On Saturday night, an officer of the Special Forces of the Greek Police killed a young 15-year old school student, Alexandros Grigoropoulos, in Exarchia in the centre of Athens. This is the modern “democratic” manner in which a police officer answered the usual anti-police slogans that a small group of ordinary and completely unarmed school [...]
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The Greek police kill school student, city in an uproar
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Police Kill Soccer Fan In Brazil
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Moms Of Sons Killed By Police Organizing For Change
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Numerous civil rights organizations across the United States agree that abuse of power by law enforcement and judicial departments has seriously violated the freedom and rights of its citizens.
Cases where law enforcement authorities allegedly violated victims’ civil rights increased by 25% from 2001 to 2007 according to statistics from the U.S. Department of [...]
Police Kill Man During Domestic Disturbance Call
Posted in Deaths on November 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Police say they shot and killed a 24-year-old man after he fired at squad cars responding to a domestic disturbance in the Ozaukee County community of Mequon.
Officers were called to an affluent neighborhood Sunday about 4:30 p.m. after shots were fired inside a home.
Police say the 24-year-old came outside and began firing at squad cars, [...]
Police fatally shoot man in Everett
Posted in Deaths on November 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Bear Whalen may never know exactly what happened at his house early Saturday morning, but he wants to get as close to the truth as he can.
Three Everett police officers responding to a report of a burglary shot and killed Whalen’s roommate at his home in the 2400 block of 23rd Street.
The slain man owned [...]
Transgender Victim of Police Beating Died Before Case Went ot Trial (Memphis, TN)
Posted in Deaths, Rulings on November 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A transwoman whose videotaped beating at the hands of police helped spark a movement to fight police brutality in Memphis was found shot to death Nov. 9.
A Nov. 11 article at the Memphis Commercial Appeal said that Duanna Johnson, 43, suffered a gunshot wound to the head and died at the site of the shooting [...]
92 Yr Old Womans’ “Polce Related” Death Still Unsolved (Atlanta, GA)
Posted in Deaths, Rulings on November 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Two years later, the Kathryn Johnston case is back where it started —- with the Atlanta Police Department.
The November 2006 killing of the 92-year-old woman by a rogue drug squad in her own home has been solved. Early on, federal investigators echoed suspicions of the community that such corruption was widespread. But in closing the [...]
Unarmed Man Shot To Death By Police (Culver City, CA)
Posted in Deaths on November 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A Culver City police officer shot to death an unarmed man who had his hand in his waistband during a traffic stop Saturday, authorities said.
The man was pronounced dead at the scene in the Venice area of Los Angeles shortly after midnight, said Deputy Johnie Jones of the county Sheriff’s Department, which is investigating the [...]
New York Plain Clothes Police Brutally Kill 2 Trinidadian (Brooklyn, NY)
Posted in Deaths on November 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Teenager Shot and Killed By Police (Jacksonville, FL.)
Posted in Deaths on November 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Breon Pittman, 19, died after being shot at The Regents Apartments on Caravan Circle. He’d been stopped by police who were responding to a report of shots being fired at the Southside complex. An officer felt a gun in Pittman’s waistband and another officer shot him after he struggled, broke away and turned toward the [...]
