Police

Starbucks CEO apologizes to Black men arrested in Philly store, Black police commissioner defends arrest

Black women are the most likely to be unarmed when killed by police, according to study

UCPD’s shooting of student in mental health crisis highlights the academy’s role in police brutality

NYPD kills 34 year old Saheed Vassel after claiming they thought metal rod was a gun

Black Lives Matter activist arrested during anti-racism training after confrontation with white woman

Boy in viral protest photo and two other children missing after SUV crash in California

Sacramento police shoot Stephon Clark 20 times in his own backyard, falsely claim he had a crowbar in his hand

Assassination of anti-police brutality activist and politician shakes Brazil

Austin bombings targeting people of color leave many questions and terror in their wake

Oakland café refuses to serve cops, garners community support despite controversy

Experts say family of Korryn Gaines has long fight ahead for the $37 million + in damages they were awarded

Israel’s nativist right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces calls for corruption charges from state police

Dallas police harass Erykah Badu just to say ‘hello’

High school senior creates CopStop app to help youth with police encounters

How growing up in what some called a religious “cult” helped me make sense of police abolition

Howard University safe after multiple shooter scares

How the state uses “police morale” to divert from the violence inherent to policing

FBI rolls out renewed COINTELPRO, warning of “Black Identity Extremists”

T-Boz announces lawsuit against Peoria Police Department for death of her cousin

Jason Stockley’s acquittal motivates unrest in St. Louis

Cleveland police refuse to carry flag at Brown’s game in National Anthem counter-protest

Cop could lose job after telling woman ‘We only kill Black people’

Teenager who was attacked by police dogs over mistaken identity files claim

Trump reportedly wants to give cops back their military gear

Baltimore prosecutors throw out more cases following third fake body-camera video

12-year-old Black boy arrested for riding on the back of a bike in Evanston, IL

Betty Shelby, who shot and killed Terence Crutcher, is officially a cop again

Video shows Baltimore cops planting drugs, again

Charges dropped against Black student, Marlin Gipson, who was stopped by police while mowing lawns

Black woman, U. Renee Hall, becomes Dallas’ first female police chief

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