NYPD Police Leader “We Are Now A Wartime Police Department and Will Act Accordingly”
Mayor de Blasio with the notion in the NYPD that they are engaged in a war against their superiors or law-abiding citizens
Tagged Eric Garner
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If Protesters Are Responsible For Officers’ Deaths, So Then Are The Tea Party
Are the protesters responsible for the death of the officers? If yes, then the Tea Party is responsible for the death of the two Las Vegas officers.
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NYPD Disrespects Mayor De Blasio By Booing And Heckling Him During Graduation Ceremony
Two days after hundreds of NYPD police officers turned their backs on New York Mayor Bill de Blasio as he spoke at Officer Rafael Ramos’ funeral, the mayor was heckled and booed at the NYPD graduation ceremony in New York Monday.
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President Obama Explains That Discussion Regarding Race Issues Is Healthy For The Nation
During a comprehensive interview with NPR’s Steve Inskeep that was released Monday, President Obama spoke at length on a number of hot-button topics and issues that have come to the forefront in 2014. One of the issues he touched on was race relations in this country.
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#BlackLivesMatter And #NYPDLivesMatter Are Not Mutually Exclusive
As human beings we all have value, and Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos did not deserve to die. At a fundamental level, #BlackLivesMatter and #NYPDLivesMatter mean the same thing.
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Black Cops Feel Threatened By And Fear Other (White) Officers
Black New York City police officers admitted they are regularly racially profiled by white officers and worse
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Fox Affiliate Deceptively Edits Protest Footage To Show Protesters Chanting “Kill A Cop”
Baltimore news station Fox45 ran a story Sunday night attacking protests against police brutality and racial disparity by running deceptively edited footage to suggest protesters were chanting “kill a cop” during a demonstration.
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CNN’s Use Of #AskACop On Twitter For Police News Special Totally Backfires On Network
Prior to the airing of the special, CNN decided to crowdsource questions from Twitter using the hashtag #AskACop. As one might expect, CNN did not get the type of responses that they hoped for.
Tea Party Nation Says #Whitelivesmatter
According to Judson Phillips, because a black youth shot at a police officer, and the black youth killed, #whitelivesmatter
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In Wake Of Eric Garner Decision, NYPD Tweets Out “Motivational” Speech Justifying Murder
On Monday morning. the New York Police Department’s Midtown South precinct sent out a tweet showing Jack Nicholson’s character from the movie A Few Good Men giving a speech justifying an order he gave to give a Marine a ‘Code Red’ that ended up killing him.
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Lynching Obama
Republicans just can’t get over the fact that they can no longer get together and lynch the black guy they found in the white neighborhood
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Why The World Can’t Breathe
In the heated space between two murders, both committed by police officers who were later given a free pass by a grand jury, there were other similar murders, beatings, etc., that were once again recorded by We The People and then circulated for the rest of the world to see.
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Attorney General Eric Holder Announces Federal Restrictions And Bans On Racial Profiling
The Department of Justice announced Monday that Attorney General Eric Holder has unveiled stricter policies governing federal law enforcement when it comes to the use of racial profiling.
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MSNBC Contributor Calls Out Media For Not Covering Obama’s Initiatives In Wake Of Ferguson
During Monday morning’s episode of Morning Joe, MSNBC contributor Dorian Warren called out the media for not giving proper coverage or discussion over the initiatives laid out by President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder in the wake of high-profile killings by police.
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Conservatives Have A Double Standard When It Comes To Use Of Police Force On Blacks
In the past few weeks, there has been an uprising of awareness of police brutality all over the U.S. yet it appears that conservatives are countering the protest with the justification that if you fail to submit to the police, you deserve what you get…that is until their own are brutalized.
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Friday Fox Follies In Black And White
If the last 2 weeks of reporting and punditry tell us anything, Fox “News” is willing write off one side of the racial divide for generations; the same way the Republicans have written off the Latinos that Fox “News” is hypocritically trying to attract.
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St. Louis Motorist Hits Protesters With Minivan Then Threatens Them With Handgun
During a protest in St. Louis’ Central West End neighborhood Wednesday night, a minivan-driving man drove through a crowd of protesters, hitting four people. After he was stopped, he waved a gun at them.
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Republican Congressman Peter King Says Eric Garner Is To Blame For His Own Death
On the same day a grand jury decided to not indict a NYPD police officer in the death of Staten Island man Eric Garner, Rep. Peter King (R-NY) decided to show his complete lack of empathy or compassion by blaming Garner for his own death
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Unbelievable! New York Cop Who Killed Eric Garner With Chokehold Will Not Be Indicted
NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo will not be indicted on any charges relating to the death of Staten Island man Eric Garner. Garner’s death was the result of a chokehold used by Pantaleo during an arrest.
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‘Guaranteed Conflict Theory’ As An Explanation For Why The Police Keep Killing Black People
The broken windows policing tactic is a major reason why we see conflict between the police & African Americans. In fact, it guarantees death.