I am sure a lot of NFL yakkers are very happy that the DeShaun Watson rape allegations can push what the Miami Police Department did to Tyreek Hill out of the headlines. As Dave Zirin points out, the NFL is all about policing. What happened...
police violence
During the protests after the Minneapolis police murdered George Floyd, a cop shot the journalist Linda Tirado in the face with a rubber bullet. It cost her an eye. It.
Nothing should shock you about Mississippi, but a lot should outrage you and the complete lack of accountability for the state's sheriffs for crimes they commit with inmates is yet.
People attend a march in tribute to Nahel, a 17-year-old teenager killed by a French police officer during a traffic stop, in Nanterre, Paris, on June 29, 2023. The slogan reads “Justice for Nahel.” Sarah Meyssonnier—Reuters Two days before the US Supreme Court struck down...
The cops are fascists from stem to stern and Americans just don't want to deal with the core fact that they have entrusted public safety to the worst people in.
Baltimore police prepare to drive back people protest their murder of Freddie Gray, April 28, 2015
A student of mine told me about this situation in Atlanta before it led to violence and this is just crazy stuff. Basically, the Atlanta Police Department wants to log off a big ol' forest in an area that increasingly is cutting them all down...
To say the least, it is beyond unacceptable for American cops to murder about 100 people a year during routine traffic stops. Police in the US have killed nearly 600.
Paris, Pont Saint-Michel, 1961: "Here we drown Algerians" Sixty years ago today, Algerian migrants around the Paris region gathered for a peaceful march to protest a restrictive and discriminatory curfew..
There are no good cops. But at least we are moving toward prosecuting the very worst of the racist murderers. Three police officers in Tacoma, Wash., were charged on Thursday in the killing of a Black man who had pleaded “I can’t breathe,” after they...
Social movements come in different varieties. Some are movements that emerge slowly out of years and decades of organizing and remain relatively contained and containable by their leaders. These might.
A year since the murder of George Floyd and the biggest Black Lives Matter protests yet, white support for Black lives has....declined. In both cases, the deterioration in support is.