An officer on the front lines of the Minneapolis protests has been put on two weeks paid leave after he failed to fire pepper balls at a local news crew. The Internal Affairs Committee for the Minneapolis Police Department confirmed that Percy Cutor had decided not to fire on reporters even though they had identified themselves as press and were wearing safety vests.
Experts, researchers and people with experience on both sides of the law discussed the evolution of mass incarceration at a conference titled ‘From the Color Line to the Carceral State: Prisons, Policing and Surveillance in the 20th and 21st centuries’…
Walter Scott, gunned down by Officer Michael Slager in South Carolina, over a non-fuctioning brake light. It seems that everywhere you look, cops are using brutal and fatal force against citizens for the smallest incidents. Something needs to be done…