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Jun 15 2020
News
What Defunding Police Departments Really Means For Black Communities
For Valerie Castile, the heart-wrenching video of George Floyd’s life being extinguished by a Minneapolis police officer, stirred painful emotions. Back in 2016, the Minnesota mother lost her son in what’s become a national crisis: police killing Black people across America.
“I’ve been crying for other people, and I cried for my own child,” said Castile in an exclusive interview with
BETJun 05 2012
News
Wisconsin Votes on Recall of Governor
Sixteen months after Wisconsin erupted into one of the fiercest political wars in residents’ memories, voters began streaming into polling places on Tuesday to decide whether to remove Gov. Scott Walker, the Republican whose decision to cut collective bargaining rights for most public workers set off the fight.
Mr. Walker, who cast his own vote at a school in this city’s suburbs not
New York Times (News)Jun 03 2020
Opinion
Riots Are Violence
And will the burning ‘forests’ grow back?
t’s weird that this needs to be said, but here we are.
Then again, the pundit who reprehensibly claims that destroying property “is not violence” risks nothing. She agitates for revolution from the safety of her apartment. Much the same, I suspect, most of those excusing the destruction of our cities — either contending that businesses “
David HarsanyiMar 20 2020
News
Grocery clerks get a new title: Emergency responders
They’re in some of the lowest-paid occupations, yet the stockers and cashiers in food stores do tasks that are indispensable to life in a modern society. Now that’s being recognized in a way that often isn’t.
Every day the nation’s 3 million food-store workers deliver the goods, stock the shelves, and ring up the sales that keep America fed. Only now, the coronavirus pandemic has thrust
Christian Science MonitorDec 18 2019
News
Impeachment Divides a Nation, a District and a Dinner Table
Kathryn Whitaker’s support for impeaching President Trump makes sense in this corner of South Carolina: She is a Democrat and a candidate for the State Senate.
“The president really put his personal interests and professional interests over the country’s,” said Ms. Whitaker, 37. “He was caught abusing his power.”
But her position is complicated by the most intimate relationship
New York Times (News)Aug 17 2014
News
Seven arrested, 1 shot as police use tear gas on protesters defying Ferguson curfew
Police fired smoke and tear gas canisters early Sunday in an effort to disperse several dozen protesters who defied a curfew in a St. Louis suburb where a black teenager was fatally shot by a white police officer last week.
The Missouri Highway Patrol said that seven people were arrested and one man had been shot at the site of the protest in Ferguson, Mo. Missouri State Highway Patrol
Fox News (Online News)Mar 13 2015
News
'Blood Is Still Red': Ferguson Fears Setback As Cop-Shooter Eludes Manhunt
As reporters flocked back to this St. Louis suburb following the ambush shooting of two officers outside the police department overnight, residents, law enforcement and protesters were on edge. Many said they were angered that a gunman’s bullets may threaten to interrupt a community on the cusp of significant change.
The shooter -- described by Attorney General Eric Holder as “ damn
HuffPostJun 11 2020
Analysis
Network news cover Georgia election “meltdown” — to mixed results
ABC News gave scant coverage, and missed key issues completely in order to blame local Democratic officials
The three major broadcast networks have each begun covering the debacle that took place in Tuesday’s primary election in Georgia, where many waited in hours-long lines to vote.
CBS, NBC, and ABC all aired segments on the Georgia voting mess, with CBS providing the most
Media MattersNov 23 2014
News
Mike Brown's Mom Urges Ferguson Protesters To Remain Peaceful
The mother of Michael Brown, the unarmed 18-year-old shot dead by a police officer in this St. Louis suburb on Aug. 9, urged protesters to stay peaceful Saturday night as they waited to find out if a grand jury will indict the officer for killing her son.
"I just want y'all to be careful. Don't agitate them, don't let them agitate y'all. I don't want nobody getting hurt," Lesley
HuffPostJul 17 2020
Analysis
The State Where Protests Have Already Forced Major Police Reform
A first-in-the-nation Colorado law aimed at police accountability has activists celebrating and officers worrying.
In loveland, colorado—the nation’s self-proclaimed “Sweetheart City,” about an hour’s drive north of Denver—a young police officer paused earlier this month as he was arresting a pregnant woman who had outstanding warrants. Should he handcuff her, the officer asked his
The Atlantic