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Wow. Police harrass and humilate Black Man, White Lady Lawyer intervenes, restores order. The O’Leary: This is priceless! byxxdr zombiexxFollow forDFH Local No 420 They were treating him like a dog. Attorney shuts down police stop of black handyman A recent videotaped incident in Washington, D.C., highlights the way race and class matter in police […]
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Wed Oct 08, 2014 at 08:59 AM PDT 59-year-old Georgia man killed in no-knock raid, no drugs found byJen HaydenFollow attribution: photo from Facebook David Hooks and his wife were in their home on September 24 when she looked out the window and saw men in hoods outside their home. Alarmed, she woke her husband […]
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06 OctProtest for Mike Brown at St. Louis Symphony #RequiemforMikeBrown* Stunning, Creative, Effective Protest for Mike Brown at St. Louis Symphony #RequiemforMikeBrown By jardin32 Requiem for Mike Brown Last night, right before the Brahms Requiem at Powell Symphony Hall in St. Louis, brave singers stood up, and sang “Which Side are you on?” for Mike Brown, unfurling banners from the balcony, and at the […]
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Race Seen Through Viewfinders The photographer Renee Cox, featured in the film “Through a Lens Darkly,” comments on racism by drawing on a biblical narrative in which blacks have often been excluded. Credit Renee Cox/First Run Features …………Such images can still cause pain, in no small part because the attitudes they reflect don’t entirely belong […]
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Eugene Robinson | The Rage in Ferguson Comes From the Ones Left Behind EUGENE ROBINSON ON BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT (Photo: Fir0002) The fire this time is about invisibility. Our society expects the police to keep unemployed, poorly educated African-American men out of sight and out of mind. When they suddenly take center stage, illuminated by […]
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Police in Ferguson Ordered Man to ‘Freeze’ Then Shot Him at ‘Point Blank Range’ with Rubber Bullet By: Kevin Gosztola The O’Leary: The United Police States of America Police forces in Ferguson, Missouri, arrested at least twenty-two people last night and also fired tear gas indiscriminately into a crowd of demonstrators, which included families […]
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