Police Beat a 15-Year-Old Girl
While she’s in police custody. Apparently she was being “lippy.” Video is below — trigger warnings apply.
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Whoa.
This Delonas cartoon appeared in the New York Post today. (h/t) Barack Obama did not actually write the stimulus bill. But I don’t think that I’m at all incorrect in asserting that it is the general public perception that he did. I didn’t even know for sure until I looked it up, and I read [...]
...read moreTransgender Woman Beaten By Police and Threatened With Murder in Honduras
From Amnesty International UK comes the story of a woman, transgender sex worker and HIV/AIDS campaigner (unnamed for her own safety) in Honduras, who was assaulted by police officers and threatened with death if she spoke out about the attack: Four police officers in a police car approached the transgender woman, who has asked Amnesty [...]
...read moreJustice, Justice You Shall Pursue
A guest post by Rebecca of City of Ladies Peace and hello. The Feministe crew have generously invited me to guest-post here about the Israel-Gaza conflict. I’ll spare you the biography and just say as background that I’m a blue-state Reform Jew with an Israeli-born mother who’s about ready to disown me (not literally) because [...]
...read moreDisrupting Bloomberg
Dissent has been bubbling up more and more frequently here in the cold, snow-blown streets of New York. The other day, when it was announced that Wall Street was using its bailout funds to hand out record bonuses to its employees, I started hearing murmurs of discontent and talk of tarring and feathering stock brokers [...]
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Arrest Made in Oscar Grant Murder
Johannes Mehserle, the BART Police officer who was filmed fatally shooting the unarmed Oscar Grant (left) execution-style while he was lying face-down on the ground, has been arrested on suspicion of murder. The BART police officer who fatally shot an unarmed man on an Oakland train platform and then refused to explain his actions to [...]
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Execution style
On New Year’s morning, the San Francisco BART police–yes, transit cops–dragged a bunch of young men off a train, including Oscar Grant. An officer then proceeded to execute Grant of them with a gunshot through the back, while he was restrained and lying face-down on the ground. I think you should watch the videos, if [...]
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