We Need To Stop Blaming the Victims of Police Brutality For The Violence Committed Against Their Bodies
An unarmed 16-year-old schoolgirl who refuses to put away her cellphone does not deserve being grabbed by the neck and…
Tag: Eric Garner
Cops: Toddler Disfigured By Grenade in “No-Knock” Raid a “Criminal”, To Blame For His Injuries | #JusticeForBouBou
(H/T @boygainvillea) Last year, nineteen month-old Bounkham “Bou Bou” Phonesavanh was sleeping peacefully in his playpen in Habersham County, Georgia.…
Who Watches The Watchmen: Police Accountability in the New Age of Racial Justice
This post was published hours before the verdict in the Rekia Boyd manslaughter trial was announced. This post has been…
Why We Must Support the Indictment of Peter Liang
In December of last year, I predicted that Officer Peter Liang — the rookie New York Police Department cop who…
Grand Jury considering indictment of Asian American cop in shooting death of unarmed Akai Gurley
There was no indictment in the shooting death of unarmed Black teenager Michael Brown by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. There…
No Indictment Verdict in Death of Eric Garner Begs Question: Will Cop Body-cams Really Help? | #BlackLivesMatter
This afternoon, a Staten Island grand jury refused to indict New York Police Department officer Daniel Pantaleo in the July…