The surprise is how racist the Northeast is under this measuring methodology. (From Daily Kos) [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Racism’
May 28th, 2015 - 9:26 pm § in Uncategorized
NYC Housing Authority acts to protect employees from cops
The New York City Housing is requiring its employees to wear orange vests, ordering them to wear ID tags, and giving them special training to reduce their chances of being shot by police. Read the story here.[...]
May 28th, 2015 - 4:40 pm § in Uncategorized
A clearcut case of self-defense
From Raw Story: “A Minnesota journalist says her parents, who are Muslim Americans, were victims of an armed hate crime in a Minneapolis suburb. … Around 11:00 PM last Friday, Majida and Adly Abumayaleh drove … to pick up their teenage son from a party in a residential neighb[...]
May 28th, 2015 - 8:26 am § in Uncategorized
Chicago PD didn’t want you to see this photo
It’s a Polaroid snapshot ca. 1999-2003 of two cops posing with rifles over a black guy wearing antlers. It was released this week by a Chicago judge over police officials’ objections, according to CNN (click here for story). Neither of the cops, Tim McDermott and Jerome Finnigan, is stil[...]
May 25th, 2015 - 1:16 pm § in Uncategorized
How can cops be so terribly wrong, yet not go to jail?
A car backfires, but cops think they hear a gunshot aimed at them, chase the car down, and fire 137 bullets into it. The two people inside, including a totally innocent female passenger, end up dead — each shot more than 20 times. Michael Brelo, the cop who jumped up on the car’s hood af[...]
May 23rd, 2015 - 8:37 am § in Uncategorized
Protests erupt in Cleveland after judge acquits killer cop
Demonstrators took to the streets in Cleveland this morning after a white judge acquitted a white police officer who killed the unarmed black occupants of a vehicle by standing on the hood and firing through the windshield. Police had chased the car after hearing a backfire noise they thought was a [...]
May 15th, 2015 - 2:25 pm § in Uncategorized
Black Monopoly
“Black Monopoly” is a version of the board game in which all the players are black and go to jail no matter which square they land on. It was invented by the Miami Beach police department. I don’t know if they’ve applied for a patent. (Click here for story.)[...]
Stall em out
The world is Sick and tired of the ongoing fighting between Israel and Palestine, it is safe to say that the world wants peace between the two. 135 nations recognize Palestine as a state, the UN granted Palestine with observer-state status in 2012. The recent news that the Vatican now recognizes P[...]
May 11th, 2015 - 6:32 pm § in Uncategorized
This isn’t legitimate policing.
An ACLU lawsuit on behalf of Lateef Dickerson and a federal judge’s order compelled the Dover, Delaware police department to release this police dashcam video after two years of stonewalling, and the release of the video resulted in a second grand jury indicting Dover police officer Thomas Web[...]