A 21-year-old Army Reservist and college student was mauled by a police dog early Sunday after police were called to break up a street fight involving a crowd of about three dozen people. London Colvin, 21, who is black, admitted attending a party that turned rowdy but said she wasn’t involve[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Racism’
January 29th, 2015 - 7:07 pm § in Uncategorized
Virginia police dog mauls peaceful black female Army Reservist
January 28th, 2015 - 6:43 pm § in Uncategorized
Fire this Seattle cop!
William Wingate, 70, likes to go for walks. He uses a golf club as a cane. On July 9, 2014, SPD Officer Cynthia Whitlach pulled over her squad car where Wingate was waiting at a crosswalk, got out, and ordered him to put down his golf club. He asked why, and she said, “Because it’s [&hel[...]
January 28th, 2015 - 11:47 am § in Uncategorized
South Carolina judge sets aside 1961 civil rights convictions
A South Carolina judge has righted a historic injustice by clearing the records of 9 black men convicted in 1961 of trespassing and breach of peace for sitting at a “whites only” lunch counter in Rock Hill, South Carolina. The men — a CORE organizer and 8 college students at the ti[...]
January 27th, 2015 - 12:51 am § in Uncategorized
GOP congressman equates minorities with teenagers
Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) said on C-Span last week that raising the $7.25 federal minimum wage would “rip the first rung in the ladder of opportunity for teenagers, for minorities, for people who are trying to get into the job market for their first job.” He continued, “If your labor is an u[...]
January 25th, 2015 - 8:56 pm § in Uncategorized
FBI investigates suspected lynching in North Carolina
The local police and coroner in the small town with a boarded-up KKK meeting hall quickly labeled a 17-year-old black youth’s strange death a suicide, and made no effort to investigate the possibility of foul play. First the NAACP stepped in, and now the FBI has opened an investigation. He had[...]
January 24th, 2015 - 5:45 pm § in Uncategorized
San Diego PD punishes black cop for complaining about racist training materials
In San Diego, a black police officer was passed over for promotion, pressured into taking an undesirable transfer, and threatened with disciplinary action for making “frivolous allegations of misconduct.” The “frivolous allegation” refers to his complaint about a racist cartoon used[...]
January 24th, 2015 - 12:07 am § in Uncategorized
Free at last
A 70-year-old North Carolina black man framed by police was freed from prison today after serving 38 years of a life sentence for a double murder he didn’t commit. Joseph Sledge was convicted by testimony of a jailhouse informant who was coached by cops about what to say, and promised leniency[...]
January 23rd, 2015 - 9:56 am § in Uncategorized
3 Southern States Hijack MLK Day To Honor Robert E. Lee
In a slap at Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement three former Confederate states — Alabama, Arkansas, and Mississippi — have turned the federal holiday of MLK Day into state holidays jointly honoring the birthdays of Dr. King and Confederate General Robert E. Lee, milita[...]
January 23rd, 2015 - 9:41 am § in Uncategorized
Florida vigilante assumes Second Amendment is only for whites
White guy in Walmart sees black guy packing gun. So he heroically tackles the black guy and puts him in a chokehold while waiting for sheriff’s deputies to arrive. Three other white guys also pitched in to help Michael Foster, 43, subdue Clarence Daniels, 62. One little problem: Daniels wasn&#[...]
January 23rd, 2015 - 12:03 am § in Uncategorized
White cop pushes black man in wheelchair off curb into street
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