News Release Category: Police Brutality
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Trump in Kenosha
President Donald Trump is scheduled to travel to Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Tuesday, where Jacob Blake was shot repeatedly by police in the back.
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Could NBA Strike Fuel New Strike Wave?
Mike Elk, a reporter at Payday Report, has said that the NBA strike could inspire a whole new round of Black Lives Matter strikes across the United States.
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“Epidemic” of Uniform Violence at Home
Police violence does not stop on the streets. There is a black-and-blue line of domestic violence in the households of policemen… Domestic violence and sexual assault by military, particularly combat veterans with PTSD, is a serious problem, but these are problems among police, too.
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Trump and Barr Turn to Joint Terrorism Task Force to Crush Protests
It’s important to remember what actually happened with the Occupy Movement, a remarkable protest against inequality, corporate power, and the corrupt Wall Street banks whose recklessness had caused the 2008 financial crisis.
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Is the Solution Defunding the Police, Or Community Control?
“Defunding the police will not abolish the police. Far from purging classism, racism and patriarchy from its ranks, defunding the police is likely to bring them back in their purest form and with a vengeance.”
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Today, Sentencing for Pacifist Jailed for Protesting “Omnicidal” Weapons — Supported by Activist Thrown to Ground by Police
The elderly man who Buffalo police shoved to the sidewalk and lay bleeding from his head has been identified as Martin Gugino. Gugino is a long-time peace activist and recently made a series of video statements about the sentencing of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 activists who entered a major nuclear weapons facility on April 4, 2018, on the 50th anniversary…
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Rev. Hagler on Trump and Protests
“The problem with white America [is the] deluded and myth-based thinking that they built this country and made it wealthy. No, its wealth is because of exploited and enslaved labor” concluding that “unless the nation can confess … it will remain divided.”
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Police Targeting Reporters; Big Media Hiding Police Abuse
“Police are purposefully targeting reporters all over the country, in video after video. There’s no other way to describe it.”