Posts Tagged ‘Police Violence’
Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Ohio police chief calls for termination of cop who killed Andre Hill
Chief Thomas Quinlan of the Ohio Police Dept. released a video statement on Thursday (Dec. 24) informing viewers that Officer Adam Coy will be charged with critical misconduct and should be terminated.
Read MoreSpecial News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Body Cam Footage Of Cop Murdering Unarmed Andre Hill Has Been Released; How He Tried To Cover It Up
The body cam footage from the Columbus police officer who murdered Andre’ Hill was released. It shows Hill while he was walking out of a garage with only a cell phone in his hand.
Read MoreHow Black Parents Survived 2020
As this difficult year of racial reckoning and a global pandemic draws to a close, six African American families share how they have coped.
Read MoreVisible Men: Black Fathers Talk About Losing Sons to Police Brutality
Raising Black men in America is still done by Black father figures inspite of the stereotype of the absent father.
Read MoreSpecial News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Federal Investigators Join Probe Into Casey Goodson Shooting Death
The Department of Justice announced Tuesday it is joining the investigation into the death of 23-year-old Casey Goodson, a Black man who was shot and killed by law enforcement in Columbus, Ohio, on December 4th, 2020.
Read MoreSpecial News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Black Lives Matter OKC Demands Justice After Teen Suspect Shot, Killed By OCPD
Black Lives Matter is demanding justice for 15-year-old, Stavian Rodriguez, shot and killed by six OKC police officers. “It is appalling…”
Read MoreSpecial News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – How a bloody night of bullets and brutality quashed a young protest movement
Protesters, inspired by BLM, in their struggle against police brutality (#EndSARS) were massacred at the eight-lane Lekki toll gate in Lagos, Nigeria.
Read MoreSpecial News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – North Carolina police pepper spray, arrest peaceful protesters going to the polls
A peaceful rally and march to the polls in Graham, N.C. on Saturday, Oct. 31, 2020 was cut short after pepper-spray was used multiple times by the police in the presence of children and elderly citizens. Several people were arrested.
Read MoreSpecial News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – ‘The police are making us look bad’: Protesters march through Wauwatosa
Protesters marched again through the streets of Wauwatosa calling for justice for 17-year-old Alvin Cole and demanding change in the Wauwatosa Police Department and their community.
Read MoreSpecial News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – What We Know About the Death of Walter Wallace Jr. in Philadelphia
On Monday afternoon, two Philadelphia police officers fatally shot Walter Wallace Jr., a 27-year-old Black man who was armed with a knife. In the nights that followed, protesters clashed with officers in the streets, and city officials imposed a curfew to try to curb the unrest.
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