January 30, 2023 The Police Folklore That Helped Kill Tyre Nichols David D. Kirkpatrick The New Yorker A 1992 study claims that officers who show weakness are more likely to be killed. Law-enforcement culture has never recovered.
January 28, 2023 ‘We’re Tired of Being Beaten’ Gloria Oladipo The Guardian Protesters across US call for justice for Tyre Nichols
December 7, 2022 Global Left Midweek – Mass Action in World Centers Portside Many causes, multiple protests and strikes, one world
December 4, 2022 Black Twitter’s Expected Demise Would Make It Harder To Publicize Police Brutality and Discuss Racism Deion Scott Hawkins The Conversation A world without Black Twitter is a world void of robust, rapid and authentic information sharing on police brutality within the Black community.
April 7, 2022 What Noir Films Taught Us About Police Joe George The Progressive Magazine Before copaganda became widely televised in shows like “Law & Order,” police were more accurately portrayed as abusers of power.
March 16, 2022 Twice in 54 Years, Sf Cops Beat Charges of Racist Violence Mark Norton 48 Hills The alarming parallels between a 1968 trial and the Terrance Stangel case
March 12, 2022 What Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s New Bill Means for People of Color Rosa Sanchez Harper's Bazaar Far too often, no-knock warrants and raids have severe and deadly consequences, resulting in property damage, trauma, and death.
October 19, 2021 Media Bits and Bytes - October 19, 2021 Portside Maria Ressa, Dave Chappelle, the strike that inspired Squid Game, and recommended media stocks
film August 31, 2021 Candyman Comes For the Privileged Anthony Breznican Vanity Fair In director and cowriter Nia DaCosta’s new Candyman, the body count mostly includes those who repeat the practices of systemic cruelty and racism that led to his lynching and other hateful deaths.
July 12, 2021 UN Report Calls for Reparations for Victims of Systemic Racist Police Violence Majorie Cohn Truthout “Dismantle structures and systems designed and shaped by enslavement, colonialism and successive racially discriminatory policies and systems.”
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