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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.
Mira Kamdar | Posted 10.13.2009 | World
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.
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...
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...
Posted 09.28.2009 | 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...
Judy Collins | Posted 09.23.2009 | Politics
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.
The Denver Post | Christopher N. Osher | Posted 09.21.2009 | 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...
Norm Stamper | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics
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?
Mike Alvear | Posted 09.15.2009 | Politics
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.
Michael Kaplan | Posted 10.14.2009 | Chicago
All things converged to one night: tonight, forty-one years ago. The police found the fuse and lit it.
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...
Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics
Inheritance is White, poor credit scores, Black. A missing woman is White and a fugitive on the loose is Black.
Terrance Heath | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics
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.
Norm Stamper | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics
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.
Michael Henry Adams | Posted 08.27.2009 | New York
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.
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 ...
Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics
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.
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...
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...
Lee Camp | Posted 07.22.2009 | Comedy
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...
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...
AP | DON BABWIN | Posted 07.03.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- A hulking Chicago police officer who claimed he pummeled a female bartender half his size because he thought he was in danger was foun...
AP | DON BABWIN | Posted 07.02.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- A hulking Chicago police officer who bragged about the size of his muscles got tossed around "like a rag doll" by a female bartender h...
Posted 06.13.2009 | Home
NBC Chicago highlights a nasty piece of police brutality that was caught on tape in El Monte, California. After leading police on a high-speed chase,...
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Allison Kilkenny | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics