01 Jun
Police killing of unarmed college debater under scrutiny Los Angeles Times Harriet Ryan and Deborah Netburn 1 hr ago .Feras Morad at a college debate in Los Angeles in 2014. Thomas Ouimet via AP Feras Morad at a college debate in Los Angeles in 2014. LOS ANGELES — The shooting of an unarmed college student […]
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01 Jun
Black Americans killed by police twice as likely to be unarmed as white people Guardian analysis finds 102 people killed by police so far this year were unarmed, and that agencies are killing people at twice the rate calculated by US government The Counted: people killed by police in the United States in 2015 – […]
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19 May
Two open-carry activists. One white, one black. Two very different police responses by Jen Hayden . Two armed open-carry activist treated very differently attribution: screenshot from video One of these things is not like the other. The video below shows two open-carry activists, both “demonstrating” their Second Amendment rights. Both were approached by police, but […]
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04 May
Leonard Pitts Jr.: It takes more than street protests to produce change <img src=”http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/leonard-pitts-jr/nqy82n/picture20098290/ALTERNATES/FREE_960/BALTIMORE18″ alt=”Protesters march by the Baltimore Central Booking and Intake Center on May 1 after it was announced that criminal charges would be brought against six officers involved in the Freddie Gray case.” width=”800″ height=”” title=”Protesters march by the Baltimore Central Booking […]
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