Cardinal Dolan Excusing NYPD Abuse and Murder is Sinful
Black Star News: "Cardinal Dolan, your comments are insensitive, at the very least. They are offensive to every Black New Yorker targeted, daily, by the institutional racism that…
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Barron Wants Maximum Sentence for Officer Liang Who Killed Akai Gurley
The fact that Peter Liang is on a short list of New York Police Department officers who have been convicted of the fatal shootings of innocent people, primarily…
Brooklyn D.A. Ken Thompson Denies He’s “Abandoned” Pledge To Re-Examine ’94 NYPD Killing Of Nicholas Heyward Jr
Brooklyn (King's County) D.A. Thompson A spokesperson for King's County District Attorney Kenneth P. Thompson has denied claims by the father of a teenager slain by a police…
Akai Gurley: Activists Welcome Peter Laing’s Indictment But Caution Premature Celebration
Young marchers have been demanding for justice in several police-killing-of-unarmed Black men cases Several elected officials and activists welcomed today's report that Peter Liang the NYPD officer who…
Police Reform: Communities United Join Testify With Other Civil Rights Groups Before Obama Administration
Monifa Bandele Leaders of Communities United for Police Reform (CPR) joined numerous advocates and experts to present testimony to President Obama’s administration on how to reform policing throughout…