Conservative website run by Tea Party favorite Allen West applauds cops for statistics showing that 30% of fatal cop shootings aren’t justified. Conservative website AllenBWest.com has a curious article entitled: “Statistics for police violence show 70% of shootings are justified.” Maybe it’s just the contrarian in me, but when I first glimpsed the headline I […]
Progressive icon Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) gave a speech on racial inequality that is exactly what Black Lives Matter activists have been wanting to hear. Warren delivered the remarks in Boston on Sunday at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate, as part of the Institute’s “Getting to the Point” speaker series. […]
Nine police officers were captured on video slamming a teenager onto a concrete sidewalk and assaulting him. His crime – jaywalking. Early Tuesday morning Stockton, California police arrested the 16-year old boy and charged him with trespassing and resisting arrest according to a report by RT. According to RT, “the teen was walking near the […]
The Guardian reports that a white police officer was caught on a recording discussing to kill a black suspect and get away with it. Officer Troy Middlebrooks, an Alabama police officer, “proposed murdering a black resident” and manufacturing false evidence suggest self-defense according to The Guardian. Even worse, Middlebrooks is still on the job: Officer […]
Controversy raged from coast to coast in the wake of the killing of Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old black man who was fatally shot by Darren Wilson, 28, a white Ferguson police officer. The circumstances of the shooting, the resultant protests and civil unrest, and the failure of a grand jury to hand down an […]