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Jinette Jimenez and Anya Milberg
Cops Kill People in Psychiatric Crisis
04 Nov 2020
The Police Reform Organizing Project (PROP), a New York City-based policy analysis and advocacy organization, recently released a report
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Police “Reform” = Counterinsurgency
03 Nov 2020
Attempts to “reform” the police through body cameras, so-called “community” policing and other such measures “all presume the continued presence of police” in oppressed communities, said Dy
Sam Biddle
Twitter Surveillance Startup Targets Communities of Color for Cops
28 Oct 2020
Insiders say Dataminr’s “algorithmic” Twitter search involves human staffers perpetuating confirmation biases, searching specific neighborhoods, streets, and even housing complexes for crime.
BBC staff
Nigeria SARS Protests: Amnesty Warns of “Escalating Attacks”
21 Oct 2020
Protests mount against Africa’s most populous nation’s most feared police unit, the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS).
by Signatories from the Use of Force Community Working Group
A Public Letter to Mayor Lightfoot: A Call for Leadership
21 Oct 2020
The Chicago Police Department’s new use-of-force policy input process is a sham, designed only to create the illusion of community engagement.
Ali Winston
The NYPD Unleashes Its Most Brutal Cops On Protesters
21 Oct 2020
The police unit most likely to bust protesters’ heads is full of cops with long misconduct histories.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Protests in Minneapolis Disrupted by Orange-Shirted “Collaborators” with Cops
19 Oct 2020
A group calling themselves “violence interrupters” played a role in the October 7 arrest of 50 protesters demanding community control of police, said Jae Yates, of the Twin Cities
Interview by Alex N. Press
Why They Let Breonna Taylor’s Killer Go Free
14 Oct 2020
People in Louisville were in motion, but the politicians shy away from “the massive transformative changes that we demand.”
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Beware the Movement’s “Controlled Opposition”
12 Oct 2020
Shannon Jones, of Bronxites for NYPD Accountability, who was among 250 people arrested at a massive police assault on protesters, June 4, warns that some corporate foundation-funde
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Fight the Power: Resistance Radio at the Virtual GRC Summit
07 Oct 2020
The Grassroots Radio Virtual Summit is for anyone looking for ways to resist heightening repression and anyone who feels that grassroots radio is vital to their community, writes Ann Garrison.