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Police use of force for blacks is 7 times higher than whites in Minneapolis. About 20 percent of Minneapolis’s population of 430,000 is black. But when the police get physical...
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Police use of force for blacks is 7 times higher than whites in Minneapolis. About 20 percent of Minneapolis’s population of 430,000 is black. But when the police get physical — with kicks, neck holds, punches, shoves, takedowns, Mace, Tasers or other forms of muscle — nearly 60 percent of the time the person subject to that force are black.
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6 JAN 2024 · Top Use Of Police Force Episodes 2023, Police Shoot 90 Times, Excessive Use Of Force, and Ranting Police are our top episodes for 2023.
20 MAR 2023 · A Las Cruces man who is alleging Las Cruces police officers shot him 90 times while unarmed is suing the police department. Jonathan Strickland and his attorney John Burris announced the federal civil rights lawsuit at a press conference on Wednesday
Strickland's wife had made a false abuse complaint to the Las Cruces police that she later recanted."I never threatened any of the officers I was unarmed never threatened any of them and I never did any of the things that woman accused me of," said Jonathan Strickland
24 JAN 2023 · MEMPHIS, Tenn. – The Memphis Police Department announced Friday that five officers were fired. Each one was involved in a traffic stop and the subsequent “excessive force” death of Tyre Nichols, according to the agency. The terminated officers were identified as Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Emmitt Martin III, Desmond Mills Jr., and Justin Smith. They are accused of using unlawful force against Nichols, who reportedly fought and fled from officers after he was stopped for reckless driving on Jan 7,
20 JAN 2023 · A Butler Twp. A police sergeant has been placed on leave after a video surfaced of him punching a woman during an arrest at a local Mcdonalds'. The customer's order was wrong, a dispute occurred with a worker and she s given a refund. Management of Mcdonald's calls the police to have the customer cited for trespassing.
20 JAN 2023 · When you are white and you do wrong, you can use your white privilege not to get terminated.
Tempe, Arizona - A cop was informed by hotel staff that the suspect was a white male wearing a black shirt, but Officer Kerzaya pulled EVERY black person he encountered. He later tazed a black man holding his child and enters his home without probable cause. Rather than being charged with a criminal offense, he gets his license to be a police officer pulled after several other incidents of misuse of his position come up. Mind you this took several years to reach a conclusion that should have been reached earlier
26 DEC 2022 · Top Use of Police Force Stories of 2022.
22 NOV 2022 · Sayce Holmes-Lewis was assaulted by the Metropolitan Police at age 14, and since then he has been stop-and-searched over 30 times.
Holmes-Lewis speaks to Insider about his experiences and the racism within UK policing. He now runs training sessions for police officers to change how they interact with the public. He is the founder and CEO of Nativity, a mentoring organization for young people.
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27 MAY 2022 · The Police response in the school shooting in Uvalde was a complete cluster fuck
19 APR 2022 · The Grand Rapids Police Department released video Wednesday of the fatal police shooting of Patrick Lyoya. He was shot in the back of his head.
12 MAR 2022 · Delaware County's district attorney announced charges against three officers in connection with the death of an 8-year-old girl and the wounding of three others after a football game on August 27, 2021.
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Police use of force for blacks is 7 times higher than whites in Minneapolis. About 20 percent of Minneapolis’s population of 430,000 is black. But when the police get physical...
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Police use of force for blacks is 7 times higher than whites in Minneapolis. About 20 percent of Minneapolis’s population of 430,000 is black. But when the police get physical — with kicks, neck holds, punches, shoves, takedowns, Mace, Tasers or other forms of muscle — nearly 60 percent of the time the person subject to that force are black.
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