Police State

Marc Lamont Hill Responds to Trump: "We Can't Arrest Our Way Out of a Problem of State Violence"

Marc Lamont Hill, journalist, distinguished professor of African American studies at Morehouse College, responds to calls by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to expand the controversial police tactic of stop-and-frisk in order

September 26, 2016
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Activism Works: Charlotte Police Release Dashboard & Body Camera Video in Keith Lamont Scott Killing

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Charlotte-Mecklenburg police have yielded to days of protests and released two videos of the fatal police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott. One video is from a police dashboard camera, the other from

September 26, 2016
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Connecticut State Troopers Unwittingly Film Themselves Fabricating Charges Against Protester

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Did Connecticut state troopers unwittingly record themselves fabricating charges against a protester? That’s what a new lawsuit filed by the ACLU of Connecticut claims. On September 11, 2015, Connecticut resident

September 22, 2016
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Protests Call for Arrest of Tulsa Police Officer Betty Shelby for Fatal Shooting of Terence Crutcher

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We go to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where the community is reeling over video footage showing a white police officer shooting and killing 40-year-old African American Terence Crutcher while his hands were in the

September 22, 2016
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State of Emergency: Charlotte NAACP & Protesters Demand Police Release Video of Keith Scott Shooting

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North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory has declared a state of emergency in the city of Charlotte, where protests continued for a second night after Tuesday’s fatal police shooting of 43-year-old African American

September 22, 2016
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Protests Erupt over Police Killings of Terence Crutcher & Keith Lamont Scott in Tulsa & Charlotte

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We host a roundtable on police killings of black men. Protests escalated in Charlotte, North Carolina, overnight when hundreds took to the street and blocked Interstate 85 to express outrage over the

September 21, 2016
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