The cops and the district attorneys want people to see what we are going through — the conditions of our arrests, our experiences in jail, and our legal battle — and to think that this ...
The study comes amid unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, following the latest high-profile police shooting of a Black man and the shooting deaths of two protesters by an alleged far-right militia member. (By: Julia Conley, Common ...
“While we do not have all of the details yet, what we know for certain is that he is not the first Black man or person to have been shot or injured or mercilessly killed ...
The use of force detailed in the report “is ultimately a symptom of the very issue that started these protests: unaccountable police violence.” (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) In a report titled “The World is ...
“They just started whaling on me with batons, and I let them,” said Christopher David. (By: Jon Queally, Common Dreams) The U.S. Navy veteran who was brutally attacked by unidentified federal police in Portland, Oregon ...
Taylor’s death at the hands of police officers on March 13 has prompted protests, but so far no officers have been charged. Demonstrations over Kentucky’s handling of the alleged murder of Breonna Taylor continued Tuesday. ...
“This city will never sleep until we get justice.” Minneapolis has been protesting since May 26th, and although the national spotlight has gone elsewhere, Minneapolis continues to protest against police violence and held a large ...
“Elijah McClain and his family deserve justice.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) Demonstrators in Aurora, Colorado Saturday are calling for justice for Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who died after being attacked by city ...
“Carlos Ingram Lopez should still be alive today.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) Video of the police killing of Tucson, Arizona resident Carlos Ingram Lopez in April was released to the public on Wednesday, prompting ...
As protests against police brutality and racism drive policy shifts around the nation, which changes can actually bring sustained long-term improvements? Protesters against police brutality and racism have gathered to demand systemic change since the ...
With mass protests over the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin morphing into demands to grapple with racism and to confront a police culture where brutality is all too common, and ...
American voters now support sweeping changes to policing; 83 percent want a ban on racial profiling, 92 percent want police to be required to wear body cameras and White Americans’ concern over police violence has increased by ...
The U.S. military’s budget, like so many police department budgets, is bloated, and diverts our tax dollars into forces of domination and violence. Now is the time to question our spending priorities at the local ...
Society doesn’t need a large group with a license to kill. Recent protests, catalyzed by the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, call for an end to racist police violence. With their actions, the protesters ...
Even in cases where the use of excessive force was clear and well documented officers have not faced consequences because of qualified immunity. On Tuesday June 15 the Supreme Court denied a petition by the ...
Citizen Truth spoke to activists and citizens there as well as organizers in Europe about why these demonstrations are important and what needs to change. America is experiencing the global coronavirus at a more extreme ...
Just nine days after protestors burned down Minneapolis PD’s 3rd Precinct, huge changes are afoot. Nine of the thirteen councilors on the Minneapolis City Council announced their intent to dismantle the city’s police department in ...
“There’s children of all ages and older adults here. They are going to experience what we have experienced and we have to try to make that not happen.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) After the ...
(David Swanson) Already we’ve seen, as a result of people taking to the streets in the United States: Four policemen indicted. More racist monuments dismantled. Some minimal and inconsistent limit on what the New York Times editorial ...
The long list of names killed due to police violence is growing. David McAtee, Sean Monterrosa, Jamel Floyd. These are just some of the names of the people killed by law enforcement as anti-racist protests ...
“After the Civil War, Southern police departments often carried over aspects of the patrols. These included systematic surveillance, the enforcement of curfews, and even notions of who could become a police officer.” On May 25 ...
“AG Bill Barr’s behavior has been deeply problematic since he was sworn in, but now it has become truly dangerous. He needs to resign.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) Attorney General William Barr is facing ...
Society in the United States has been broken by the mechanisms of high rates of economic inequality, high rates of poverty, impossible entry into robust educational systems, and remarkable warlike conditions put in place to ...
When you tell people they won’t be held accountable for their actions, it almost always ends badly. That’s what’s happened with our police and our social media, two institutional pillars of personal and political society ...
While some in media have condemned the protests as violent “looters” imposing “tyranny” upon the country, much of the violence is being deliberately instigated and propagated by an out of control police force that appears to ...
“I thank God people are in the streets,” said the Harvard philosopher and activist. “Can you imagine this kind of lynching taking place and people are indifferent? People don’t care? People are callous?” (By: Jon ...
“The police killed him, bro, right in front of everybody. He was crying, telling them like, ‘I can’t breathe,’ and everything. They did not care.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) Video footage posted to social ...
“Nothing will bring Botham back, but today his family has found some measure of justice.” Amber Guyger, the 31-year-old Dallas police officer who fatally shot 26-year-old Botham Jean in his own apartment when she walked ...
“This case has rained violence upon every person of color even remotely involved.” The New York Police Department fired the officer whose chokehold led to the death of Eric Garner on Monday, closing a five-year ...
“I can’t think of any other investigation that we’ve undertaken, at least in my 30 years, with that many people taken off the street at one time.” After thousands of law enforcement officers allegedly posted ...
Willie McCoy did not even get to wake up before he was prejudged a threat and killed by six police officers. Willie McCoy, a 20-year-old black man was murdered Saturday night by six cops in ...
In Vallejo, California, an area that has seen other high profile police violence cases in recent years, police shot dead a young black man named Willie McCoy who was sleeping in his car as officers ...
A handcuffed man who was severely beaten in court in 2012 by a police officer is appealing a lawsuit against the city of Denver. Last week a man, Anthony Waller, who had his head smashed ...
“Hitting the (NFL) with the advertisers is the only way to hurt them.” Comedian Amy Schumer is taking a stand in solidarity with football star Colin Kaepernick and the protest movement he started in 2016, ...
Our inaugural episode of Good Cop/Bad Cop – because everyone knows there are good cops and bad cops but not everyone knows what’s good cop behavior and what’s bad cop behavior. On our first episode ...
In a lawsuit filed last week, a 76-year-old legally deaf and disabled women alleges officers violently arrested, kneed and handcuffed her to the point of passing out, all for jaywalking. The incident took place in July ...
A public approval tool designed to measure police performance at the local and state levels was recently launched in New York. Sentiment Meter, as it is called, is developed by Brooklyn-based startup Elucd, and after ...
A homeless man identified as Kevin Straw was beaten aggressively during an arrest by Oregon law enforcement on Monday, prompting A.C.L.U. Oregon to condemn officer behavior and call for an incident investigation. Four Marion County ...
A beloved Brazilian activist who fought against police brutality and the oppression of indigenous, LGBT and other minorities was gunned down two weeks ago and many think the Brazilian government pulled the trigger. On the ...
A body camera video has just been released which shines a new light on the Tennessee police shooting of an unarmed motorist. Last April, police in Tennessee attempted to pull over Michael Dial for driving ...
Off-duty officer Joe Joswiak pulled over Minnesota motorist Anthony Promvongsa for driving aggressively in July of 2016 and immediately began violently assaulting him. The ACLU just released dash cam of the incident and is calling ...
On June 8th, a New York corrections officer at Rikers Island admitted to sexual assault of a female inmate but thanks to a plea deal he will receive no jail time. As part of the ...
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