Last Wednesday, August 14, six police officers in Philadelphia were wounded when the man they were trying to apprehend opened fire on them. Immediately following the shooting, a large crowd of African American people harassed the officers - charging them, throwing objects at them, yelling at them. Watching the video posted within the article on...
Read More“Do Not Resist,” an independent film about police militarization, aired on PBS on Monday, February 12, 2018.
While the film focused on the aftermath of the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO in 2014, it also covered various law enforcement agencies across the nation that were receiving military equipment from the...
Read MoreIn an article posted on The Real News Network, reporter Sharmini Peries interviews Stephanie Llanes, a lawyer for the Center for Constitutional Rights about documents obtained from the FBI showing that they have been spying on Black Lives Matter.
Llanes explains that the FBI is claiming that BLM has a tendency to be violent. She claims...
Read MoreScheduled to air nation-wide on HBO Nov.20 is the documentary “Baltimore Rising”. Directed by “The Wire” actress Sonja Sohn, the story focuses on the aftermath of the death of Freddie Gray. The trailor highlights the changes within the police force, the failure of the media to accurately cover the problems in the black...
Read MoreIn between the stories about the Las Vegas shooting and hurricanes incessantly beating the southern border, Black Lives Matter is still causing problems.
A recent FBI study has shown what many of us have known for a while now – The Ferguson Effect, aka “de-policing”, is directly related to an increase in crime. This...
Read MoreTwo different stories tonight, both questioning the conduct of police officers.
In the first, posted at www.slate.com, the writer opines that the reason there are so many killings by police is because they are trained to be afraid of the public. He says the “theory” is that officers must make high-pressure, last...
Read MoreIn a video posted on the Detroit News, Ki’Juan Anderson, an African-American police officer for and member of the Detroit Police Gang Intelligence Unit, talks about how difficult this past year has been with the war on cops and Black Lives Matter.
“We’re not denying, there have been mistakes on both sides all around the...
Read MoreThe Thin Blue Line flag – a national symbol of police support – has joined the list of symbols Antifa deems as “fascist.”
This past Saturday, August 19, a “free speech” rally was held in Boston in protest of the riots in Charlottesville, SC. Of course anti-protestors showed up, which included Black...
Read MoreIf you’re looking for a movie that might raise your blood pressure, you’ll want to check out “Whose Streets?”, a film documenting how the death of Michael Brown forced a community to come together and take action. The main purpose of the film is to show that the people who participated in the protests and riots following...
Read MorePunishment is finally being handed out to those who infringed on our first amendments rights. Many of remember when protestors prevented author Heather Mac Donald from speaking at the Claremont McKenna campus this past April. Their stated reasoning was that mac Donald was “fascist” and “racist.” Many of us were left...
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