The activist discusses how to keep communities safe without policing as we know it.
After only 10 hours, Derek Chauvin’s jury found him guilty. In Minneapolis the mood was a mix of hope, joy and a much-needed sense of relief.
The “changemakers” of one Minneapolis activist group use art and community outreach to help their city understand George Floyd’s death.
As the trial of George Floyd’s alleged killer unfolds in Minneapolis, a nation takes a long look at itself in the mirror.
Since 2002, USC has spent more than $550 million on its police force. Community critics say armed officers feel more like an occupying force than a security necessity.
Hollywood has a tradition of glorifying cops. Here are some of the worst examples.
“‘We need a society where anti-racism is hard-wired into every policy and practice,” says labor economist Steven Pitts.
Thousands of protesters gathered in front of Los Angeles District Attorney Jackie Lacey’s office on June 10.
For two weeks the LAPD seemed bent on squashing protests – and on fighting the mayor and other critics in government.
The Minneapolis Police Department’s long and bigoted legacy.
The Black Lives Matter demonstration demanded an end to police violence against people of color.
Idris Goodwin’s play revolves around two hip-hop performers, one black and one white, who have been friends since childhood.
According to the Washington Post ‘s “Fatal Force” report, 995 people were shot dead by police officers in 2018.
Recent reports on the use of force by California law enforcement officers reveal a rise in the number of deadly civilian encounters with police.
L.A. County deputies shot and killed Anthony Weber during a foot chase on Feb 4, 2018. They said they spotted a handgun tucked into his pants, but investigators never recovered a weapon.
Eight months after Kisha Michael, 31, and Marquintan Sandlin, 32, were shot to death in their car, there are still no answers to why Inglewood police killed them outside a Manchester Boulevard 7-11 store sometime before 4 a.m., February 21.
In early September, a year and a half after having been pepper-sprayed by a Santa Monica police officer, a man was awarded $1.1 million by a court, plus attorney fees, to be paid by the city. He was apparently singled out by police for being in a park after curfew, while other residents, who weren’t black, continued to charge their electric cars – as he recharged his car. The scars will stay with him and his family for life.
As long as I can remember, there’s been an argument over policing in the black community. Do police patrol more intensely because the crime rate is higher there, or do higher crime statistics result from heightened levels of policing?
A sober New York Times headline last weekend described what many assume has been a dramatic change in fortune for Black Lives Matter, the de facto civil rights movement of the day. “Black Lives Matter Was Gaining Ground,” it read. “Then a Sniper Opened Fire.”
Texas law enforcement officials may or may not have murdered Sandra Bland in her jail cell earlier this month, three days after her arrest during a routine traffic stop. At a Monday press conference, Waller County District Attorney Elton Mathis – who is charged with investigating Ms. Bland’s death – implicitly blamed the victim: “Sandra Bland was very combative. It was not a model traffic stop. It was not a model person that was stopped.”
We’ve heard this before, especially in response to police killings of African Americans. Michael Brown, killed by Ferguson police, was “no angel.” Freddie Gray, killed in Baltimore, was “no saint.” Former altar boy Patrick Dorismond, killed by the NYPD, was “no altar boy.” Oscar Grant, Trayvon Martin and countless others have been similarly described, as though this is a mitigating – or worse,
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