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Tag: Police Brutality

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Cops: Toddler Disfigured By Grenade in “No-Knock” Raid a “Criminal”, To Blame For His Injuries | #JusticeForBouBou

JennMay 22, 2015May 22, 2015

(H/T @boygainvillea) Last year, nineteen month-old Bounkham “Bou Bou” Phonesavanh was sleeping peacefully in his playpen in Habersham County, Georgia.…

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Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders

Anti-Indictment Rallies for NYPD Officer Peter Liang Draw Smaller Than Expected Crowd in NYC

JennApril 27, 2015April 27, 2015

After over a month of build-up, a “National Day of Protest” that organizers said would involve coordinated rallies opposing the indictment of…

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Politics

Who Watches The Watchmen: Police Accountability in the New Age of Racial Justice

JennApril 20, 2015April 21, 2015

This post was published hours before the verdict in the Rekia Boyd manslaughter trial was announced. This post has been…

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Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders

Grand Jury considering indictment of Asian American cop in shooting death of unarmed Akai Gurley

JennDecember 9, 2014December 9, 2014

There was no indictment in the shooting death of unarmed Black teenager Michael Brown by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. There…

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Racism

No Indictment Verdict in Death of Eric Garner Begs Question: Will Cop Body-cams Really Help? | #BlackLivesMatter

JennDecember 3, 2014December 3, 2014

This afternoon, a Staten Island grand jury refused to indict New York Police Department officer Daniel Pantaleo in the July…

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Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders

Asian Americans side with Blacks & Latinos (not Whites) in opinions on police effectiveness & racial profiling

JennSeptember 14, 2014September 14, 2014

It has been nearly a month since the fatal shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown by Ferguson, Missouri police officer…

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Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders

84yo Asian American victim of NYPD brutality to sue city for $5 million

JennAugust 28, 2014

I blogged earlier this year about the story of Kang Chun Wong, the 84 year old Chinese American man who…

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PoliticsRacism

Peace march at Yale emphasizes injustice of #MikeBrown’s murder & #solidarity with #Ferguson

JennAugust 20, 2014August 20, 2014

In the wake of the shooting death of unarmed teenager Michael Brown by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson ten days…

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Asian Americans & Pacific IslandersRacism

Lives Unlived & Dreams Undone: America’s Siege on Blackness | #Ferguson

JennAugust 15, 2014August 16, 2014

An unarmed teenager raises his hands above his head and pleads for his life. He is fatally gunned down by…

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Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders

Watching ASU professor be brutalized by cops reminds how #PoliceBrutality affects us all

JennJuly 3, 2014July 3, 2014

This is a story that deserves far more mainstream attention than it has received. On May 20, an Arizona State University…

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Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders

Cops caught on-camera hurling anti-Asian insults, assaulting Asian American salon owner

JennMay 22, 2014May 22, 2014

(H/T Yun Xu) Last week, Jianqing “Jessica” Klyzek — the 32-year-old owner of a Chicago-area salon — filed a federal lawsuit…

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Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders

84yo Chinese man beaten by NYPD for jaywalking; language barriers blamed

JennJanuary 20, 2014January 20, 2014

The New York Post reported yesterday that Kang Wong, an 84 year old man, was walking against a light in Manhattan’s…

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