An NYPD whistle blower, Officer Pedro Serrano, presented damning evidence in a class-action lawsuit against stop-and-frisk, an NYPD policy the plaintiffs argue violates the civil rights of minorities who are overwhelmingly targeted. In a conversation secretly recorded by Serrano, Deputy Inspector Christopher McCormach can be heard telling him to stop-and-frisk “male blacks 14 to 21” […]
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(warning: graphic images) The United States may be finished dropping bombs on Iraq, but Iraqi bodies will be dealing with the consequences for generations to come in the form of birth defects, mysterious illnesses and skyrocketing cancer rates. Al Jazeera’s Dahr Jamail reports that contamination from U.S. weapons, particularly Depleted Uranium (DU) munitions, has led […]
As we mourn the tenth anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq, the establishment media elite seem to agree that the Iraq war was a mistake. But that is about as far as they will go in their criticism. Meanwhile, the mainstream rarely reports on the suffering of the Iraqi people or the U.S.-led pillaging […]
The worst is not yet behind the young woman who was raped by two Steubenville High football players in the football obsessed town of Steubenville, Ohio. CBS News reports that just one day after her rapists, Trent Mays and Ma’Lik Richmond, were convicted, two teens have been arrested for threatening to kill her. Surprisingly, her female […]
Independent journalist Ryan Devereaux interviewed 39-year-old Tishana King, the only known eyewitness to the police killing of 16-year-old Kimani Gray in East Flatbush last weekend, revealing new and disturbing details about Gray’s last moments of life.
Touré Neblett, host of MSNBC’s The Cycle, wrote an excellent piece about Kimani Gray, the 16-year-old Brooklyn teen shot dead by the NYPD last weekend for adjusting his waistband “suspiciously”. Police say they were forced to shoot because Gray pointed a gun at them, a claim witnesses dispute. Protests have since erupted every night in Gray’s […]
Jonylah Watkins, just 6-months-old, was shot on Monday, March 11, on Chicago’s South Side as her dad changed her diaper in the front passenger’s seat of their minivan.
The right-wing New York Post has beat the New York Times and other local outlets in reporting on the Brooklyn protest currently happening against the police killing of Kimani Gray. Judging by the Post’s report, it sounds the apocalypse is unfolding in Brooklyn.
Activists are reporting over social media that at least a hundred people (I heard one activist being interviewed over the livestream explain there were 250 people) gathered for a vigil turned protest against the weekend police killing of 16-year-old Kimani Gray in the East Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn tonight. Gray was shot 11 times by […]
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