charlotte Want From City’s Police Department

September 27, 2016 Julia Craven, www.huffingtonpost.com , ,
By Julia Craven for The Huffington Post - CHARLOTTE, N.C. ― Sixteen North Carolina-based activist organizations dedicated to ending police violence released a list of demands to increase transparency in the death of 43-year-old Keith Scott on Friday. Charlotte Uprising, the designation for the recently founded collective, revealed its demands after Scott was shot and killed by Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officers on Tuesday.

French Police Fire Tear Gas At Labor Reform Protesters

September 17, 2016 Brian Love, www.reuters.com , , ,
By Brian Love for Reuters - Riot police fired tear gas and water cannon at protesters marching on Thursday in France against labor reforms in what unions say will likely be the last demonstrations to try to overturn the law. Scuffles broke out in cities including Paris, Nantes, Toulouse, Rennes, Grenoble and Montpellier, the Interior Ministry said in a statement. Hooded youths hurled bottles, beer cans and on occasion makeshift firebombs on the fringes of marches against the law that will make hiring and firing easier.

Honduran Police Clash With Students At Anti-Privatization Protest

September 12, 2016 Staff, www.telesurtv.net , , , ,
By Staff of Tele Sur - Police officers are trying to clear an occupation by university students, after protesters took over part of Honduras' public university. Police forces clashed with a group of students who took the administrative building of the main campus of the National Autonomous University of Honduras Thursday in the capital of Tegucigalpa, as part of protests against privatization of education, teleSUR correspondent Gerardo Torres reported.

Urban Shield Police Training Draws Protesters

September 11, 2016 Sarah Ravani, www.sfgate.com , , ,
By Sarah Ravani for the San Francisco Chronicle. Protesters chained themselves together and blocked the main gates of the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton Friday morning to demonstrate their opposition to the Urban Shield police training and expo scheduled there this weekend. About 10 demonstrators chained themselves together and formed a line in front of the gates on Pleasanton Avenue, but police attending the expo and training exercises were able to get into the fairgrounds through other entrances. Twenty demonstrators were arrested and later booked at the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin on suspicion of blocking traffic and failing to disperse, said Sgt. Ray Kelly, a spokesman for the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office. He said all were expected to be released Friday evening.

Criticism Of Police Boycott In Response To Kaepernick’s Protest

September 8, 2016 Staff, www.vanmeetsworld.wordpress.com , ,
By Staff of Van Meets World - I am not really big on sports. But I have been following the controversy around Colin Kaepernick’s decision to sit during the national anthem as a form of protest very closely. As Kaepernick said in his own words, “To me, this is bigger than football.” I am new to San Francisco. I’ve only been here for a month now, and I’m only going to be here for a month longer. But for the time being, I live here. I work here. And honestly? I love this city more than I will ever love New York City, even though I was born and raised in the Empire State.

Leaked Catalogue Reveals Array Of Military Spy Gear Offered To U.S. Police

September 3, 2016 Sam Biddle, www.theintercept.com ,
By Sam Biddle for The Intercept - A CONFIDENTIAL, 120-PAGE catalogue of spy equipment, originating from British defense firm Cobham and circulated to U.S. law enforcement, touts gear that can intercept wireless calls and text messages, locate people via their mobile phones, and jam cellular communications in a particular area. The catalogue was obtained by The Intercept as part of a large trove of documents originating within the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, where spokesperson Molly Best confirmed Cobham wares have been purchased but did not provide further information.

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.

Heavy-Handed Policing Protested At FOP Conference

August 16, 2016 Fern Shen, www.baltimorebrew.com , ,
By Fern Shen for Baltimore Brew - Unwarranted arrests of people doing nothing illegal – often after a hot-headed officer escalated a situation – were among the unconstitutional actions documented by the U.S. Justice Department in a scathing report on the Baltimore Police Department released Wednesday. City police made one such arrest, arguably, at a protest yesterday afternoon intended by organizers to call attention to the overly aggressive behavior chronicled in the Justice report.

DOJ Exposes Racist Policing In Baltimore, Major Transformation Needed

August 11, 2016 Jean Marbella, www.baltimoresun.com , , ,
By Jean Marbella for The Baltimore Sun - Soul searching in Baltimore as Justice Department details racial underpinnings to police problems. One vexing challenge underlies and overrides nearly everything in the Justice Department's 163-page report on the failings of the Baltimore Police Department: race. Justice officials found that police used excessive force and unlawfully stopped hundreds of thousands of drivers and pedestrians without cause — and that African-Americans bore the brunt of this.

Communities Of Color Are Over-Policed

August 11, 2016 Shaun King, www.nydailynews.com ,
By Shaun King for Daily News - On the evening of Nov. 26, 2013 Baton Rouge area police arrested a 38-year-old black man named Ervin Edwards. Edwards, who struggled with mental illness and drug use, was also partially deaf and battled the effects of obesity and high blood pressure. Police were called to a local convenience store when he and his longtime girlfriend were overheard in an argument. By the time law enforcement arrived, the argument had long since been over. Ervin Edwards, though, was sagging his pants, and police had a problem with it. In Port Allen, La. sagging pants are illegal.

My Mother, Stopped For Driving While Black

August 10, 2016 Milen Mehari, www.otherwords.org , , ,
By Milen Mehari for Other Worlds - When the police pulled their guns on my mother, I reached for my phone and told her to be calm and do as they say. My parents and I had just been swarmed by police cars, sirens blaring, as we drove on I-64 through Virginia. Shock and fear consumed my family as we came to a stop and were ordered out of the vehicle at gun point. A third car even showed up to stop traffic.

Why Are Police So Afraid Of Bold, Black Women Like Korryn Gaines?

August 10, 2016 Sonali Kolhatkar, www.truthdig.com , ,
By Sonali Kolhatkar for Truth Dig - The brutal death of a 23-year-old African-American woman named Korryn Gaines has sparked yet another much-needed conversation in the United States about the use of lethal force by police and its disproportionate impact on blacks. Gaines was killed in her Maryland home by Baltimore County police, who had issued a warrant for her arrest over charges stemming from a traffic violation and her failure to appear in court. The young mother was armed with a shotgun that she apparently pointed at police, although they fired first.
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