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Video Shows U.S. Marshals Task Force Brutalizing Teenage Boys in Mississippi
The FBI and the Justice Department are investigating the task force after security footage emerged of a violent arrest in September. ...[Read more]
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New Study Shows More Than Half of Police Killings Have Gone Uncounted Since 1980
New research appears to confirm what Black Lives Matter activists and abolitionist organizers have said for years: There is a crisis of police-perpetrated killings in the United States that has gone underreported for decades, and people of color (and Blac ...[Read more]
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Australia: Unprecedented surveillance bill rushed through parliament in 24 hours.
Australian police can now hack your device, collect or delete your data, take over your social media accounts - all without a judge's warrant. ...[Read more]
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Minnesota Law Enforcement Shared Intelligence on Protest Organizers With Pipeline Company
Police responsible for public safety surrounding the construction of an oil pipeline in Minnesota have repeatedly denied having a close relationship with Enbridge, the company behind the controversial energy project. According to records obtained by The I ...[Read more]
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Portland’s Bizarre Experiment With Not Policing Proud Boys Rampage Ends in Gunfire
Portland's police force chose to stand back and stand by as Proud Boys who came to the city to fight with anti-fascists assaulted protesters and a right-wing gunman opened fire. ...[Read more]
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Viral video shows DC cop punching a Black man 12 times as other officers let him
The Washington, D.C. Chief of Police is responding to multiple news reports and a viral video that appears to show a white Metropolitan Police officer repeatedly punching a Black man as two other officers try to restrain the alleged suspect and another co ...[Read more]
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UN Report Calls for Reparations for Victims of Systemic Racist Police Violence
On June 28, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet released a stunning 23-page report accompanied by a 95-page conference room paper for the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) documenting systemic racism and human rights violations ...[Read more]
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ICE Discussed Punishing Immigrant Advocates for Peaceful Protests
Internal documents show how ICE surveilled immigrant advocates’ protest activities — and floated retaliating against them for it. ...[Read more]
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Oracle Boasted That Its Software Was Used Against U.S. Protesters. Then It Took the Tech to China.
According to the documents and to video presentations, CPD used a tool called Endeca Information Discovery, a product from tech giant Oracle, to merge crime records, 911 calls, and other routine police information with protesters’ tweets. Oracle claims ...[Read more]
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22 NYPD Officers Were Convicted Of Dishonesty, Corruption, And Other Misconduct. Should Convictions They Helped Secure Stand?
Last month, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance announced they were moving to dismiss nearly two hundred convictions involving Joseph Franco, a veteran narcotics detective who was indicted for lying under o ...[Read more]
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Commission Finds Anti-Black Police Violence Constitutes Crimes Against Humanity
On April 27, the International Commission of Inquiry on Systemic Racist Police Violence Against People of African Descent in the United States issued its long-awaited report on the U.S.’s police-perpetrated racist violence. The Commissioners concluded t ...[Read more]
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