The judge overseeing the trial of four Minneapolis cops accused of killing black security guard George Floyd has placed a gag order on the defendants and their lawyers after pieces of somewhat exculpatory evidence were released. Citing the risk of “tainting a potential jury pool” and “impair[ing] all parties’ right […]
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Amy Cooper, the white woman who called the police in May and falsely accused a Black man of threatening her life after he asked her to leash her dog in Central Park, faces charges for the incident, prosecutors announced Monday. Cooper, 41, will be charged with filing a false report, […]
Cops Off Campus And Out of Our Unions! By David Klassen, Spectre Journal. July 6, 2020 Cops Off Campus And Out of Our Unions!2020-07-062020-07-06https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/police-face-off-with-protesters-from-sprectre-journal-e1594059121457.jpg200px200px Above photo: Police face off with protesters from Spectre Journal. I am writing this from NYC’s occupied City Hall listening to an abolitionist speech along with a larger […]
Police departments that get more equipment from the military kill more civilians than departments that get less military gear. That’s the finding from research on a federal program that has operated since 1997 that I have helped conduct as a scholar of police militarization. That finding was recently confirmed and […]
The probe was launched after postal police investigators discovered photos of nude minors and other “horrifying” content, depicting actual sexual violence where the victims were often infants. Italian police have broken up a sizeable child pornography ring in which sexual photographs and videos of children, including newborns, were shared via […]
Riot police were showered with bottles, bricks and other projectiles while trying to break up an illegal rave in west London on Friday night. At least seven officers were injured during the hostilities. The police were called to the scene in White City following reports of a number of people […]
The pro-Trump internet is abuzz about left-wing “antifa”activists’ nefarious plans for the Gettysburg National Cemetery on July 4—even if no one can quite agree on what’s actually going to happen. One theory holds that antifa will burn American flags at the Civil War graveyard, while another centers on a nonexistent […]
Daily Beast: Two Wilson, Oklahoma cops have been charged with second-degree murder after using a stun gun nearly 50 times on a naked, semi-conscious man on the Fourth of July weekend last year. Bystanders called the police when they saw Jared Lakey, 28, running down the street, naked and screaming. […]
Three people were murdered in New York overnight into Thursday, in line with a grim trend that saw police responding to the highest number of shootings in over 20 years last month amid a leftist push to divest from the force. The murders took place in the space of 20 […]
Loonietunes now scapegoated by Shitstain Daily Beast: President Donald Trump has said that he regrets following advice from son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner, according to an Axios report. Trump has reportedly decided to stick with his own instincts and reject any policy he disagrees with, including those aimed at […]
Three protesters have been arrested by the Tempe Police Department after footage filmed by a drone was used as evidence of their crime, signaling a new frontier in how the world is policed. The activists took to the streets to organize a ‘chalk walk’, which involves writing on the pavement […]
__________Daily BeastInside the New Push to Expose America’s White Supremacist Cops by Kelly Weill Fourteen years ago, the FBI documented racist infiltration of law enforcement in America. Now members of Congress want the full story. In 2006, the Federal Bureau of Investigation knew America’s police forces had a white-supremacist problem. […]
Cops lie, not just often, but with the bravado and confidence of people who know they will neither be caught nor held accountable. And plenty of those lies are made against people working for crap wages and no benefits in the service industry. In recent weeks, New York City officers […]
US Killer Cops Mastered ‘Fascist Israel’s Technique Proudly Used On Palestinians’ June 28, 2020 US Killer Cops Mastered ‘Fascist Israel’s Technique Proudly Used On Palestinians’2020-06-282020-06-28https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/israel.png200px200px Above photo: Israeli border police arrest a Palestinian protester near the West Bank city of Ramallah, December 22, 2017 © Reuters / Goran Tomasevic. Pink Floyd […]
“Thank goodness there’s an uprising,” Waters told RT’s ‘Going Underground’ on Tuesday, referring to the wave of protests and riots sweeping the US since the killing of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis last month. “It’s about time.” The kneeling chokehold that killed Floyd was described by Waters as “an Israeli […]
Three officers with North Carolina’s Wilmington Police Department were recently fired from the force after the individuals were recorded engaging in threatening and racially-charged conversations that touched on the desire to kill Black residents. The disturbing commentary, which was recorded via an accidental activation of a patrol car camera, was […]
Three police officers in North Carolina have lost their jobs after accidentally recording their own highly inflammatory conversations, in which they are heard discussing “slaughtering n****rs” and calling for a new Civil War. Officers Kevin Piner, James Gilmore, and Jessie Moore were fired from the Wilmington Police Department on Wednesday, […]
Pink Floyd founder Roger Waters sees eerie similarities in Israel’s treatment of Palestinians and US police departments’ treatment of their own citizens. The legendary singer told RT it’s “about time” the world called out both. “Thank goodness there’s an uprising,” Waters told RT’s ‘Going Underground’ on Tuesday, referring to the […]
The Seattle Police Department posted a video compilation of the police response to a deadly shooting early Saturday morning at the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) aka the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP). The video contains security camera footage that captures the sound of gunfire, police entering CHAZ in a […]
During South Africa’s transition from apartheid to democracy, I was directly involved in the transformation of the police force to a police service. Today, as the United States is confronted with the need for changes in police culture and behavior, perhaps some of the lessons learned in those tumultuous times may […]
NYPD Cops Encouraged To ‘Strike’ On July 4 By Craig McCarthy and Tina Moore, NY Post. June 19, 2020 NYPD Cops Encouraged To ‘Strike’ On July 42020-06-192020-06-19https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/nypd-e1592602540309.jpg200px200px Above photo: NYPD officers. Getty Images. Give the city its “independence.” A labor strike is brewing in the NYPD. A pair of flyers making the […]
Fox News political analyst Gianno Caldwell on Thursday pushed the false narrative that restaurant employees have intentionally poisoned police officers, likely referencing an infamous claim that was debunked by the New York Police Department. During an appearance on Fox News’ Your World with Neil Cavuto, Caldwell, who is Black, was […]
The Seattle district known as CHOP — for “Captiol Hill Organized Protest” — and initially known as CHAZ, has been occupied by demonstrators for over a week.The protesters pushed the police out of their precinct station a week ago. Democrats around the country are pushing to defund police departments following […]
In a new interview with The New York Times, Jon Stewart insisted that he does not miss hosting The Daily Show. “If you’re asking, Do you wish you had a show? Sometimes I do,” he said. “But not the one that I had. The one that I had is in […]