On August 24, a police officer in Columbus, Ohio shot dead a woman in her car. Ta’Kiya Young was 21 years old, yet in spite of her young age she was said to be the mother of both a 3 year old and a 6 year old. She was also pregnant. The police had been […]
If you haven’t heard the name Hunter Brittain, the teenager was shot dead by an Arkansas deputy in the small hours of June 23. Hunter was unarmed. And white, which is probably why you haven’t heard of him. Black conservative Tommy Sotomayor doesn’t appear to have heard of him until mid-August, but he certainly made […]
This spring, an estimated 800,000 Americans gathered in Washington, DC to participate in the “March for Our Lives” organized by the teenage survivors of the school massacre in Parkland, Florida. Thousands more attended 800 sister marches across the nation and around the world for gun reform.
While the shooting death of Stephon Clark has made national headlines over the last two weeks, it is not the first questionable shooting the Sacramento, Calif., Police Department has had. It is just one in a long list of many questionable incidents or activities the department has been linked to.
Each and every time there is a police shooting that results in the death of the victim, there is a rush to dig up every bad thing the person ever did, starting from the day they were born. Why don’t we do this for police departments?
In the American police state, police have a tendency to shoot first and ask questions later. In fact, police don’t usually need much incentive to shoot and kill members of the public.
WASHINGTON – The Washington Post reported that 2017 saw close to a thousand people killed by law enforcement in the U.S. — 987 people in total, an increase of 16 over the number killed in 2016.
BLM protesters outsideof the Minneapolis Police Department’s Third Precinct Nov. 25, 2014. (AP/Jim Mone)
In 2017 alone, police have killed 746 people in the U.S., according to the Killed By Police database, which puts this year on pace to become the deadliest year on record. In contrast, in the first seven months of 2016, police killed 714 people; the number was slightly higher in 2015 with 725 killed, and it was noticeably lower in 2014 with 663 killed and in 2013 with 353 killed.
Police shootings, especially aimed at people of color, have inflamed tensions between communities and the police sworn to protect them, raising difficult questions about attitudes and training, says ex-police officer William John Cox. By William John Cox The People of…Read more →
