Police Brutality

The year he died microbes commandeered streets hopscotching borders oblivious to need ears closed to incoming cries for help health vaccines justice piled up her belongings and exited dragging them down Main Street everyone united by the commonality of ignorance and fear of breathing breath moving out in wider circles breathing breathing…

At one point he was covered by 10 people all at once — Wednesday, 22 March 2023 By: TB Obwoge Irvo Otieno (pronounced EYE-voh 1st name, Oh-tea-in-oh last name) was a 28 year old Kenyan man, who was smothered to death by several police officers while in a psychiatric hospital in Virginia. …

Krakow Anti-Abortion Ban Protest on 18th of March 2023 — A bit of Police Brutality Never Hurt Nobody — I come back to you all with news of another protest in Krakow, Poland, that took place on Saturday 18th of March. Background Facts As you may know, Poland is one of the few European countries where abortion is only semi-legal. That is, available only under certain conditions, namely: if the woman’s…

A former federal prosecutor’s memoir says we need to redefine what’s acceptable for them — More than 30 years ago, Los Angeles police officers beat Rodney King so savagely that the brutality sparked five days of rioting. Similarly shocking actions keep occurring across America. When they do, the police are seldom brought to justice as Derek Chauvin was when a Minneapolis jury found him guilty…

How Do We Stop Police Violence in Real Time? — You’re driving down the street and you see a male police officer tackle a late middle age Black woman and commence to punching her in the head and face multiple times. Do you: A. Film the incident? B. Yell for the officer to stop? C. Physically try to stop the…

It’s not always black and white, that’s what — When we hear in the news that a Black person was beaten or killed by the police, we usually assume it was a white officer. However, that’s not always the situation. There was a Black officer charged in the killing of George Floyd in 2020, Alex Kueng. What’s ironic is…