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• Reminder: Candlelit vigil to remember Ian Tomlinson

  
  Harpymarx — Authority: 535
  Eight months after Ian Tomlinson’s death, his family invite you to a CANDLELIT VIGIL to remember Ian Tomlinson As well as Ian’s family, speakers include: Samantha Rigg David – Sean Rigg Justice & Change Campaign Deborah Coles – INQUEST John McDonnell MP Tuesday 1st December from 6pm – ...
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• Former Memphis Police Department Officer Pleads Guilty to Using Excessive Force And Causing Bodily Injury

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 451
  Isaac White, formerly an officer with the Memphis Police Department, has pleaded guilty in federal court in Memphis, Tenn., to using excessive force and causing bodily injury. White faces up to 10 years in prison for the civil rights violation. White, 29, admitted in court that on Nov. 1, 2008, he struck a handcuffed ...
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• Sean Bell’s Widow & Al Sharpton Lead Vigil On 3rd Anniversary

  
  NewsOne — Authority: 633
  From NYDailyNews.com : The widow of police shooting victimSean Bell, marking the third anniversary of his death, stood sadly on the Queens street where her late fiancee drew his last breath. Nicole Paultre-Bell, surrounded by about three dozen relatives, friends and supporters, renewed her call for federal charges ...
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• G20 Police Chief Accused of Misleading MPs About Undercovers

  
  Jason N. Parkinson: NUJ & IFJ Video & Print Journalist — Authority: 116
  S tills, video, print (c) 2009 Jason N. Parkinson . All Rights Reserved. Guardian: G20 police chief accused of misleading MPs about undercover mission video by Jason N. Parkinson All material on this blog - stills, video and print - is (c) Jason N. Parkinson 2009. All Rights Reserved. ...
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• Wake-up call for the cops..??!!

  
  Harpymarx — Authority: 535
  So British policing needs a wake-up call …says Denis O’Connor Laughably ACPO argues: The Association of Chief Police Officers welcomed the report, but argued it was already taking steps to balance facilitating protest and balancing human rights. Its lead on uniformed operations, Chief Constable Meredydd ...
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• China Police Officers Jailed for Juvenile Death in Custody

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 637
  Four police officers from Shaanxi Province have received jail terms ranging from one year to two and a half years for the death of 19-year-old Xu Gengrong. Xu died after he was interrogated for his role in the rape and death of schoolmate Peng Lina. His family members have decried the officers’ sentences as too ...
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• Atlanta sued for Eagle raid

  
  Box Turtle Bulletin — Authority: 660
  On September 10, Atlanta police stormed the Eagle, a gay bar, treating all patrons like criminals, disregarding their civil rights, and subjecting them to homophobic language. They seemed to presume that illegal sex and drugs would be found which would justify this extreme action on their part. There was no sex. ...
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• UC Berkeley to Investigate Police Brutality in Protests

  
  VivirLatino — Authority: 589
  And speaking of the upheaval in the University of California system, Democracy Now! has some really important updates about the protests that happened after the UC board voted to increase tuition rates by over 30%. Forty students were arrested Friday night after campus police entered Wheeler Hall, which the ...
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• Press statement: Union of Peoples’ Lawyers in Mindanao on Maguindanao massacre

  
  Mindanaoan | Living in Mindanao | Blog Sa Usa Ka Taga Mindanao — Authority: 129
  The Union of Peoples’ Lawyers in Mindanao (UPLM) condemns in the strongest possible terms the brutal murder of scores of civilians in Datu Abdullah Sangki town in Maguindanaoin, a bloody start for the 2010 elections. Among the hapless victims were UPLM treasurer Concepcion “Connie” Brizuela and UPLM member ...
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• Man Window Slammed By Cop

  
  Hip Hop Honey Online Magazine — Authority: 160
  The Bay Area Rapid Transit system has found itself in the midst of another incident after video surfaced showing a BART officer slamming a man into a glass barrier at a transit station, shattering the glass. Though the man was acting unruly, this latest incident of police aggression by a BART officer brings into ...
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• Queens Teen Fatally Shot 11 Times By NYPD

  
  NewsOne — Authority: 633
  NEW YORK — A teenager killed in a confrontation with New York City police over the weekend was shot 11 times, the medical examiner’s office said Sunday. Dashawn Vasconcellos, 18, died of gunshot wounds to the torso, neck and extremities, medical examiner spokeswoman Ellen Borakove said. Police fired a total of 14 ...
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• Paris Hilton Passes On Her Boob Job

  
  Backseat Cuddler — Authority: 587
  I guess Paris Hilton is happy with her small chest.  She was ready to get a boob job, but then changed her mind at the last minute.  Paris’ mom, Kathy Hilton spilled the beans,“At one point she was like ‘I wanna do this and that, I’m so flat!’ but then all of a sudden she [...]
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• The Trouble with Tasers

  
  ePluribus Media — Authority: 439
  I first became interested in this subject back in 2007. At that time, a University of Florida student (Andrew Meyer) had attended a speech by Senator John Kerry and asked him questions afterwards. The student had asked Senator Kerry a series of questions that Kerry was perfectly ready, willing and able to answer, ...
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• Tune In At 10 ET

  
  The Battle of New York :: A Tri-State Area Hockey Blog — Authority: 433
  That’s right. Instead of doing the same boring thing which our team does enough of trying to emulate Bill Murray’s infamous Phil character in Groundhog Day, we’ll be voicing our displeasure on a special 15 minute NYHR edition. Sound off the alarms because that’s what we’re doing. Tonight’s 3-2 home loss ...
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• Chancellor Birgeneau must be held accountable for violence against students

  
  yaman's amateur ramblings — Authority: 471
  Please forward to UC faculty, grad students, and friendsDear UC Faculty and Friends,There are few words that can describe the horror of police violence against students on UC Berkeley’s campus Friday November 20. Chancellor Birgeneau’s dispatches to the campus community, most recently those today pre-empting a ...
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• Tasers killed hundreds. Stop using them

  
  Psyche, Science, and Society — Authority: 473
  An oped in the Tennessean laws out one of the arguments against Taser use, they’ve kill hundreds of people. These supposed “non-lethal” weapons are inherently brutal and traumatic and should, therefore, as Feuer argues, be used only as a last resort. they brutalize society; their supposed non-lethality ...
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• power to the children

  
  n e u f n e u f — Authority: 444
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• Throwdown – Deathless

  
  Braingell Radio — Authority: 152
  Big time bruisers THROWDOWN are back with their latest release, Deathless , and like always, they are back with something to say.  It’s almost like we have a whole new THROWDOWN here, where in their latter discography ( Venom & Tears era) they carry a heavy Pantera and Sepultura influence.  While ...
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• Enhanced video of San Jose Police arrest shows university student was crying, asking for his glasses — not resisting officers

  
  NIKKEI VIEW: The Asian American Blog — Authority: 125
  The San Jose Mercury News, which broke the story several weeks ago of a video that shows San Jose police may have used unnecessary force when officers arrested a San Jose State University student, is now under a darkening cloud of questions about the batons and Taser used to subdue Phuong Ho.The Mercury News today ...
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• Video of press conference regarding call to DOJ

  
  Weblog of Dawud Walid — Authority: 135
  Complete video of news conference 2 days ago calling for the DOJ Civil Right Division to launch an investigation into the shooting of Imam Luqman Abdullah.Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality, Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah
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