Eric Garner’s daughter staged a ‘die-in’ at the same spot where her father died. She marched with protesters in the New York City borough of Staten Island on Thursday, expressing her disgust with the court’s ruling not to punish her father’s killer. RT.com “I still feel like I’m in a …
Read More »Congressional Staffers Walk Out From Jobs to Protest the Recent Lack of Indictments of Killer Cops
Washington D.C. — On Thursday afternoon congressional staffers planned a walk out to protest the recent lack of indictments in the Eric Garner and Michael Brown grand jury decisions. The powerful image is quickly going viral as it portrays dozens of staffers raising their hands in the air to invoke Brown’s …
Read More »Cop Won’t Face Charges After Breaking Woman’s Face While She Was Handcuffed in Cruiser
A Seattle Police Department Officer will not face felony charges for punching an African American woman in the face after she was placed in handcuffs, local county prosecutors said. RT.com The controversial decision was made despite video evidence of the confrontation, reported the Seattle Times, which took place between Officer …
Read More »Anonymous Brings Down Oakland PD Website After Cops Gas Protesters
The fifth night of nationwide protests over the widespread failure of the system to prosecute white officers who kill unarmed black men and boys, culminated in hacktivist group Anonymous taking down the Police Department’s website in Oakland, California. RT.com The group was responding to the firing of tear gas at …
Read More »Chicago Cops Used Stingray to Intercept Protester’s Conversations
Anonymous leaks government communication detailing real-time cell phone surveillance An audio recording leaked by the hacktivist group Anonymous appears to prove that Chicago police used an IMSI catcher, commonly referred to as a Stingray, to intercept phone calls during an Eric Garner protest Thursday evening. MIKAEL THALEN | INFOWARS.COM IMSI …
Read More »The War on the Right To Exist Wages on As Cops Clear Largest Homeless Camp in the US
Authorities in San Jose have cleared out “The Jungle,” considered one of the largest homeless encampments in the nation, as high rents and tough economic times have hit many in California’s Silicon Valley, a region where the tech industry dominates. RT.com Municipal workers, including police and social services, as well …
Read More »Imagine That: When San Francisco Stopped Prosecuting Drug Users, Violent Crime Went Down
“Not trying to just keep a stat game going on arresting people for narcotics has not hurt us in trying to achieve our goal in trying to make San Francisco safest” ReasonTV An interview with San Francisco police chief Greg Suhr. “I’m a narc. I’ve been a narcotics guy forever,” …
Read More »NYC Mayor Announces Police Retraining Course Amid Nationwide Protests
New York authorities have unveiled an overhaul in NYPD tactics and training as racial tensions reach an all-time high after a grand jury verdict not to indict an NYPD police officer over the chokehold death of Eric Garner. RT.com Addressing the ongoing protests that have paralyzed the Big Apple, NYC’s …
Read More »Attorney General Vows to End Racial Profiling “Once and For All”
“Our police officers cannot be seen as an occupying force disconnected from the communities they serve. Bonds that have been broken must be restored. Bonds that never existed must now be created.” The attorney general of the United States said this week that the Department of Justice will soon officially …
Read More »#TIMEPOY: Ferguson Protesters Lead TIME’s Person of the Year Poll
With just over a week before TIME names its person of the year, the Ferguson protesters have surged ahead to first place in the magazine’s symbolic annual reader’s poll. RT.com Following a grand jury’s decision not to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson over the fatal shooting of an unarmed …
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