Posts Tagged ‘police’
New Philly police contract brings more of the same and little reform
The new police contract is done. It was written by a panel of arbitrators, not by the city, which is strange, since the people who pay contracts are usually the ones who write them. But that’s not the way it works with police. In truth, nothing works normally with police. The city wanted all…
Read More Black people organized and got the Facebook cops fired. That story must be told
I’ve long known that some of the Philadelphia police officers who were fired after their racist or bigoted Facebook comments were exposed by the 2019 Plainview Project were trying to get their jobs back through arbitration. That’s why reading about it in The Inquirer was no surprise. I was, however, taken aback that the full story of…
Read More Lawsuit: Cops killed Ronald Greene and lied to his mother about the cause of death
There’s a reason the Constitution says Congress shall make no law limiting the freedom of the press. If not for a free press, we’d be unaware of all the evil that’s done with taxpayers money, in taxpayers names, and on taxpayers time. In Louisiana, for example, taxpayers paid State troopers who tasered, kicked, dragged and…
Read More Police said Daunte Wright’s death was an accident. I don’t believe that’s true.
I don’t care that Kim Potter, the police officer who shot and killed Daunte Wright during a car stop, has resigned. I don’t care that Police Chief Tim Gannon stepped down either. I’m still enraged, because wright didn’t have to die. It happened Sunday in BrooklynCenter, Minnesota—a suburb just 10 miles from the Minneapolis courthouse where former officer Derek Chauvin…
Read More After 11 are shot in 24 hours, Philly’s homicides aren’t someone else’s problem. They’re ours
Eleven people were shot in less than 24 hours in Philly this weekend, and if we continue at this pace, we’ll have 600 homicides in Philadelphia by year’s end. That’s 600 funerals, 600 grieving families, 600 futures erased—600 lives lost in a cycle that is vicious in more ways than one. This is not someone…
Read More Police officers’ ‘restraint’ on Capitol Hill is no victory for a racist America
When I saw the CNN headline about the heroism of police during the Capitol insurrection, I did a double-take because I wasn’t sure I’d read it correctly. “New radio and video footage from Capitol riot shows a coordinated attack and officers’ restraint,” it said. In that moment, the anger I felt was visceral. While I…
Read More A Philly cop is under investigation for attending the pre-riot Trump rally. We’re not surprised
A Philadelphia Police detective is under investigation after allegedly attending the rally before the riot. And guess what. We’re not surprised. If the Inquirer is right, and Philadelphia Detective Jennifer Gugger allegedly attended that rally, I gotta wonder what she was thinking. Because Gugger’s job in the police department’s recruitment unit was to investigate social…
Read More The charges in the Breonna Taylor case don’t add up
Former Louisville Police Officer Brett Hankison was charged with three counts of first-degree wanton endangerment in the incident that killed Breonna Taylor. But no one, including Hankison, has been charged with killing her. That is not justice, and in my view, there should be no peace. Hankison faces up to five years on each count…
Read More Krasner talks exclusively to Solomon Jones after controversial dismissals
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner forced 31 people out at the District Attorney’s office, prompting criticism from some and celebration from others. In an exclusive interview with Praise 107.9 FM host and Daily News columnist Solomon Jones, Krasner explained his motivations. “We did it because this is an office in need of culture change,” Krasner…
Read More Solomon launches GoFundMe campaign for #Justice
Blacks are 2.5 times more likely than whites to be shot and killed by police. In recent years, those statistics have roared into focus through the deaths of boys like Tamir Rice, women like Rekia Boyd, and men like Philando Castille. Their images fill the screens of our computers, televisions and phones, but we never learn what happens to…
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