police brutality

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/17/2021
  

  Officials Apologize for Deadly Police Shooting at a Black College in 1970

  More than 400 students from the Jackson State class of 1970 were awarded diplomas on Saturday, as city and state officials apologized for the deadly police violence that took two lives and resulted in the shutdown of the campus and cancellation of that year's graduation ceremonies. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  4/20/2021
  

  From Rodney King to George Floyd: Reliving the Scars of Police Violence

  "The murder trial of Derek Chauvin is at the center of a national reckoning on race and policing. But cycles of protests over systemic racism and policing are not new. We watched the trial with the families of Rodney King, Oscar Grant and Stephon Clark to see this moment in history through their eyes."

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• SOURCE: MSNBC
  4/19/2021
  

  Adam Toledo's Killing is Part of a Brutal Pattern of Child Killings in America

  by Keisha N. Blain

  Repeated acts of police violence against children underscore the fundamentally racist roots of policing in the United States and demand a diversion of resources from police to social services. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  4/18/2021
  

  Calls to Disarm the Police Won’t Stop Brutality and Killings

  by Maryam Aziz

  Calls to disarm police departments ignore the way that policing has used unarmed forms of violence in its efforts at social control, particularly of Black communities. 

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  4/14/2021
  

  Virginia Police, Army Lt. Caron Nazario and America's Bloody Traffic Stop Catch-22

  by Matthew Guariglia

  The incident of Lt. Caron Nazario illustrates the argument of 1960s Black radical activist Robert Williams that violence against Black people has always been part of maintaining the social order; recognizing nonviolence as a tactic of civil rights activism should not obscure the constancy of violence from the other side. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/2/2020
  

  Kentucky State Police Quoted Hitler and Encouraged Cadets to be ‘Ruthless’ in a Training Program

  The rhetoric in the slide show is consistent with “warrior-style” police training, which teaches officers to dehumanize people to act aggressively and forcefully. It also trains officers to approach every encounter with citizens as having a possibility of becoming dangerous or fatal.

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• SOURCE: Lexington Herald-Leader
  10/6/2020
  

  In Louisville, Looking to Life-Changing Past Civil Rights Protests to Move Forward

  Historian Tracy E. K'Meyer says that, despite the mutual misgivings of older and younger activists, Louisville's legacy of civil rights protests in the 1960s is highly influential today as activists seek justice and policing reform in the wake of the killing of Breonna Taylor. 

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• SOURCE: TIME
  10/9/2020
  

  'My Faith in This World Is Gone.' For Protesters Injured by Police, There's No Real Recovery

  Historian Heather Ann Thompson says that the use of violence against peaceable protest has been historically common in the United States, though access to military weaponry by civilian police departments is a new factor. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  9/18/2020
  

  Police Power and the Election of Newark’s First Black Mayor

  by Andrew Grim

  Newark’s experience cautions today’s activists to be wary of channeling the urgency, the radicalism, the moral authority of this current moment into electoral politics.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  6/30/2020
  

  The Scars of Being Policed While Black (video)

  by Laurence Ralph

  Anthropologist and police violence researcher Laurence Ralph made the film above to explain exactly what it means to be policed in America today. It moves from my own experiences with racial profiling as a teenager to the horrific history of police torture in Chicago.

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• 6/28/2020
  

  Will George Floyd’s Murder Be Trump’s Undoing?

  by James D. Zirin

  Donald Trump seems to mistake the temper of the times. Will his instinct to divide the nation be his undoing? 

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• SOURCE: CommonWealth
  6/7/2020
  

  Protesting the George Floyd Killing: A Moment or a Movement?

  Certain moments “hit a collective nerve,” said historian Heather Ann Thompson.

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  6/7/2020
  

  George Floyd Protests have Created a Multicultural Movement that’s Making History

  The breadth and inclusivity of protests against police abuses is unlike prior waves of activism and experts suggest it may secure change where others have failed.

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• SOURCE: History.com
  6/5/2020
  

  How the Police Shooting of a Black Soldier Triggered the 1943 Harlem Riots

  Scholars Nikki Jones, Michael Flamm, and Dominic Capeci describe what exactly unfolded during these riots, what motivated them, and what they represented.

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• SOURCE: LA Progressive
  6/9/2020
  

  Subverting New York’s Police Brutality Policy

  by Lawrence Wittner

  Longstanding opposition from the Patrolman's Benevolent Association, the union of New York City police officers, has made meaningful civilian oversight of the police impossible. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6/4/2020
  

  Racism Won’t Be Solved by Yet Another Blue-Ribbon Report

  Elected officials instinctively turn to studying problems rather than solving them.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/01/2020
  

  Trump’s Warning that ‘Vicious Dogs’ Would Attack Protesters Conjured Centuries of Racial Terror

  Donald Trump invoked images of terror to discourage protesters against racial injustice according to historians Tyler D. Parry and Taylor Branch.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  1/23/20
  

  Rosa Parks on Police Brutality: The Speech We Never Heard

  by Say Burgin

  In 1965, Rosa Parks would have had a lot to say about police brutality.

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• 11/17/19
  

  Cracked Foundations: The Case for Reparations

  by Julia Brown

  Compensation for historically disadvantaged minorities is nothing new.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/15/19
  

  Why we can — and must — create a fairer system of traffic enforcement

  by Sarah A. Seo

  Its discretionary nature has left it ripe for abuse.