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Issa Rae, star of “Insecure” went on Instagram recently and shared a group of organizations that she is endorsing in response to the demonstrations and protests on police brutality to her 2.8 million followers. She included Black Lives Matter. Regional Bail Funds, Defund the LAPD, BLD PWR, National Police Accountability Project, ACLU and Black Table […]
Jay Z’s Made In America festival has been postponed until Labor Day 2021. The festival’s website says the reason for cancelling this year’s event is because of parallel pandemics: COVID-19, systemic racism and police brutality. Festival officials are stressing the health and wellbeing of the artists and attendees be considered and will be working with […]
Everything is for sale, well a non working old school video camera made by Sony from nearly 30 years ago is going up for auction. In the days before cell phone footage caught crimes on video, there was it’s grandfather. A Sony camcorder, that caught the vicious beating of the late Rodney King from the LAPD […]
District Attorney Paul Howard of Fulton County has issued warrants for the arrest of the police officers involved in the shooting death of Rayshard Brooks. A felony murder charge has been put on Garrett Rolfe, the individual who actually fired the shots that fatally wounded Brooks. He is also being charged with 11 other instances […]
Have you seen July 64′? It is a documentary of the race riots in Rochester, NY from July 24 – 26 1964. What set off the riots is the arrest of then 19 year old Randy Manigault for public intoxication. He was at a block party on Nassau in the seventh ward. News of his […]
On Sunday, June 14, Beyoncé sent an open letter to Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, demanding that charges be pressed against the officers who were involved with the shooting death of Breonna Taylor. Breonna Taylor was a victim of a narcotics raid gone wrong when officers executing a no-knock warrant fired shots that ended up […]
An executive order by Governor Andrew Cuomo will order police and local governments to “reinvent” law enforcement techniques in New York. The New York State Police Reform and Reinvention Collaborative ordinance states that local governments across the state have to develop a plan that “reinvents and modernizes police strategies and programs” before April 1 2021. […]
A bronze confederate statue named “Appomattox” was removed from the city of Old Alexandria in Virginia on Tuesday by a team hired by the owners, The Sisters of the Confederacy. The news was broken by Alexandria’s mayor Justin Wilson, as he tweeted images from the worksite. Although the Sisters of the Confederacy could not be […]
The mayor of Minneapolis and the family of George Floyd is calling the arrest of the former Minneapolis police officer that killed George Floyd on video. There were several angles of the video that show George Floyd was never resisting arrest and it also shows that there were three officers holding him down with the […]
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