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“Deflecting From The Full Truth”: Prisoner Was Wrong; Freddie Gray Didn’t...

Before the second prisoner was even in the police van, Freddie Gray asked the police for medical assistance. So you have to wonder why on earth a man who had just asked for help would then try to hurt...

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“It’s Hard For Me To Understand”: Experts; You Can’t Break Your Own Spine...

On Wednesday night, The Washington Post leaked an alleged report from the Baltimore Police Department, which claims that Freddie Gray, the 21-year-old who died a week after his spine was fractured...

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“Riots And Results”: The Next Time A Suspect Dies, People In The Community...

Yesterday, I wrote about how the explanation Baltimore police gave for the death of Freddie Gray was almost impossible to believe, and apparently, state’s attorney Marilyn Mosby felt the same way after...

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“The Only Officers Who Would Have A Problem Are Bad Officers”: Do Police Have...

In Gardena, California, south of Los Angeles, three police officers killed an unarmed man, shooting him eight times, and shooting a second, seriously wounding him. They said the men were suspected of...

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“Emotional Distress And Mental Anguish”: Cleveland Cops Involved In 137-Shot...

Nine of the 13 Cleveland police officers involved in a 137-shot barrage that left an unarmed black man and woman dead after a high-speed chase in 2012 filed a lawsuit last November claiming that they...

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“Your Support For Brutality Or Your Life”: Plainly An Effort To Extort The...

In the latest and most open demonstration that some law enforcement officers are prone to go on strike if their tactics are challenged, two unnamed Baltimore cops blandly told CNN that citizens of the...

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“Official Justifications For Savagery”: Police Officers Must Be Held To...

The omnipresence of video cameras hasn’t restrained the impulses of violent police officers, it seems, but cameras have at least repudiated the narratives that have saved so many police from...

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“We Need Cops With People Skills”: Police Authority Presupposes Legitimacy...

What can I do? Not quite six months ago, a reader named Tracy posed that question to me and I, in turn, posed it to you. Tracy, a 55-year-old white woman from Austin, said she was sick of hearing about...

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“Official Reports Usually Side With Police Officers”: Sorry, But It’s Going...

One day in April of 1880, a cadet named Johnson Whittaker was found unconscious in his room at West Point. Whittaker, who was African American, had been gagged and beaten, tied to his bed and slashed...

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“Relying On Anecdotes From Police Officials”: No Data Exists To Support...

Shortly after FBI Director James Comey delivered ill-considered remarks linking increased scrutiny of police to rising crime, a cellphone video of a Columbia, South Carolina, school cop violently...

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“Nothing To Do With Race”: The Simplistic Way Many Of Us Perceive The...

It had nothing to do with race. So said Sheriff Leon Lott, last week, in discussing a violent arrest by one of his officers, a white deputy named Ben Fields, of a black female student at Spring Valley...

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“Reality Of Implicit Race Bias Is Well-Documented”: Overcoming Implicit...

I once read a question that went as follows: Two groups of young men are walking on opposite sides of the street. One group is black, the other, white. Both are loud and swaggering, both have baseball...

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“Cop Killers Serve No Cause”: It’s Getting To The Point Where No Lives Matter

How can anyone ever explain this to Mason? He’s only 4 months old, so that moment still lies years in the future. Still, at some point, too soon, he will ask the inevitable questions, and someone will...

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