Five Memphis, Tenn., police officers were fired 10 days after civil rights activists say they brutalized a [...]
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Shame on leaders who failed to denounce FOP chief’s racist comment
I’m accustomed to Fraternal Order of Police president John McNesby denouncing black protesters and white allies who [...]
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Remove the Rizzo statue from public property
Because he oversaw and maintained police brutality in the black and brown communities in which I grew [...]
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Bigotry must not cloud Hartnett investigation
As darkness draped the streets of West Philadelphia, Edward Archer was caught on video walking up to [...]
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Blacks and police far apart on key issues
FOR JIM KENNEY, the first white mayor to helm the majority-non-white city of Philadelphia in 16 years, [...]
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Baltimore riots speak loudly on police abuse
The Baltimore Police Department has completed its investigation into the April 12 death of Freddie Gray, the [...]
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A daughters light shines through the dark times
THE LAST FEW WEEKS have been trying times for me as a father. The debate on police [...]
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After Ferguson, I worry about my son
DARREN WILSON'S resignation from the Ferguson, Mo., police department didn't soothe the pain I felt in the [...]
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Eric Garner grand jury decision: Not again
Not again. Not another unarmed man killed by those whose salaries we pay. Not another death swept aside [...]
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Chief names cop who shot Michael Brown
FERGUSON POLICE CHIEF Thomas Jackson identified the officer who shot and killed unarmed black teenager Michael Brown last Saturday [...]
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Eric Garner: The new Rodney King
IN 1991, a large black man was beaten by four white police officers. The videotaped attack appeared to be [...]
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Eric Garner died in a government drug war
On Thursday, July 17, drug-related violence claimed the life of a husband and father on a New [...]
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