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Freddie Gray dies a week after being injured during arrest
By Natalie Sherman, Chris Kaltenbach, and Colin Campbell Freddie Gray, a Baltimore man injured during an arrest by Baltimore police last week, died Sunday at Shock Trauma, prompting protests by city...
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Tulsa sheriff: FBI clears dept. in Eric Harris shooting
By Sasha Goldstein The FBI cleared an Oklahoma sheriff’s deputy of violating a suspect’s civil rights in the case of a Tulsa County reserve deputy fatally shooting an unarmed man after the volunteer...
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Freddie Gray death: Mayor vows to find answers
The autopsy hasn’t yielded many answers in Freddie Gray’s death — in fact, it’s prompted more questions — but Baltimore’s mayor pledged Tuesday to find out how the 25-year-old died from a spinal cord...
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Freddie Gray’s spinal injury suggests ‘forceful trauma,’ doctors say
By Scott Dance Spinal injuries such as those that led to Freddie Gray’s death while in police custody require “significant force” akin to the impact from a car accident and can fatally impair the...
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A Judge Just Let A Cop Walk After A Deadly Shooting. Legal Experts Say The...
By Nicole Flatow http://www.huffingtonpost.com Late Monday, a Cook County judge acquitted Chicago police officer Dante Servin of several homicide-related charges for the fatal shooting of an unarmed...
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Former North Charleston, S.C., Police Officer Indicted On Murder Charges
By Eyder Peralta http://www.copblock.org A former North Charleston, S.C., police officer was indicted on murder charges in the killing of 50-year-old Walter Scott. According to Ninth Circuit Solicitor...
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How Many People Are Killed by Police? We’re Only Beginning to Find Out
By Leslie Savan Amazingly, although people are killed by police virtually every day in the United States, there is no government agency, no bureaucracy, and no database that counts them all. Nor is...
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By the numbers: US police kill more in days than other countries do in years
By Jamiles Lartey It’s rather difficult to compare data from different time periods, according to different methodologies, across different parts of the world, and still come to definitive conclusions....
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America’s war on Black girls: Why McKinney police violence isn’t about “one...
By Brittney Cooper In just over two months, we will commemorate the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, a natural disaster that ravaged communities along the Gulf Coast. This tragedy was made...
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When Black People Are Target Practice
By Chauncey DeVega In this age of police thuggery, it seems that almost every few days brings another video recorded incident of white-on-black police violence and excessive force. Last week a white...
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