[Rayshard Brooks\Police Violence]
Laven: “Rayshard Brooks, like so many other people of color killed by police, should still be alive. In 2016, for example, fewer than one in three Black people killed by police were armed or suspected of a violent crime.”
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[Book Excerpt: “The Roots of Racism in American Policing”]
Benjamin: “Police represent a domestic terrorist organization that is sanctioned by America’s white political structure to control Black people.”
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[AFT\Black Lives Matter]
AFT President Randi Weingarten: “We must also do all we can to create safe and welcoming environments. That requires us to rethink school security starting with separating police forces from schools.”
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[Atlanta\”Blue Flu” Strike]
Atlanta Police Department confirmed a larger-than-normal number of absent officers on Wednesday evening, but denied any mass strike in response to the criminal charges leveled against the two men involved in the fatal shooting of Brooks.
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[Rayshard Brooks]
Officer Rolfe has been charged with 11 charges–including one charge of felony murder aggravated assault, criminal damage to property and violations to his oath of office…Rolfe could face a maximum sentence of life–or the death penalty.
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[American Policing]
Perceptions of a few “bad apples” within police departments are quickly being dispelled due to such data and video recordings from cell phones and security cameras.
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[Police Brutality\Economic Inequality]
Rev. Jackson: “Police serve as an occupying force in poor communities of color because those communities exist — often created by red-lining — worsened by savage inequality.”
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[Black Star News Show\WBAI New York 99.5FM]
Host Milton Allimadi is joined by Attorney, human rights activist, and a leader of the December 12 Movement (D12), Roger Wareham, to discuss the ongoing national and international uprisings against police crimes against Black People.
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