Lawyer Says Vallejo Man Killed By Off-Duty Richmond Officer Was Shot in Back of the Head
Yet one more racist (off-duty) police officer with a license to kill. https://www.kqed.org/news/11787705/lawyer-says-vallejo-man-killed-by-off-duty-richmond-officer-was-shot-in-back-of-the-head ... Read more
RIP Fred Hampton: a Black Visionary Assassinated by the FBI
“Fifty years ago this week, a squad of Chicago police officers killed Black Panther leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark in a pre-dawn raid on the apartment where they were sleeping. In the decades since, a revealing body of evidence has emerged showing that Hampton was the victim of a political assassination, sanctioned at the highest levels of the U.S. government.” https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/12/04/rip-fred-hampton-a-black-visionary-assassinated-by-the-fbi ... Read more
‘Community Control Over Police Should Be a Democratic Right’
Consistent with the larger implementation of corporate control over the state (one of the textbook definitions of fascism), the police have been federalized and militarized. This apparatus needs to be dismantled, and communities should have control and review powers over the police, who should return to their original purpose, “To serve and protect.” https://fair.org/home/community-control-over-police-should-be-a-democratic-right ... Read more
Two Colorado cops who fatally shot Black teen in the back, will not face charges
Racists with badges and a license to kill are exonerated by Colorado Springs, CO grand jury: https://thegrio.com/2019/11/14/colorado-cops-shot-black-teen-not-face-charges ... Read more