The Denver Police Department is looking to equip 800 officers with body cameras in 2015.
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Last Tuesday, two St. Louis police officers shot and killed 25-year-old Kajieme Powell just a few miles away from the ongoing protests sparked by the police killing of another young black man, Michael Brown of Ferguson, Missouri.
Ferguson’s fires run counter to the narrative about suburbia, the story Americans tell themselves about strip malls and rolling lawns, about McMansions and upward mobility.
The days succeeding the tragic police shooting death of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, have further affirmed or exposed several unfortunate realities present within our society today.
Michael Brown’s family and community deserve more than the slim chance of his killer going to jail. Another Midwestern town, torn by a police shooting, has the answer.
As the Brown grand jury hears evidence, are its white and black members even hearing the same thing? Many studies suggest: probably not.
This is the year in which we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Bill.
This essay, which originally appeared on TomDispatch, is excerpted from the first chapter of Patrick Cockburn’s new book
Representative Paul Ryan’s response to the shooting death of Michael Brown by Ferguson, Missouri, police was fairly straightforward: say nothing, do nothing.
“It keep saying ‘no network error’. We had a foreign reporter on the roof with us and she wasn’t able to get a signal on her cell phone. And people on the ground were saying ‘I can’t tweet out.’”
A volunteer with DreamDefenders.org, a racial justice group, is arrested in Ferguson, MO.
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