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Protesters hold up a lighted sign reading "#sayhername" during a July 2015 vigil for Sandra Bland in Chicago. Bland died in a Texas jail after a traffic stop escalated into a physical confrontation. Authorities said Bland hanged herself, a finding her fam

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Say Her Name: How The Fight For Racial Justice Can Be More Inclusive Of Black Women

7:05pm July 07, 2020

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Kimberlé Crenshaw, co-founder of the Say Her Name campaign, about how the Black Lives Matter movement can be more inclusive of Black women.

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A fireworks display rises above an empty park on Wednesday in Brooklyn. According to New York City officials, complaints about fireworks have skyrocketed in recent weeks.

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NYC To Crack Down On Mystery Fireworks That Are Fraying Nerves And Disrupting Sleep

7:00am June 28, 2020

by Sally Herships

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has formed a task force aimed at halting the illegal sale of fireworks that have prompted thousands of complaints.

The NYPD says officer David Afanador was arrested Thursday on charges of strangulation and attempted strangulation over the incident last weekend on the Rockaway Beach boardwalk.

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NYPD Officer Accused Of Using Chokehold Charged With Strangulation

1:36pm June 26, 2020

by Quil Lawrence

The officer, 39-year-old David Afanador, was suspended the same day the cellphone video appeared to show him choking a Black man on a Queens boardwalk.

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NYPD Suspends Officer Over Using Apparent Chokehold During Arrest

7:03pm June 22, 2020

by Quil Lawrence

Video shows an officer using an apparent chokehold on a man who had been shouting invective at passersby and police. Chokeholds have been banned in New York City since 1993.

Pallbearers bring the remains of Rayshard Brooks into the Ebenezer Baptist Church for his viewing Monday in Atlanta, Georgia. Brooks was killed June 12 by an Atlanta police officer after a struggle during a field sobriety test in a Wendy's restaurant park

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Rayshard Brooks's Public Viewing Underway In Martin Luther King Jr.'s Church

3:49pm June 22, 2020

by Brakkton Booker

Brooks' death on June 12 added to the fury and anger already felt by demonstrators protesting against systemic racism and police brutality in Atlanta and across the nation.

Contra Costa County District Attorney Diana Becton, during a 2018 press conference. She and other prosecutors want DAs to reconsider taking campaign money from police unions.

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Are Prosecutors Too Cozy With Police? Some DAs Say Campaign Contributions Need To End

2:06pm June 18, 2020

by Eric Westervelt

Some California district attorneys say accepting campaign money from police unions creates the appearance of a conflict of interest, both real and perceived, when investigating police.

Race

Triad Juneteenth Celebrations In The Shadows Of Pandemic And Police Brutality

1:55pm June 18, 2020

by David Ford

Galveston, Texas, was the sight of a famous speech given by Civil War Union General Gordon Granger in 1865.

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A mine resistant ambush protected vehicle, or MRAP, originally created for the military, displayed in 2013 by a sheriff's department official in Warren County, N.Y.

Twin Cities Area Police Forces Loaded Up On War Surplus Under President Trump

5:33pm June 16, 2020

by David Welna

Many law enforcement agencies in suburban Minneapolis and St. Paul that policed protests are recent entrants to a decades-old Pentagon program of transferring military gear to cops.

Greensboro Protesters Decry City’s Attempt To Delay Smith Trial

4:13pm June 16, 2020

by David Ford

In Greensboro, community leaders and activists are calling on the city to withdraw its motion to delay the wrongful death trial of Marcus Smith.

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Alexandra Natapoff, a law professor at the University of California at Irvine, says an over-emphasis on low-level crimes like traffic violations and loitering disproportionately affect African Americans.

Law Professor On Misdemeanor Offenses And Racism In The Criminal System

3:47pm June 13, 2020

by Christianna Silva

The killings of George Floyd and many others all began with allegations of a minor offense. These make up 80% of criminal arrests and cases in the U.S., and disproportionately affect people of color.

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