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Given media coverage of the killing last summer of Eric Garner in New York, New York and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, coupled with coverage of the killing last week of Walter Scott in North Charleston, South Carolina and Eric Harris in Tulsa, Oklahoma, you could be forgiven the impression that White cops think they… Read more.
It was only a matter of time: Two police officers were shot and seriously injured early Thursday near the Ferguson, Mo., police headquarters, an incident that occurred amid ongoing protests in the city. Just hours earlier, the Ferguson police chief had announced his resignation, a decision that came in the wake of a blistering report from… Read more.
Unsurprisingly, calls for the arrest of Officer Darren Wilson only became more restive yesterday, after lawyers for Michael’s parents released results of an autopsy they commissioned, which show that Wilson shot him at least six times. More importantly, here’s the truly poignant way these lawyers used CNN’s coverage of their release to reinforce his mother’s… Read more.
Let me assert from the outset that police brutality is all too common in the United States. For example, according to the National Police Misconduct Statistics and Reporting Project, from April 2009 to June 2010, there were 5,986 reports of police misconduct; 382 fatalities linked to police misconduct; and $347.5 million spent in settlements and… Read more.
