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The People’s Coalition for Police Accountability Invites You to –
STOP POLICE BRUTALITY AND MURDERS: A REPORT TO THE COMMUNITY
The 10-Year Old People’s Coalition for Police Accountability (PCPA) is holding a public forum to report to the community on the status of the struggle against police brutality in Prince George’s County and to make plans to [...]
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Sign a petition protesting the violent and illegal treatment of journalists at the Republican National Convention.
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The question being asked, even by some Republican National Convention officials, is “What are the St. Paul police thinking?” While McCain and Palin have been holding one spotlight, police in riot gear have tear gassed crowds within the “protest” lot, far from the convention center and under permit, have jailed more than 300 people in [...]
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This is an interesting policy question: Should cities be allowed to insure themselves against claims of police brutality? The City of St. Paul agreed to host the Republican National Convention on the condition that Republican Party arranged “to buy insurance covering up to $10 million in damages and unlimited legal costs for law enforcement [...]
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Even those who have been watching the vanishing freedoms in America were amazed at the level of brutal, violent, criminal, inhuman police action during the RNC.
The reason has been revealed:
http://kaaltv.com/article/stories/S565925.shtml?cat=10151
Before the convention, $10 million dollars worth of illegal, violent police brutality was actually ORDERED and paid for in advance by the convention itself. They actually [...]
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Several activist groups held an outdoor press conference in St. Paul to decry police brutality against peaceful protesters. more
Riot Police shoot cannons at protesters
Teargassing teenagers
RNC Police Arrest Amy Goodman at protest\
RNC Audience With The Mayor
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Written by Art Carden for independent.org,
Here are a few thoughts on the economics of apparent police brutality and media portrayals thereof
1. Judiciously edited video can be deceptive.
2. As stories like these develop, I predict that they will be cast as struggles between the state and individual rights as recognized under the first amendment.
3. [...]
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Posted in Brutality on September 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Unrest is brewing at Berkeley-based KPFA radio after
a dispute between management and a volunteer ended in the staffer, who is
pregnant, being forcibly removed by police.
Nadra Foster, an unpaid producer at KPFA, was injured by Berkeley police
officers after refusing to leave the station on Aug. 20. Police say that
at least six officers used force on Foster [...]
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