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Newly released NYPD data shows shocking disparity in stop-and-frisks
NYPD forced to make 10 years of data public for the first time in racial profiling class action One of the half million NYPD stop-and-frisks last year – how would you feel? New York City – The Center...
View Article‘I Am Sean Bell: Black Boys Speak’
I AM SEAN BELL, black boys speak from Stacey Muhammad on Vimeo. On Nov. 25, 2006, undercover NYPD officers fired at least 50 rounds of bullets into a car carrying three UNARMED men of African American...
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New NYPD data shows record number of stop-and-frisks in 12-month period
531,000 New Yorkers stopped and frisked in 2008: Numbers show shocking racial disparities One of the over half million yearly NYPD stop-and-frisks: More than 80 percent are of Blacks and Latinos. –...
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Wanda’s Picks for February 2011
by Wanda Sabir African American Celebration through Poetry Wanda journeyed to Africa during her winter break from teaching. Here she checks out the exhibits at the Black World Arts and Culture Festival...
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Is Britain burning with racism and economic inequality?
by Colin Benjamin Jobless Londoners wait in a welfare line in South East London. Overall unemployment in the U.K. is approximately 2.46 million, with 1.49 million people claiming unemployment benefits...
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Occupy Wall Street cops and mobbers
by Jon Naar “We shall not be overrun!” – NYPD Sgt. Gonzalez As some of you know, I’ve been around bobbies, cops, fuzz, flics, Gestapo and other police since the British General Strike 1926 and the...
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Stop the supercop! All out to Oakland City Hall Tuesday!
Stop the supercop at Oakland City Council Tuesday, Jan. 15 – rally in Oscar Grant Plaza outside City Hall at 5 p.m., Council meeting 5:30 by Critical Resistance Under the cover of year-end distraction,...
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No Bratton-style policing in Oakland: Unraveling the fraying edges of zero...
by Rachel Herzing This banner sums up the reasons for the strong, persistent opposition to gang injunctions and other kinds of zero tolerance policing in targeted parts of Oakland. – Photo: JBP,...
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Was Oakland police consultant William Bratton involved in the failed...
by Jean Damu Oakland Post photographer Gene Hazzard, one of over 200 who testified Jan. 22 on the $250,000 contract to hire “supercop” Bill Bratton, represented what appears to be unanimous opposition...
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Report from China: ‘Human Rights Record of the United States in 2012’
by the State Council Information Office of the People’s Republic of China The State Department of the United States recently released its Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2012, posing as...
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NYC Mayor Bloomberg: Fingerprint public housing residents and visitors
by Jennifer Trent Parker In this morning’s John Gambling radio show, Mayor Michael Bloomberg criticized Davis v. City of New York, a putative class action lawsuit filed by the NAACP Legal Defense and...
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A mother’s cry
by Billie Bottom-Brown I am writing this statement with the hope of enlightening the media, social media and our United States government, attempting to make them aware of our forgotten political...
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UN Human Rights Committee finds US in violation on 25 counts
by Adam Hudson While President Obama told the country to “look forward, not backward” when it came to Bush’s torture program, the United Nations has taken a different route. Recently, the U.N. Human...
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Eric Garner, father of 6, killed in chokehold by NYPD for selling untaxed...
by Herb Boyd “I can’t breathe! I can’t breathe!” gasped Eric Garner, 43, an asthmatic father of six, as NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo held him in a death grip. Pantaleo has been accused of being heavy...
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To win justice for Michael Brown, send the Black press to Ferguson, Missouri
Listen below to JR’s first interviews: ‘Live From Ferguson: St. Louis reporter Dani Rae speaks’ and ‘Cephus ‘Uncle Bobby’ Johnson, uncle of Oscar Grant, in Ferguson’ by SF Bay View This is the official...
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Ten illegal police actions to watch for in Ferguson
by Bill Quigley “Police officers move in to arrest protesters as they push and clear crowds out of the West Florissant Avenue area in Ferguson, Mo., early Wednesday, Aug. 20,” reads the AP caption. –...
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People power grows, demands justice
by Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers Protesters in New York City Dec. 4 demand change after the refusal to indict the police officer who murdered Eric Garner with a chokehold. – Photo: Ellen Davidson...
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Athlete-activists can’t be scared silent after the murder of two NYPD officers
by Dave Zirin Over the last month, we have seen a veritable “Sports World Spring” as athletes have spoken out on politics in a manner unseen since the 1960s. They have been inspired by the...
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U.S. cops kill at 100 times rate of other capitalist countries
by Richard Becker Capitalist politicians here often promote the reactionary and dangerous idea of “American exceptionalism,” by which they mean that the United States is superior to all other...
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NYPD on trial: NBA player Thabo Sefolosha fights back after police beating
The police broke Thabo Sefolosha’s leg. His testimony, and the testimony of witnesses, could mean that they will not get away with it. by Dave Zirin NBA player Thabo Sefolosha had his leg broken by...
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