We’ve all heard the stories of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Eric Garner in New York, Tamir Rice in Cleveland, Freddie Gray in Baltimore, Walter Scott in Charleston. Commonality: they were all killed by law enforcement officers. In its yearly review, international NGO Human Rights Watch determined that the mistreatment of …
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2015 was a year marked, among other political and social issues, by widespread discussions on the intersection of race and law enforcement. It also saw the continued increase of video footage exposing what many saw as double standards and racial bias from police forces. The rise of the Black Lives Matter …
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Via Erica Garner: “My father, Eric Garner, was killed by New York Police Department officer Daniel Pantaleo a year and a half ago, but last week marks the department’s first official charge of wrongdoing in his case. The charge was not made against Pantaleo, the officer who placed my father …
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Via NY Times: “A New York City police sergeant was served with departmental disciplinary charges on Friday for her role in the confrontation that led to the death of Eric Garner in 2014. The sergeant, Kizzy Adonis, was one of two Police Department supervisors to initially respond to the scene …
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