tags: police brutality

2015

May

2015 May 7
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Baltimore

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Baltimore Is Just the Beginning • 2015 May 6 • Time

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2015 May 7
Cracked Predicting the Revolution

It’s kind of bizarre that Facebook has juxtaposed posts by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Cracked.com, both of whom are predicting chronic civil unrest in the U.S. #algorithms

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2015 May 26
Thabo Sefolosha and the NYPD

An NBA Player Is Missing the Playoffs Because the NYPD Broke His Leg—Why the Sports-Media Silence? • The Nation • 2015 May 22

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July

2015 Jul 31
police officer charged with murder in the death of Samuel DuBose

When I indict a murderer, I don’t pull punches. …

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2016

July

2016 Jul 8
It Was an Isolated Incident

Justice Sonia Sotomayor's dissent on Utah v. Strieff, a Fourth Amendment case about police searches:

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2016 Jul 8
The Slippery Slope of Extrajudicial Killing

Yes, it's possible that blowing up Michael Xavier Johnson with a robot-delivered bomb saved lives, but at the same time, this is basically one more step down the road of relying on extrajudicial killing to maintain law and order instead of allowing the criminal justice system to work as intended. In addition to robotic bombers, it's not difficult to imagine LE relying on heavily armed drones to take out suspects. And if it's a human rights violation for the POTUS to take out suspected terrorists with drones without due process, surely it's also a violation of civil rights if local and federal LE do the same thing.

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2016 Jul 21
They Will Shoot You Anyway

Jesus fucking Christ. At least Charles Kinsey isn't dead. And it is Florida. But what the fuck?

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