[Donald Neely]
Guardian: “Photos of the August 2019 encounter showed Neely being led by the officers on a rope linked to handcuffs – reminiscent of pictures showing slaves in chains.”
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Texas
Black man led on rope by Texas police on horseback sues for $1m
THE KILLING OF ATATIANA JEFFERSON TELLS BLACKS WE’RE VULNERABLE TO POLICE VIOLENCE ANYWHERE
[Racial Policing News]
These reckless police killings—and murders—of Black people continue with the silent complicity of politicians many of whom are now seeking Black America’s votes for the 2020 Elections while they do next to nothing to stop the bloodletting. Professional politicians remain largely deaf, dumb, and blind to these outrages. Most Black politicians exhibit their shameful cowardice with muzzled voices and are nowhere to be found on this issue.
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WILL TEXAS EXECUTE RODNEY REED FOR A LOVE TRIANGLE KILLING POSSIBLY PERPETRATED BY A POLICE OFFICER?
[Criminal Justice\Execution]
Renown forensic pathologists including Michael Baden, M.D., Werner Spitz, M.D., LeRoy Riddick, M.D., and Cyril Wecht, M.D. have all concluded that Reed’s guilt is medically and scientifically impossible.
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GRAMMY WINNING SINGER SOLANGE KNOWLES’ ORCHESTRAL PERFORMANCE PIECE “WITNESS!” WAS RECENTLY PRESENTED IN GERMANY
[Entertainment\Music]
Grammy Award-winning singer Solange Knowles will be presenting “Witness,” an original performance–accompanied by a 38 piece orchestra–at the Elbphilharmonie concert hall in Hamburg, Germany.
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AFT’S WEINGARTEN, MEDICAL NURSES AND OTHERS DENOUNCE TRUMP’S DEPORTING OF SICK IMMIGRANT CHILDREN
[Immigration News]
AFT’s Randi Weingarten: “First, he separated families. Then he threw children in cages without food, water or showers. And now, in his cruelest move yet, Donald Trump is signing death sentences by deporting children with cancer and other illnesses, and in some cases deporting the parents of their sick and dying kids.”
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