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• Former Memphis Police Department Officer Pleads Guilty to Using Excessive Force And Causing Bodily Injury

  
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  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

  
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  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

  
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  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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• China Police Officers Jailed for Juvenile Death in Custody

  
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  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

  
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  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

  
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  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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• Queens Teen Fatally Shot 11 Times By NYPD

  
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  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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• The Trouble with Tasers

  
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  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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• Chancellor Birgeneau must be held accountable for violence against students

  
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  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 ...
  5 days ago

• Tasers killed hundreds. Stop using them

  
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  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

  
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• Enhanced video of San Jose Police arrest shows university student was crying, asking for his glasses — not resisting officers

  
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  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

  
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  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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• Shocking Report Of Excessive Force By Arkansas Police

  
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  This cat is lucky he doesn’t live in Ozark, Arkansas. According to CBS News, police officers there recently tasered a ten-year-old girl . Oh, what’s this? “Ozark police were called to the home Nov. 11 after the girl’s mother couldn’t get the child to take a shower.” I guess that makes sense then.
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• 10 Year Old Tasered in Arkansas

  
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  When I was young I said I would never have children. Part of that, a large part, was because I had already seen so much viciousness in the world. Today as a mother of six I often feel guilty for having had children and bringing them into this shithole of a world. This story doesn’t do anything to change that. ...
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• Police Taser 10-Year-Old Girl In Arkansas

  
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  The mayor of a small Arkansas town wants an independent investigation on whether it was appropriate for a police officer to use a Taser on an unruly 10-year-old girl who kicked him in the groin. Mayor Vernon McDaniel says he wants Arkansas State Police or the FBI to look into whether the use of the Taser was proper. ...
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• Ant-Eviction Campaign participates in a debate on Police Brutality

  
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  When? 18 November at 21h00 on Cape Town TV Posted in Archives, Athlone, Mainstream and Other News Tagged: Pamela Beukes, police brutality, POPCRU
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• VIDEO: Seattle Police Beat And Taser Man For 5 Minutes

  
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  From The Seattle Times Seattle police have launched an internal investigation into the arrest in June of a suspect by three officers who used their fists, batons, a flashlight and a Taser to subdue the man at the department’s Georgetown evidence unit. The arrest, which was captured on a police surveillance video, ...
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• VIDEO: Seattle Police Beat And Taser Man For 5 Minutes

  
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  From The Seattle Times Seattle police have launched an internal investigation into the arrest in June of a suspect by three officers who used their fists, batons, a flashlight and a Taser to subdue the man at the department’s Georgetown evidence unit. The arrest, which was captured on a police surveillance video, ...
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• Rap Doesnt Kill People... Governments Do

  
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  Hip-hop fans knew what was coming in the wake of Derrion Alberts death in Chicago this past September. Here was the ultimate urban tragedy: a sixteen-year-old kid beaten to death in a blighted, neglected community. Its close to certain that the media wouldnt have caused such a stir had his death not been caught on ...
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