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Mothers of Chicago Police Torture Victims Demand the Return of their Disappeared Sons
CHICAGO – For an entire Saturday afternoon on February 23, 2013, the Mothers of Chicago Police torture victims addressed an audience of 200 people at the University of Chicago. Speakers took to the podium one after another to communicate the … Continue reading
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Tagged Area 2, Area 3, Armanda Shackleford, blue wall of silence, Burge, CAARPR, Chicago police, code of silence, Dirty War, Forced Confession, Frank Chapman, Gerald Reed, harassment, Independent Police Review Authority, intimidation, IPRA, Jeff Baker, Johnny Plumber, Marcus Wiggins, Mark Clements, Mother's day, Mothers, Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, Nick Escamilla, Peoples Hearing on Police Crimes, police accountability, Police Brutality, Police corruption, Police Crime, prison-industrial complex, Torture
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Does Stop-and-Frisk Create More Crime?
Stop-and-frisk proponents argue that the aggressive police tactic is necessary for “crime prevention.” But rather than deterring crime, do aggressive policing tactics like stop-and-frisk paradoxically generate crime by creating the conditions in which “criminals” … Continue reading
New NYPD Tapes Reveal Racism behind Stop-and-Frisk
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s concentrated regime of stop-and-frisk received international attention this week as a landmark class-action federal civil rights lawsuit challenging the draconian police tactic got underway. One of the more important pieces of evidence revealed in … Continue reading
One year on, 1 a.m. Vigil Marks the Struggle for Justice, Celebrates the Life of Rekia Boyd
CHICAGO—Undeterred by subfreezing temperatures, 25 family members, friends, and activists held a candlelight vigil at 1 a.m. this morning to commemorate the life of twenty-two year old Rekia Boyd and demand that her murderer be brought to justice. The Nite … Continue reading
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Tagged Antonio Cross, Antonio Cross Chicago, Chicago Crime, Chicago News, Chicago police, Chicago Police Department, Chicago Police Involved Shootings, Chicago Shootings, Chicago Street Violence, Independent Police Review Authority, IPRA, Michael Chandler, police accountability, Police Brutality, Police Crime, Rekia Boyd, Rekia Boyd Chicago, Rekia Boyd Shot
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NYPD Detectives Who Killed Kimani Gray Have Rap Sheets
The two NYPD plainclothes detectives who shot and killed Kimani Gray in Brooklyn on March 9 have a documented history of lawsuits related to the use of extrajudicial violence and other civil rights abuses, according to reports by several news … Continue reading
The NYPD Declares Martial Law in Brooklyn
On the heels of three nights of protests over the police slaying of 16 year old Kimani Gray, the NYPD has turned the East Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn into a State of Exception, claiming emergency powers to suspend the constitutional … Continue reading
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Tagged Brooklyn, East Flatbush, Kimani Gray, NYPD, police accountability, Police Brutality, Police Crime, Shantel Davis
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Silencing the Chicago “Code of Silence”
CHICAGO—In an unanticipated move, the City of Chicago took tangible legal steps in federal court this week to silence the Chicago Police Department’s “code of silence.” The city announced it had struck a macabre deal with Karolina Obrycka, a bartender … Continue reading
Video is the New Reality: One Year after Flint Farmer was Senselessly Killed by Chicago Police
CHICAGO, Illinois – There was a time when civilian witness and police accounts represented the most definitive source of information when trying to assess right versus wrong, particularly with something as emotionally charged as a homicide. Those times are gone. … Continue reading
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Tagged Chicago police, Emmett Farmer, Flint Farmer, police accountability, Police Brutality, video evidence
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