A black teenager killed by police outside of Chicago over the weekend was shot twice in the back after attempting to steal an illegal handgun, officials and local media said on Monday. Continue reading UPDATED: #JustusHowell, 17, shot in the back in Zion, Illinois | #BlackLivesMatter
Brutality, increasingly, reigns king in America. The month of March 2015 was the police state’s most prolific ever in terms of output. In fact, it was so prolific that in one month, our police forces have managed to kill more people than individual countries have since the turn of last century. Continue reading March 2015’s #PoliceBrutality output in one photo
This is a compilation of cases I saw in my news feed this week. It is by no means a complete list of events around the country. I will try my best to generate a post like this each week. Continue reading The Week in #Racism and #PoliceBrutality, 3/18-3/25 | #BlackLivesMatter
Michael Brown spent his last day with his friend Dorian Johnson. Here’s what Johnson saw. – Vox
By Ezra Klein
November 25, 2014Earlier today, I wrote that Officer Darren Wilson’s newly released account of his altercation with Michael Brown was unbelievable. Which isn’t to say it was wrong. It was just hard to believe that events played out exactly as Wilson described.
But the story Wilson tells makes much more sense if you also read it alongside Dorian Johnson’s testimony — and use the two accounts to balance each other out. Continue reading Michael Brown: A collection of the best reporting to date
By Kyle Wagner
Last Wednesday, we launched an impossibly ambitious project: cataloguing every police-involved shooting in America over the last three years. After one week, we’re further along than we could have imagined. Continue reading Deadspin #Police-#Shooting Database Update: We’re Still Going
A Gawker article caught my eye this weekend. It is entitled: “What I’ve Learned from Two Years Collecting Data on Police Killings.” In it, I expected to learn about different state and national agencies and watchdog groups that do just that. Much to my dismay, no one really does. That is, with the exception of two or three reporters who’ve recently started, no one really does. Continue reading Tracking Police-involved Killings in the US
Police forces around the country have equipped themselves with surplus military equipment our DoD doesn’t need.
This is what Ferguson, Missouri looks like tonight.
The Washington Post and MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart made a very moving personal statement in today’s edition of Up With Steve Kornacki, in the wake of yet another case of curious police-involved shooting of a young black male in Ferguson, Missouri. Continue reading Jonathan Capehart’s Moving Statement on MSNBC’s “Up with Steve Kornacki”