Law Forum : Black Lives Matter (movement): NYC - Chokehold Death of Eric Garner

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Structural Racism Against Blacks: Tamir Rice's Mother, Black Lives Matter Activist Call For Justice During UN Panel


The scant details police knew about Samaria Rice's son -- he was black, male and possibly carrying a handgun -- resulted in the 12-year-old boy's death at a Cleveland playground nearly a year ago, when he was fatally shot by a police officer. Rice shared the story of her son's death Tuesday in a room packed with social justice activists and global experts on racial injustice at the United Nations headquarters in New York City ...


http://www.ibtimes.com/structural-r...ther-black-lives-matter-activist-call-2167939

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Samaria Rice (center), mother of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old boy who was fatally shot by police in Cleveland in 2014. Aaron Josefczyk/Reuters



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Survey: Half of black millennials know of police abuse


... However, 22 percent of black millennials and 14 percent of Latino millennials said they or someone they knew were the victim of gun violence in the last year, compared with 8 percent of white millennials.

It's not surprising that young blacks and whites feel differently on these issues, given the different experiences the groups are reporting, said Jon Rogowski, an assistant political science professor at Washington University in St. Louis. For example, white millennials don't report having to explain themselves to police, while millennials of color report that officers stopped them simply to question them about what they were up to, he said ...



http://news.yahoo.com/half-black-millennials-know-victim-police-violence-082942190.html


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In this Sunday, Aug. 9, 2015, file photo, protesters march to mark the one-year anniversary of Michael Brown being shot and killed by Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

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Baltimore Buys Victims' Silence With Settlements For Police Misconduct

Victims are compensated, as long as they promise to never speak publicly about what happened to them




WASHINGTON -- On April 30, 2012, Ashley Overbey called the police because someone had broken into her Northeast Baltimore apartment while she was at work.

The responding officers were "very rude and unprofessional," Overbey, now 28, told The Huffington Post. She said one officer indicated she should expect to be robbed, given the location of her apartment. Overbey called the police department again to file a complaint about the officers, and two others arrived to take her report ...



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...4b2e4b0411d30703ca2?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592

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Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake (L), Baltimore Interim Police Commissioner Kevin Davis and other community and federal leaders attend the Justice Department Summit on Violence Crime Reduction



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Prosecutor Smears Grieving Mother Whose 12-Year-Old Was Gunned Down By Police


Ohio prosecutor Timothy McGinty accused the family of 12-year-old police shooting victim Tamir Rice of being “economically motivated” in their pursuit to bring the officer responsible to trial.

They waited until they didn’t like the reports they received. They’re very interesting people… let me just leave it at that… and they have their own economic motives,” McGinty said during a community meeting Thursday, Cleveland’s WKYC reported.

McGinty’s remarks Thursday were his first public comments on the grand jury process regarding Rice’s death, raising questions about his objectivity in the case and its ongoing investigation ...



http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/11/07/3720278/mcginty-says-rice-family-has-economic-motives/


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Tamir Rice's mother Samaria Rice, center, locks arms with supporters during a rally following the police shooting death of her son.


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