Police

A New Education System without Police

Resisting constant surveillance in my predominantly white neighborhood

There’s no such thing as a “progressive prosecutor” in a system designed to criminalize Blackness

My mother proved protection is possible without police, even if she doesn’t know it

Increases in police funding will not make Black people safe, it is time city leaders listened

We need Restorative Justice in our schools, not more police

Watchmen, an homage to Black memory (loss)

How the myth that all Black parents give kids “the talk” about police is used to silence resistance

Why I no longer police my Black son’s behavior to make the world more comfortable

Prison abolition is more than a lofty theoretical. It’s also unpretty, everyday practices of resisting state policing

80+ arrested during protests after D.A. refuses to charge officers who killed Stephon Clark

Arizona wants to create a DNA database for care facilities and charge people for it, that’s a problem

Black queer people were never #allJussieSmollett

NYPD commander tells cops to “shoot (50 Cent) on sight,” rapper says he fears for his life

11-year-old arrested at Florida school after refusing to stand for pledge of allegiance defends himself

Jussie Smollett attack under new scrutiny after CPD won’t substantiate unnamed sources “staged” claim

After Israeli police kill Ethiopian woman, community rallies to protest anti-Blackness & police brutality

“This is MAGA country!”: Actor Jussie Smollett hospitalized after anti-gay, anti-Black attack in Chicago

Houston police union president threatens to track civilian anti-police rhetoric after cops shot

Former prosecutor acquits 3 cops accused of falsifying reports in Laquan McDonald shooting

Study: Body cam footage negatively influences viewers’ perceptions of police violence victims

Jameek Lowery went to cops for help, warned they’d kill him on FB live, then died in their custody

What do we do with abusers like R. Kelly if we abolish prisons?

Two suspects arrested in murder of Jazmine Barnes, but neither matches witness descriptions

Police still can’t find 7 y/o Jazmine Barnes’ killer as an older shooting gains suspicion

Israel claimed that a Palestinian was killed in ‘clashes,’ but video evidence shows Israeli police shooting him in the back

Mexico City’s first female mayor will dissolve anti-protest police force

Police charge anti-fascist protesters who were stabbed at white nationalist rally but protect the neo-Nazis

Private autopsy shows cops shot Emantic Bradford Jr., man mistaken for Black Friday mall shooter, 3 times in the back

Bassem Masri, a prominent live streamer of Ferguson uprising, latest area activist found dead

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