We losing our humanity/ They fire at our family/ Our flow be the remedy/ Cuz water got no enemy/ Na I ain’t commit no felony/ What’s that ish you tellin’ me/ You don’t know the man i plan to be/ Gotta go home to my family
—we know
hate-bullets halt
prayer, unleash grief/
death
Getting police and community on board with reforms is crucial for success.
The murders by cop go on – the latest, Lymond Moses, was asleep in his car – prompting furious calls for police reform from many weary of the carnage.
The first time I noticed my hands
trembling, I was still a young man,
just returned from a war…
Impunity means that even at the height of nationwide scrutiny and outrage, police officers in Kenosha still felt entitled to shoot Jacob Blake, an unarmed black man, seven times in the back while his children watched, paralyzing him from the waist down.
We now have the grossly under-reported spectacle of unnamed, unbadged, unaccountable hoodlums in camo combat gear and unmarked vans wildly tear-gassing and pepper-balling engaged citizens, city officials, medics, media…
In a new study that manages to be both shocking and grimly unsurprising, researchers found police in 20 U.S. cities fail to meet even the most basic international human rights standards governing lethal force.
Police forces across the United States have committed widespread and egregious human rights violations in response to largely peaceful assemblies protesting systemic racism and police violence, including the killing of Black people.
Police unions and minorities should be allies in the battle to reduce economic inequality.
America’s forever wars in distant lands have now come home.
Amid the outpouring of outrage over George Floyd’s death are glimpses of solidarity and hope.
Say yes, sir when the officers stop you
for the fourteenth time, looking
for somebody
Justice for George Floyd. These cops are out of control, y’all.