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Dr. Jeff Hood was so close to the gunfire in downtown Dallas, he held his gut thinking he might have been hit. Someone had taken aim at two police officers next to him. “Active shooter, active shooter,” he screamed to the crowd as the rally he helped organize against deadly shootings by police disintegrated into violence against…
Judge Robin Camp berated a sexual assault victim during a trial. Photo: Tetra Images/Getty Images Canadian Federal Court Justice Robin Camp, who was investigated for making insensitive comments during a sexual-assault trial, would like to keep his job, please. Camp oversaw the trial of Alexander Scott Wagar, who was…
We all have the power to channel our anger and frustration into action. We must use our voices to contact the politicians and legislators in our districts and demand social and judicial changes. To contact your Congressman or woman click here. To voice protest for Alton Sterling, click here. To voice protest for Philando Castile,…
On Wednesday night’s episode of Comedy Central’s The Nightly Show, host Larry Wilmore devoted a segment to talking about the death of Alton Sterling, a man police shot to death in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, this week. “Thank God for fucking cellphones,” Wilmore said. “Because we would never even hear about incidents like this this otherwise. In…
A Guide to Taking Action on Police Reform In the wake of the murders of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, I wanted to know how I, as a white person, can help without speaking over people of color. I was directed to a very helpful list of actions by Ijeoma Oluo, who graciously enumerated ways…
OVER the past several years, we have borne witness to grainy videos of what “protect and serve” looks like for black lives — Tamir Rice, Walter Scott, Eric Garner, Kajieme Powell, to name a few. I don’t think any of us could have imagined how tiny cameras would allow us to see, time and again,…
Philando Castile, Sandra Bland, Tamir Rice; Michael Brown, Alton Sterling, Tarika Wilson It’s becoming increasingly difficult to fight the sense that, for the rest of my life, I’ll be writing about black Americans who’ve been killed, in one way or another, by the police. Every generation likes to believe that they’ve made progress that distinguishes…
The family of a Brooklyn man shot dead by an off-duty cop during a road-rage incident demanded Tuesday that the officer be charged in the killing — or they’ll “hunt him down” themselves. Zoe Dempsey, the 23-year-old niece of slain dad Delrawn Small, said, “We will seek our justice’’ — and get violent if necessary….
A second cellphone video obtained by The Daily Beast depicting white Baton Rouge police officers Blane Salamoni and Howie Lake II shooting and killing Alton Sterling, a black man, is raising questions about the police department’s claims that the officers shot Sterling because he threatened them with a gun. In the video, recorded by Abdullah…
Another day, another horrific video of police killing a black man, another round of viral outrage. As emotions brewed following the Tuesday police killing of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, La., devastating video emerged from Minnesota showing the moments after a cop fatally shot Philando Castile, 32, during a traffic stop. Philando Castile was killed…