State of Emergency: How Cops Kill Black Folk and Get Away With It
Alton Sterling -- The Daily News front cover The following commentary was posted on my Facebook page yesterday at 4PM about five hours before the shooting death of…
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2015 — The Year Of #BlackLivesMatter
#BlackLivesMatter Michael Brown. Eric Garner. Laquan McDonald. Sandra Bland. Walter Scott. Rekia Boyd. Tamir Rice. Most Americans have at least heard their names, and the stories of how…
#BlackLivesMatter: We Need More Serpicos To Help End Corrupt Police Culture
Frank Serpico In late 1971, Detective Frank Serpico tried to change the corrupt cop culture of the New York Police Department (NYPD) when he testified before the Knapp…
Only Justice Sotomayor Willing To Protect Civilians From Police Brutality
With respect to incidents of Police Brutality across the country -- with the exception of Justice Sonia Sotomayor the U.S. Supreme Court has decided that police are above…
PBA’s Patrick Lynch And His Outrageous Reaction To Protests Against Police Killings
Patrick Lynch blamed Eric Garner for his choking-death by NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo It is outrageous and unconscionable that media and the head of Patrolmen's Benevolent Association (PBA)…
The Supicious Death Of Corey Jones At The Hands Of A Palm Beach Gardens Cop
Church drummer Corey Jones On July 16, 2009, Harvard University Professor Henry Louis Gates, as he was being wrongfully arrested at his home, by Cambridge Police Officer Sgt.…
#RiseUpOctober Leaders Reject Report “Exonerating” Officers Who Killed 12-year old Tamir Rice
Tamir Rice National leaders of #RiseUpOctober Carl Dix, Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, and Rev. Jerome McCorry have condemned reports from two so-called “experts,” released by the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s…
ACTION PLAN: WHAT DO YOU INTEND TO DO THE DAY AFTER MILLION MAN MARCH ANNIVERSARY 20?
Let's help create a better future for him On the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March the numbers have not disappointed -- Sisters and Brothers showed up…
Mayor Stephanie Rollins Blake’ Truth To Power About Crime And Black Communities: Poverty, Neglect, Racism
Mayor Rawlings-Blake Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake rightly spoke about the “lack of jobs, housing challenges, education and disparities in opportunity” in Black America which creates the volatile situation…
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…