#policereform

buzzkill@diaspora.schoenf.de

Police Kill More Whites (46 percent) than Blacks (24 percent)

Police Violence is Directed Against Working People and Youth of all Racial and Ethnic Backgrounds

"Data collected by the Washington Post records 6,214 police killings in the period between January 2, 2015 and April 14, 2021. The victims are overwhelmingly male (95 percent) and predominately white (46 percent). Blacks make up the second largest group (24 percent), followed by Hispanics (17 percent), Asians (1.6 percent), Native Americans (1.4 percent) and all others (0.7 percent). The average age of a police violence victim is 37. In more than one in five cases the person who was killed was exhibiting signs of mental illness."

Why is no one listening to the poor when they have been complaining about police brutality for generations? Why is no one listening to the truth, and only lies?

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buzzkill@diaspora.schoenf.de

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dredmorbius@joindiaspora.com

On the Media takes on the cops

No Justice, No Peace

In the midst of a historic week of protests, the national conversation about police is quickly transforming. This week, On the Media looks at the language used here and abroad to describe the "civil unrest" in America. Then, we explore how decades of criminal justice policy decisions brought us to this boiling point. Plus, are human beings, against all odds, actually pretty decent?

  1. Karen Attiah [@KarenAttiah], The Washington Post Global Opinions Editor, on how our media would cover American police brutality protests if they were happening abroad. Listen.

  2. Elizabeth Hinton [@elizabhinton], historian at Yale University, on the historical roots of American law enforcement. Listen.

  3. Rutger Bregman [@rcbregman], author of Humankind: A Hopeful History, on what our policies would like if we believed in the decency of people. Listen.

Full episode (mp3).

Excellent, as per usual.


Bootnote: You might recall Bregman from his 2019 Davos appearance demanding billionaires pay their taxes or his unaired Fox News confrontation with propagandist Tucker Carlson.

#BLM #BlackLivesMatter #Police #PoliceReform #JusticeForAll #OnTheMedia #RutgerBergman #ElizabethHinton #KarenAttiah #podcasts

fergie@pluspora.com

A lawyer is tweeting videos of police using force at protests. There are more than 350

"On May 30, T. Greg Doucette, a criminal defense lawyer from Durham, N.C., tweeted out a compilation of 10 videos he’d seen of police using force against protesters in the wake of the death of George Floyd. He had no idea the degree to which things would snowball from there."

"As Doucette’s Twitter thread went viral, a flood of videos began pouring in from cities and towns around the country showing police shoving, kicking, pepper-spraying and otherwise using force against peaceful protesters. (One video Doucette shared involved Times reporter Molly Hennessy-Fiske being hit with rubber bullets while covering a peaceful protest in Minneapolis.) As of Saturday, Doucette’s thread has surpassed 350 clips and he finds himself struggling to keep up."

#PoliceBrutality #PoliceViolence #PoliceReform