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

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Minneapolis police arrest three in shooting of Black Lives Matter protesters


... A 23-year-old white man was arrested before midday in the Minneapolis suburb of Bloomington and two men aged 26 and 21, both white, turned themselves in and were later arrested, police said.

A fourth man, whom police arrested near midday, was released after investigators determined he had not been at the scene of the shooting, which happened late Monday about a block from the protest over the shooting of Jamar Clark, police said ...



http://news.yahoo.com/minneapolis-police-arrest-three-shooting-black-lives-matter-005953665.html

A member of the group Black Lives Matter sits in the road to block traffic so protesters could pass through an intersection during a march on city hall in Minneapolis, November 24, 2015. REUTERS/Craig Lassig


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[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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Officer charged with murder in teen's death; video released


CHICAGO (AP) -- A white Chicago police officer who shot a black teenager 16 times last year was charged with first-degree murder Tuesday, hours before the city released a video of the killing that many people fear could spark unrest ...


http://news.yahoo.com/source-chicago-cop-expected-charged-teens-death-090806427.html

Journalist Brandon Smith, left, and activist William Calloway talk to reporters Thursday, Nov. 19, 2015, after a Cook County judge ordered the Chicago Police Department to release a video of an officer fatally shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by Nov. 25, in Chicago. The video is said to show the officer shooting McDonald 16 times in October 2014. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)


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[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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Raw: Chicago Officer Fatally Shoots Black Teen

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Officer charged with murder in teen's death; video released


CHICAGO (AP) -- A white Chicago police officer who shot a black teenager 16 times last year was charged with first-degree murder Tuesday, hours before the city released a video of the killing that many people fear could spark unrest ...


http://news.yahoo.com/source-chicago-cop-expected-charged-teens-death-090806427.html

Journalist Brandon Smith, left, and activist William Calloway talk to reporters Thursday, Nov. 19, 2015, after a Cook County judge ordered the Chicago Police Department to release a video of an officer fatally shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by Nov. 25, in Chicago. The video is said to show the officer shooting McDonald 16 times in October 2014. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)


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[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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Fox News asked a Chicago protester about black-on-black crime. His response was perfect



The common defense to criticisms of racial disparities in police use of force takes the form of a question: "But what about black-on-black crime?" The conservative argument is that black people are disproportionately killed by gun violence in their own communities, so perhaps they should worry about that before they worry about what police are doing ...


Must-see video:
http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2015/11/25/9800940/fox-news-chicago-black-on-black-crime

Scott Olson/Getty Images

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[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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Obama 'deeply disturbed' by Chicago police shooting


Chicago (AFP) - President Barack Obama said he was "deeply disturbed" by video of a white Chicago policeman shooting dead a black teenager, in the latest such incident to roil the United States ...


http://news.yahoo.com/obama-deeply-disturbed-chicago-police-shooting-020942977.html

Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke, seen in a booking photo obtained November 24, 2015, from the Cook County Sheriff's Office, has been charged with first-degree murder in the 2014 death of a black teenager whose shooting was captured on camera (AFP Photo/)


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