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• Street Renamed for Sean Bell

  
  Strange Fruit — Authority: 133
  Great NYC now we have a permanent reminder of that serious miscarriage of justice....real cute. And the council members who protested the bill can kick rocks. This isnt even the least the city can do for that family. The City Council yesterday approved renaming a Queens street after police-slaying victim Sean ...
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• Refusal to release imam’s autopsy raise…

  
  Talk Islam — Authority: 494
  Refusal to release imam’s autopsy raises suspicions. The Wayne County medical examiner’s refusal to release its autopsy report on Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah is fueling concerns in the Muslim community about a possible cover-up of facts surrounding his death, a community leader said Monday. …. The county ...
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• Reid: Senate needs to have a Rodney King moment

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  Reid: Senate needs to have a Rodney King moment By Michael OBrien - 12/22/09 08:54 AM ET Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Tuesday the Senate needs to have a "Rodney King" moment in its healthcare debate. During a speech on the Senate floor this morning, Reid channeled King, the victim of a 1991 police ...
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• Climate Change Hero Fidel Castro Complains Of Police Brutality In Copenhagen

  
  Anorak News — Authority: 626
  IN Copenhagen, the climate change protest is joined by that master of human freedom fidel Castro. After Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Robert Mugabe and Sudan’s Nazis, here’s Fidel - he ofd the “dictatorial style of government and ruthless suppression of opposition”. Fidel makes a perfect Al Gorean: The Danish ...
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• National Briefing | Washington: Police Chief Is Critical of Detective Who Pulled Gun at Snowball Fight

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 900
  Cathy Lanier
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• Divided Council Renames Street After Sean Bell

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 900
  Council members who voted for the bill said that the renaming was a reminder of the steps taken after the shooting on what would have been Sean Bell’s wedding day.
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• Man Chokes To Death On Bag Of Weed After Being Tasered By Cops

  
  NewsOne — Authority: 576
  PANAMA CITY BEACH — Bay County deputies say a 23-year-old man who was shocked with a stun gun died after choking on a large bag of marijuana during an attempted arrest. According to The News Herald, Andrew Grande ran from deputies who responded to the scene of a reported physical disturbance early Friday morning. ...
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• WTF?? - Video: D.C. officer draws gun at snowball fight

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 160
  AP WASHINGTON – Washington, D.C., police are investigating after Internet videos showed a detective waving his gun during a mass snowball fight on a city street. Police said Monday they were looking into reports that the plainclothes officer pulled a gun after he and his personal car were hit by snowballs. ...
  2 days ago

• You Don’t Bring A Gun To A Snowball Fight!

  
  Fire Earth — Authority: 431
  More on the snow in the US and Europe, and a snowball fightDeranged police detective draws his gun during a mass snowball fight in downtown Washington DC.The following video is a weather news bulletin, but shows a few seconds of the incident:This video captured the entire incident:Related Links:Winter Officially ...
  2 days ago

• Of Guns and Snowball Fights: Cop Pulls Out Gun at Massive Snowball Fight

  
  Happy Nappy Head — Authority: 123
  You know, we all have bad days. Maybe the officer above (the black gentleman) just found out his wife was screwing the plumber, or worse. However, whatever made him act the damned fool at a good-natured snowball fight in Washington D.C. needs to be figured out before he returns to duty. I just want to know what ...
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• Politiks As Usual: In The News 12/21/09

  
  Politik Ditto — Authority: 435
  Police Investigate Cop Who Pulled Gun At Snowball Fight Health Care Bill Faces Key Senate Test Vote ; Laden With Pork Bill OReilly Talks Up New Political Tea Party Same-Sex Marriage Bill Signed In A Church Sexting A Part Of Some Teens Lives Book Questions Evangelical Influence In Sports ...
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• Black D.C. Cop Pulls Gun In A Snowball Fight

  
  NewsOne — Authority: 576
  From the Washington City Paper: According to an eyewitness, a D.C. Police detective (pictured above with gun) went nuts after kids pelted his Hummer with snowballs at 14th and U Streets NW this afternoon. The veteran detective got out of his car and eventually grabbed for his gun, displaying it to the crowd. He did ...
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• PROTESTS AND ARRESTS CONTINUE IN OCCUPIED EAST JERUSALEM ~~ REPORTS FROM THE SCENE

  
  Desertpeace — Authority: 541
  27 Demonstrators Arrested at Protest Against Eviction of Palestinians from East Jerusalem Neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah Israeli police arrested twenty-seven Palestinians and Israeli activists in Sheikh Jarrah on Friday, 18 December afternoon for refusing to end a rally against the eviction of Palestinian ...
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• PROTESTS AND ARRESTS CONTINUE IN OCCUPIED EAST JERUSALEM ~~ REPORT FROM THE SCENE

  
  Desertpeace — Authority: 541
  27 Demonstrators Arrested at Protest Against Eviction of Palestinians from East Jerusalem Neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah Israeli police arrested twenty-seven Palestinians and Israeli activists in Sheikh Jarrah on Friday, 18 December afternoon for refusing to end a rally against the eviction of Palestinian ...
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• Molly’sBlog 2009-12-19 11:31:00

  
  Anarchoblogs — Authority: 158
  CANADIAN POLITICS-TORONTO: OLYMPIC FLAMED DELAYED/ OLYMPIC SECURITY ASSAULTS REPORTERS: The Olympic flame continues its uneven progress across the country, and in Toronto it ran into a little more trouble than usual as protesters delayed and diverted the parade. Heres the story from the Toronto Star . ...
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• Democracy in the land of bacon

  
  the void — Authority: 414
  This is what happens when pigs get above themselves.  Police brutality at Copenhagen.
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• Bill James’ lastest unusual statement

  
  Box Turtle Bulletin — Authority: 697
  Bill James is the Mecklenburg County Commissioner who slurred the dead gay son of a fellow commissioner. In a follow up communication, James declared that North Caroline flaunts the US Supreme Court and refers to gay men “infesting” areas. From Q-Notes . James wrote: “Homosexual conduct is illegal in NC ...
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• (News) Police shooting victim Sean Bell due to have Queens street named after him

  
  Queens-HipHop.com — Authority: 138
  Via The NY Daily News Police shooting victim Sean Bell is due to get a Queens street named after him by the City Council next week, after a Council committee approved it Thursday. The proposed Sean Bell Way would be on a block of Liverpool St. where the unarmed Bell died in a hail of 50 police bullets as he ...
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• PA Police Described as “Feudal Warlords” in Death of Immigrant

  
  This Tumbleweed Life — Authority: 120
  From the Associated Press, via NPR: A Pennsylvania police chief charged with trying to cover up the fatal beating of a Mexican immigrant by white teenagers was named in a 2006 civil suit that made a startling claim: Borough police beat to death a Hispanic teenager, then hung him from the bars of his holding cell to ...
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• Obama Playing AGW Santa With Our Money (Updated)

  
  Hyscience — Authority: 533
  Obama flew to record-breaking cold in Copenhagen and just couldnt help himself. He couldnt leave without handing out $33 billion of American taxpayers money for "in climate reparations." However, the actual total costs to American taxpayers resulting from the agreement that is currently being negotiated would be ...
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