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Police Brutality

Iranian Police Vehicle Purportedly Runs Over Protester (VIDEO)

Posted 12.30.2009 | World

Read More: Iran Police, Iran Opposition, Iran Protests, Police Brutality, Iran, Iran Protests 2009, Iran-Opposition, Police Brutality Video, World News

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...

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BART Police Officer's LA Murder Trial Will Be Ugly

Pamela Tom | Posted 12.08.2009 | Los Angeles

Read More: Murder, Racial Justice, LAPD Police Chief, Oscar Grant, Henry Gates, Bart, Johannes Mehserle, Los Angeles, Racial Profiling, Lapd, Police Brutality, Los Angeles News
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.

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

Posted 11.23.2009 | Home

Read More: Use of Force, Video, BART Police, Bart, Window, West Oakland, San Francisco, Face, Police Window, Police Brutality, Face Window, Bay Area, Home News

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

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Media Decides Tasered Grandmother Was Asking for It

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Police Brutality, Taser, Tasers, Kathryn Winkfein, Police, Police Brutality Video, Politics News
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.

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Slumdogs And Americans: Equal Opportunity Police Brutality in India

Mira Kamdar | Posted 10.13.2009 | World

Read More: Journalists, New Delhi, Police Brutality, Maximum City, India, Police, Slumdog Millionaire, World News
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.

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

Huffington Post | Posted 10.09.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Christopher Lloyd Rape, Police Brutality, Christopher Lloyd, Dolton, Marshawn Pitts, Marshawn Pitts Video, Chicago News

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...

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

Huffington Post | Posted 10.07.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Dolton Police Beating, Marshawn Pitts Beating, Marshawn Pitts, Police Brutality, Video, Dolton, Marshawn Pitts Video, Chicago News

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

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Joseph Rios: Ronnie Holloway Beating Cop Indicted

Posted 11.28.2009 | New York

Read More: Police Brutality, Video, Rios Indicted, Passaic, New Jersey, Ronnie Holloway, Joseph Rios, New York News

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

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

Judy Collins | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Democratic Convention, Lee Weiner, The Chicago 10, 1968 Democratic National Convention, 1968 Chicago, Judy Collins, Police Brutality, Tom Hayden, Folk Music, Jerry Rubin, Rennie-Davis, Abbie Hoffman, Yippies, David Dellinger, John Froines, Politics News
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.

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

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

Read More: Denver City Council, Police Brutality, Denver Police, Denver News

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...

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Racism, John McCain and Other Republicans

Norm Stamper | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gop, Birthers, John McCain, Teabaggers, Racial Bias, N-Word, Police, Police Brutality, Immigration, Attitude Arrests, Racist, Ethnic Slurs, Arab, Joe Wilson, Jimmy Carter, Discrimination, Republicans, Political Correctness, Adolf Hitler, Health Care, Bigotry, Politics News
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?

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

Mike Alvear | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: The Eagle, Atlanta, Police Raid Gay Bar, Stonewall, Police Brutality, Gay, Gay Rights, Gay Bashing, Gay Issues, Stonewall 2009, Politics News
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.

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Anniversary: Chicago '68

Michael Kaplan | Posted 10.14.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Police Brutality, Vietnam War Protests, Riot, 1968, Chicago, Yippies, Convention, Chicago News
Michael Kaplan

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

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Man dies after being Tasered at LA subway station

AP | Posted 09.27.2009 | Home

Read More: La, L.A., Police Brutality, Tasered, Tasers, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Los Angeles, Home News

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...

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The Gates Affair: Why We Care

Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Troy Davis, Ruben Blades, Al Sharpton, Capital Punishment, Iowa Primaries, James Baldwin, D.C. Statehood, Gitmo, Pablo Escobar, Police Brutality, Liberation Theology, James Crowley, L.A. Riots, Botero, Mount Pleasant STreet Riot, Elijah Mohammed, Civil Rights, Rodney King, Sharon Pratt Dixon, Criminal Just Us System, War on Crime, Vietnam War, Illegal Immigrants, 4th Amendment, Malcolm X, Abu-Ghraib, Pennymac, Louis Farrakhan, The Greaseman, Gentrification, Langston Hughes, Blogosphere, Pedro Navaja, Bill Clinton, Einstein, Colin Powell, Inverse Surveillance, Colombia Road, Adams Morgan, Condoleeza Rice, Jesse Jackson, Driving While Black, Racial Profiling, Barack Obama, Mayor Bradley, Jim Crow, Marion Barry, 2nd Amendment, Martin Luther King, Park Road, Vicente Fernandez, Cambridge Police Department, Skip Gates, Lapd, War on Drugs, Pancho Villa, LosTigres Del Norte, Wpfw, Mariachis, Politics News
Daniel Bruno Sanz

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

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Back to Black Man 101

Terrance Heath | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Blacks, President Obama, Profiling, Police Brutality, Race, Henry Louis Gates Arrested, Henry Louis Gates, Class, Racial Profiling, Politics News
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.

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Let's All Have a Beer and Talk Police Work

Norm Stamper | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Police Work, Harvard, Disorderly Conduct, President Obama, Beer, Police Brutality, Cambridge Police Department, Sgt. Crowley, Pot, Police Oppression, Henry Louis Gates, Guns, Police Bias, Politics News
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.

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

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 08.27.2009 | New York

Read More: First Amendment, Mayor Bloomberg, Barack Obama Racism, Rnc, Williams Sisters, Police Brutality, Bill Gates, Barack Obama, Change, Ophrah Winfrey, Tiger Woods, False-Arrest, Racism, NY Times, Congressman Charles B. Rangel, Henry Louis Gates Arrested, Henry Louis Gates, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court Justices, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, New York News
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.

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

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 08.08.2009 | Home

Read More: Girl Tasered, Video, New Mexico Girl Tasered, Taser, Crime, Police Brutality, Teen Tasered, Girl Tasered Video, Home News

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

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Fort Worth Gay Bar Raid No Accident

Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Equality, LGBT Issues, Intolerance, Gay Bashing, Police, Police Brutality, Equal Rights, Matthew Shepard, Rainbow Lounge, Boys Don't Cry, Fort Worth-Texas, Lgbt, Texas, Gay Rights, LGBT Rights, Homophobia, Discrimination, Fort Worth, Gay Bars, Politics News
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.

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Gay Bar Raid In Texas Protested: Excessive Force Alleged

Associated Press | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Texas, Fort-Worth-Star-Telegram, Gay Rights, Fort Worth, Police, Police Brutality, Gay, Stonewall, Politics News

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...

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Protesters Rally As 1968 Democratic Convention Riot Police Hold Reunion

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

Read More: Police Riots, 1968 Democratic National Convention, Police Brutality, Chicago Copwatch, Chicago Police Department, Chicago Police Riots Reunion, 1968 Democratic Convention Riots, Chicago Police Riots, Chicago News

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...

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

Lee Camp | Posted 07.22.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Police Brutality, Iran, Iran Election, Comedy News
Lee Camp

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

Post Chronicle | Posted 07.12.2009 | Home

Read More: Police Brutality, 72-Year-Old Woman Tasered, 72 Year Old Woman Tasered, Home News

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...

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Police Taser Great-Grandmother During Traffic Stop (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 07.10.2009 | Home

Read More: Police Tasers Great Grandmother Video, Police Tasers Grandmother, Police Brutality, Video, Police Tasers Old Woman, Cop Tasers Old Woman, 72 Year Old Woman Tasered, Grandma Tasered, Grandmother Tasered, 72 Year Old Tasered, Great Grandmother Tasered, Old Lady Tasered, 72 Year Old Taser, Grandma Taser, Tasered Grandma, 72 Year Old Tased, Taser Grandmother, Taser Grandma, Grandmother Taser, Police Officer Shoots 72-Year-Old Texas Woman With Taser During Traffic Stop, Home News

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...

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