Around 500 armed demonstrators wearing all-black uniforms marched with the “Not F****** Around Coalition” Saturday in Louisville, Kentucky, drawing hundreds of onlookers and rival...
ATLANTA – Below is a statement from Andrea Young, executive director of the ACLU of Georgia, on the curfew and militarization of law enforcement.
Georgians...
The Day After by Kai EL’ Zabar Executive Editor Thousands all over the country from New York, to Chicago, Washington to Berkley young people protested with signage to express their fear and disappointment in the new President elect of the United States of America. The peaceful protests Wednesday night, though calm were fuel by […]
*Police departments nationally scrambled furiously in the aftermath of the chokehold death of Eric Garner and the non-indictment of the officer that applied the hold to publicly declare that they do not use the chokehold. They waved and cited inter-department regulation after regulation to prove that they bar the use of the hold, don’t teach […]
*Solange joined the Ferguson movement in her own way. She put the release of her new sneaker collection on hold out of respect for the Black Friday protests. Protesters refused to participate in Black Friday as a result of the grand jury decision not to indict officer Darren Wilson, who shot and killed black teenager […]
*(Via The Detroit News) – President Barack Obama said Tuesday the anger and frustration of minority communities in dealing with law enforcement are no excuse for the violence and destruction of property that erupted in Missouri the night before. Obama spoke in Chicago a day after a grand jury declined to indict a white police […]
*(Via Newsy) – Protests in Ferguson, Missouri this week presented Russia with the perfect opportunity to critique the U.S. and its local law enforcement. “Police have used tear gas on a crowd of rioters who were throwing rocks.” Russian news outlets have been following the story out of Ferguson just as closely as U.S. outlets. (Video via RT) Several writers […]
