Showing posts with label police violence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label police violence. Show all posts
Saturday, February 9, 2019

Addendum to a botched drug raid

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Here is a link to the actual warrant for the botched drug raid. The article states that the warrant had been uplifted to Scribd, but when...
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Friday, February 8, 2019

Anatomy of a botched drug raid

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Last month five officers from the Houston Police Department were injured - four were shot - in a drug raid gone incredibly wrong. At the tim...
Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Blaming the victim, Texas style

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This is a video that Texas now requires all high school students to view. Its purpose is to "teach" students how to interact wit...
Friday, September 14, 2018

Let's have some smoke with that whitewash

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Oh, and you just thought the drama surrounding the killing of Botha Shem Jean by an off-duty Dallas police officer was over. How wrong you w...
Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Whitewashing a police shooting in Dallas

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Did y'all hear the one about the off-duty cop who walked into the wrong apartment and then accidentally shot the person who actually liv...
Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Internal investigation? What internal investigation?

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In 2015, the family of Darryl Mount, Jr., filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city of Saratoga Springs, NY, then Public Safety commis...
Friday, June 8, 2018

Let the beatings continue

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For those of y'all who live in Donald Trump's fantasy world, this is the reality of why Colin Kaepernick took a knee during the play...
Monday, May 14, 2018

Turning the tables

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ACLU ‏ Verified account   @ACLU   May 8 More Federal hate crimes laws were passed to correct the centuries of i...
Friday, April 6, 2018

Two cities. Two men. Two very different outcomes.

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Cops aren't racists. Every situation is different. If you just follow orders, you won't get shot. White folks get shot, too. We...
Friday, March 30, 2018

Two cities. Two men. Two killings.

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Stephon Clark and Danny Ray Thomas didn't know each other. They lived hundreds of miles apart. Mr. Clark lived in Sacramento and Mr. Tho...
Friday, February 9, 2018

Tennessee sheriff gets off on killing

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Ordinarily, if you tell someone to shoot someone else - and they do - you're going to find yourself in hot water. But Sheriff Oddie Shou...
Monday, January 22, 2018

The language we use

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I will never forget my English teacher from 7th grade. She drilled into our heads the evil that is the passive voice. If we wrote a sentence...
Sunday, December 24, 2017

Merry Christmas from the Bexar County Sheriff's Office

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Kameron Prescott was a 6-year-old who lived in a trailer park in Shertz, Texas (just outside San Antonio). I use the word was  because on th...