Tag: police violence
Ahmaud Arbery’s killers convicted of federal hate crime and kidnapping charges
“Although we welcome the jury’s verdict, the only acceptable outcome in this matter would have been Mr. Arbery returning safely to his loved ones two years ago."
Former police sergeant resentenced for using excessive force against handcuffed woman
“The security video of George’s actions that day in 2013, is sickening.”
Federal correctional officers plead guilty to bribery and smuggling charges
Each is currently scheduled to be sentenced on May 17, and each faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison.
Alabama cop arrested on drug and domestic violence charges
The drug charge is a felony and the domestic violence charge is a misdemeanor.
South Carolina police officer arrested after fatally shooting unarmed man
Dollard was charged with voluntary manslaughter and booked into the Georgetown County Detention Center.
Colorado Springs agrees to pay nearly $3M settlement after fatal police...
“Nothing in this nightmare could ever make what happened to my son ok or justifiable. There is no amount of money that will bring him back."
An Afro-Indigenous perspective on policing
In his new book, Kyle T. Mays argues that the violence of policing has always been intimately tied to U.S. democracy.
America, a nation teetering on the edge
The kind of question we the people of America should be asking ourselves, “Can we get along? Why is it that we can’t get along?”
Former prison lieutenant sentenced to prison for failing to stop assault...
“We condemn in the strongest possible terms Burks’ behavior and blatant violation of his sworn oath to serve.”
Former Louisville cop sentenced to prison for using excessive force
Recorded on police body cam video striking a kneeling protester in the head with a riot stick, a former Kentucky police officer...
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Trump defies court order, deports hundreds under 1798 wartime law in unprecedented legal overreach
Despite a federal judge’s order to halt deportations, the Trump administration expelled over 200 Venezuelans and a Brown University doctor, sparking outrage over its use of an 18th-century law and open defiance of the judiciary.
You’re wrong Elon. Social Security’s not the ‘Ponzi Scheme’–The ‘unrealized gains’– taxloophole is…
“At current interest and tax rates, it is far cheaper to borrow against the value of one's shares than to sell them and pay taxes on the gains.”
ProPublica’s embrace of large language models echoes what I’ve been saying all along
This distinction between “AI” as a vague, catch-all term and the specific type of advanced pattern-finding model actually at play here matters immensely.
The Trump Inversion Scam makes the world great again – except for America and abused...
Trumpism in a nutshell: batter average citizens to buttress concentrated crony capitalist power. DOGE will end up not as positive, creative destruction, simply self-destructive destruction.
UK carbon emissions reach lowest level since 1872
Coal use plummets to levels not seen since the 1600s.