Police Brutality

Iranian Police Vehicle Purportedly Runs Over Protester (VIDEO)

Posted 12.30.2009 | World


A video posted on YouTube reportedly shows shocking footage of Iranian police running down a group of protesters on Sunday in Tehran. The video appea...

BART Police Officer's LA Murder Trial Will Be Ugly

Pamela Tom | Posted 12.08.2009 | Los Angeles


Pamela Tom

What started out as a win for the defense -- getting the murder trial of former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle moved -- will now become an even more publicized case reminiscent of Rodney King.

Michael Joseph Gibson: Suspect Injured After BART Officer Appears To Smash Head Into Window (VIDEO)

Posted 11.23.2009 | Home


Transit police in California are facing questions over use-of-force after another controversial video surfaced on YouTube. The latest clip was titled ...

Media Decides Tasered Grandmother Was Asking for It

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics


Allison Kilkenny

The media is portraying Winkfein as an irrational hag, who somehow deserved to be shocked with 50,000 volts of electricity after getting mouthy with a police officer.

Slumdogs And Americans: Equal Opportunity Police Brutality in India

Mira Kamdar | Posted 10.13.2009 | World


Mira Kamdar

Anyone who has seen Slumdog Millionaire, remembers the scenes of police torture. Last week, American journalist, Joel Elliott, got to experience that violence first-hand.

Christopher Lloyd, Cop In Taped Beating Of Special Ed Student, Jailed On Rape Charge (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 10.09.2009 | Chicago


A south suburban Chicago police officer who was caught on a security camera beating up a high school special education student in May is in an Indiana...

Cop Caught On Camera Beating Special Education Student Marshawn Pitts (WATCH)

Huffington Post | Posted 10.07.2009 | Chicago


A south suburban Chicago police officer was caught on a security camera beating up a high school special education student, CBS2 reports. Marshawn Pi...

Joseph Rios: Ronnie Holloway Beating Cop Indicted

Posted 11.28.2009 | New York


Police officer Joseph Rios, who was caught on surveillance tape beating a disabled man, has been indicted on misconduct and assault charges. Rios sto...

Forty Years After Chicago, We Have Not Found the Things We Lost

Judy Collins | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics


Judy Collins

The Chicago Seven were very serious peace activists and were baited into a festival of confusion instead of a festival of life in Chicago in 1968, launched to take the focus off the war.

Denver Police Brutality Case: City Council May Pay $225,000 In Federal Suit

The Denver Post | Christopher N. Osher | Posted 11.21.2009 | Denver


The Denver City Council is poised to settle for $225,000 a federal lawsuit alleging that Denver police brutalized and repeatedly used a Taser on a man...

Racism, John McCain and Other Republicans

Norm Stamper | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics


Norm Stamper

In 1976, 30 of my 31 police officers confessed to on-the-job use of the most vile, invective, racist language you can imagine. How do we confront the barefaced bigotry we see today?

Stonewall 2009: Police Raid Gay Bar in Atlanta on Account of Because.

Mike Alvear | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics


Mike Alvear

For two hours, sixty gay men were forced to lay face down on the bar's filthy floors. Not a single man was arrested. Or given an apology. Or given a reason for why they were held against their will.

Anniversary: Chicago '68

Michael Kaplan | Posted 10.14.2009 | Chicago


Michael Kaplan

All things converged to one night: tonight, forty-one years ago. The police found the fuse and lit it.

Man dies after being Tasered at LA subway station

AP | Posted 09.27.2009 | Home


LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department says a man has died after a deputy shocked him three times with an electric stun gun a...

The Gates Affair: Why We Care

Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics


Daniel Bruno Sanz

Inheritance is White, poor credit scores, Black. A missing woman is White and a fugitive on the loose is Black.

Back to Black Man 101

Terrance Heath | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics


Terrance Heath

Anger, if you are a minority, is dangerous. If you are a woman, a person of color, gay, etc., your movements must be calm, your voice must be modulated, and your anger must never show.

Let's All Have a Beer and Talk Police Work

Norm Stamper | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics


Norm Stamper

The president, wounded by a wave of criticism, hounded by police union demands for an apology and struggling to get the country's focus back on health care, did a very smart thing.

Gates's Arbitrary Arrest: It Happens in New York Too

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 08.27.2009 | New York


Michael Henry Adams

Irrespective of how educated or rich one might be, to be a black man in America is still a condition in which one feels he has no rights that any police officer is bound to respect.

New Mexico Teen Girl Tasered In The Head By Police Chief (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 08.08.2009 | Home


The use of tasers by law enforcement is becoming increasingly controversial as more examples emerge of them being used improperly and causing victims ...

Fort Worth Gay Bar Raid No Accident

Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics


Emma Ruby-Sachs

Stonewall was an expression of power and identity in the face of forced anonymity and oppression. The raid at Fort Worth is a different story altogether.

Gay Bar Raid In Texas Protested: Excessive Force Alleged

Associated Press | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics


FORT WORTH (AP) -- Protesters upset with the way police conducted a raid on a gay nightclub rallied in downtown Fort Worth. Seven people were arreste...

Protesters Rally As 1968 Democratic Convention Riot Police Hold Reunion

Chicago Tribune | Lauren R. Harrison | Posted 07.28.2009 | Chicago


More than 70 people gathered on the Near West Side Friday night to protest a reunion of Chicago police officers who served during demonstrations at th...

What the Mainstream Media's Not Telling You About the Police Brutality in Iran

Lee Camp | Posted 07.22.2009 | Comedy


Lee Camp

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72-YEAR-OLD WOMAN TASERED: Caught On Police Dashcam

Post Chronicle | Posted 07.12.2009 | Home


72-YEAR-OLD WOMAN TASERED: In Texas a police officer tasered a 72-year-old woman after a fight about a speeding ticket. Deputy Chris Bieze was confro...

Police Taser Great-Grandmother During Traffic Stop (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 07.10.2009 | Home


In what looks to be a case of police brutality, a 72-year-old great-grandmother was tasered after apparently refusing to sign a ticket during a traffi...