The Mob at the Capitol Proves That Blue Lives Have Never Mattered to Trump...
A US Capitol Police officer is among the dead in the aftermath of the violent mob that seized the Capitol on Wednesday. Officer Brian Sicknick, who had been on the force since 2008, was “responding to...
View ArticleHow Lawmakers Failed Jacob Blake
Jacob Blake, paralyzed and still suffering from injuries, got a phone call on Tuesday afternoon from Kenosha District Attorney Michael Graveley with some news: There would be no charges filed against...
View ArticleNew York City Paid an NBA Star Millions After an NYPD Officer Broke His Leg....
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View Article“No One Took Us Seriously”: Black Cops Warned About Racist Capitol Police...
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View ArticleThe Insurrection at the Capitol Has Renewed Democrats’ Calls for Police Reform
Things could have turned out very differently for Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.) if she hadn’t taken a Zoom call in her office last Wednesday afternoon. The California representative had been on the House...
View ArticleA Road Map for Getting Rid of Racist Cops
It’s hard to forget the image: Thomas Robertson and Jacob Fracker, two off-duty Virginia police officers, pose for a selfie in the US Capitol, one of them raising his middle finger to the camera, as...
View Article“Please Don’t Kill Me,” Angelo Quinto Pleaded. The Cops Kneeled on His Neck...
Angelo Quinto had two fears: death and the police. He always told his mother to comply with the cops—don’t say anything, just follow along. So when the police extricated him from his mother’s arms, his...
View ArticleBreonna Taylor Was Slain One Year Ago Today. The Tragic Police Raids Continue.
One year ago today, Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old Black hospital worker, was shot dead by police in her home in the middle of the night. The Louisville, Kentucky, officers barged in around 12:40 a.m.,...
View ArticlePolice Unions Have Enormous War Chests to Defend Officers Like Derek Chauvin
Derek Chauvin, the former officer who was fired from the Minneapolis Police Department after he kneeled on George Floyd’s neck last May, faces a criminal trial that’s scheduled to begin this month. The...
View ArticleMassage Parlor Workers Say Policing Isn’t the Answer to the Violence They Face
The morning after a gunman attacked three massage parlors in the Atlanta area, killing eight people, including six women of Asian descent, JM Wong and a few other members of the Massage Parlor Outreach...
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Inside the Community Patrols in San Francisco’s Chinatown
Last Tuesday evening in San Francisco’s Chinatown, Forrest Liu, 27, spotted a blue sedan with four passengers idling at the curb outside a barbecue restaurant, where a woman in a red apron could be...
View ArticleMaryland Legislators Override a Veto to Usher in Sweeping Police Reform
In Minnesota, Derek Chauvin’s trial in the killing of George Floyd is on the verge of its third week, with no clear sign yet whether the police officer who knelt on Floyd’s neck for about nine minutes...
View ArticleWe Have Trainings to Stop Cops From Mistaking Their Guns for a Taser. Few...
On Monday, Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon said he believed the fatal shooting by police of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, was not intentional. In body-cam footage, Officer Kim Potter...
View ArticleOne Trial Can’t Change American Policing
Just 10 miles away from where the state of Minnesota is prosecuting former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd, officer Kim Potter, who is white and a 26-year...
View ArticleThe Cop Who Shot Daunte Wright Will Be Charged With Manslaughter
Kim Potter, the former police officer who fatally shot 20-year-old Daunte Wright this weekend, will be charged with second-degree manslaughter, a Minnesota prosecutor announced Wednesday. The...
View ArticleDerek Chauvin Was Just Found Guilty on All Three Counts for Murdering George...
After just 10 hours of deliberation, the jury in the Derek Chauvin trial found the former Minneapolis police officer guilty on all charges in the death of George Floyd. Last May, bystander video of...
View Article“One Guilty Verdict Doesn’t Satisfy That Appetite for Actual Change”: Why...
Late Tuesday afternoon, the jury in the trial of Derek Chauvin delivered its verdict: guilty on all three counts in the killing of George Floyd. The verdict comes just less than a year after Chauvin, a...
View ArticlePolice Reforms Don’t Work When Cops Ignore Them
Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, is a prime example of how little can change in a year. As former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin stood trial for the murder of George Floyd last May, police in the...
View ArticleThe Power of the Myths Many White People Believe About Policing—and America
This week in Minneapolis, white police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty on three counts for the murder last May of George Floyd. Repeatedly, the jury saw the recording of the 19-year veteran of...
View ArticleWhat the Hell Is Going on at the Columbus Police Department?
Just minutes before a Minneapolis jury convicted former officer Derek Chauvin in the murder of George Floyd, and less than a month after a Chicago police officer shot and killed 13-year-old Adam Toledo...
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