police brutality
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Top 16 Euphemisms US Headline Writers Used for Police Beating the Shit Out of People
7 June 2020 — FAIR Neil deMause What NBC (5/31/20) described as “more aggressive tactics” included firing paint ball rounds at residents as they stood on their porches. Continue reading
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Video: A Chilling effect on the right to protest
27 July 2017 — The Canary Watch the shocking film that shows how low the police will go to protect the interests of big business A new film released by the Network for Police Monitoring (Netpol) reveals the lengths to which the police are prepared to go in preventing protest; and how far they are Continue reading
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Twitter campaign backfires on New York Police Department By Sandy English
On Tuesday, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) attempted a public relations campaign on the popular microblogging platform, Twitter. @NYPDNews, the Twitter account of the department, asked its followers, “Do you have a photo w/ a member of the NYPD? Tweet us & tag it #myNYPD.” The PR effort proved a catastrophic failure. Within… Continue reading
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Coming Home to Roost: American Militarism, War Culture, and Police Brutality By Colin Jenkins
An extensive 2006 report by the United Nations Human Rights Committee concluded that, in the United States, the “War on Terror” has “created a generalized climate of impunity for law enforcement officers, and contributed to the erosion of what few accountability mechanisms exist for civilian control over law enforcement agencies. As a result, police brutality… Continue reading
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