By Cassandra Fairbanks | PINAC News | June 25, 2015 The rookie NYPD cop who shot and killed Akai Gurley in a stairwell last year waited almost 20 minutes to report the shooting, refusing to call for or provide medical assistance, as he bickered back and forth with his partner about who should be the […]
Post-Modern Slave Patrols By GARIKAI CHENGU | CounterPunch | May 4, 2015 Black people in America live in a police-state-within-a-state. The African American police state exercises its authority over the Black minority through an oppressive array of modern day lynchings by the police, increasing for-profit mass incarceration and the government sanctioned surveillance and assassination of […]
By Noel Brinkerhoff | AllGov | April 30, 2015 The New York City Police Department is back to doing something it was told by the courts decades ago to stop: interrogating demonstrators about their political behavior. At least a dozen people protesting the decision not to prosecute the police who killed Eric Garner were detained […]
Center for American Progress In 2011, the Center for American Progress published “Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America” in order to identify and expose the organizations, scholars, pundits, and activists comprising a tightly linked network that spread misinformation and hateful propaganda about American Muslims and Islam. The report found that seven […]
By Steven Wishnia | Dissent News Wire | April 1, 2015 Members of New York’s Church of Stop Shopping can say “Hallelujah!”—or “Earthalujah!,” as is their wont. This morning, criminal charges stemming from a Black Lives Matter protest last January were dismissed against their preacher, William “Reverend Billy” Talen. Talen was arrested while “sermonizing” during […]
You’re not falling for this I hope. It sounds at first so incredibly beneficial and even admirable. New York City’s getting ShotStopper. Here’s how it’s supposed to work. Microphones secreted about town whose sole purpose is to identify and triangulate gunshots in order to zero in on crime and make us all safe from the dastards who prey on the innocent.
RT | March 17, 2015 Two veteran New York City cops discovered to have altered Wikipedia entries related to high-profile police brutality cases from police headquarters won’t be punished, according to the commissioner. New York Police Department Commissioner Bill Bratton made the announcement Monday and said the two officers – whose names will not be […]
RT | March 13, 2015 The New York Police Department is reviewing reports that computers connected to the NYPD’s own network edited the Wikipedia pages for some of the more infamous recent events to involve the force, including the choking death of Eric Garner. Wikipedia articles pertaining to at least three individuals who died as […]
I believe that there will be ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the system of exploitation. I believe that there will be that kind of clash, but I don’t think it will be based on the color of the skin…
— Malcolm X, One Month Before His Murder
By Sue Udry | Dissent News Wire | January 29, 2015 NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton announced today the formation of a new, elite unit that will be specially trained and equipped to deal with dangerous situations like the hostage situation in Australia, lone wolf attacks and… protests. According to CBS News New York, Bratten really […]
