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Showing posts with label criminal justice. Show all posts

Showing posts with label criminal justice. Show all posts

October 13, 2014

634 Taser-Related Deaths in the United States Since 2001

Today we added 54-year old Macario Garcia ( Pleasanton, TX ) as the 283rd taser-related death in America since 2009. [ NOTE : the full lis...

September 23, 2014

Taser Death: Daniel Satre (Ballston Spa, NY)

Daniel Satre It happened again ! This time an unarmed man was electrocuted by 50,000 volts from each of the taser guns used on him by...

September 21, 2014

Rest in Peace: Troy Davis (1968-2011)

The state of Georgia carried out the death penalty on Troy Davis on this date in 2011. He was declared dead at 11:08 pm ET on September 2...

September 7, 2014

Spoken Word: Daniel Beaty, 'Knock, Knock'

Soulclap to my sister for sharing this with us via her Pinterest account . Daniel Beaty is an actor, singer and author ... as well as a ...

August 25, 2014

Melissa Harris-Perry: The Death of Black Men in America

Melissa Harris-Perry shares a powerful essay on the plight of Black men in America over the past decade. Local police killed a Black p...

March 26, 2014

'Scandal' Star Columbus Goes Gladiator on Some Fool

Columbus Short -- who plays gladiator Harrison Wright on ' Scandal ' -- was involved in a bar fight in which the other guy ended...

August 27, 2013

Am I Not Human? Emmett Till (1941-1955)

Emmitt Till was murdered on this day in 1955. Till was a 14-year-old African American boy who was beaten and shot to death by two white m...

August 8, 2013

Who Murdered Bijan Shoushtari?

18-year old Bijan Shoushtari was a young man with a future . I guess that all families feel that way about their children, brothers, siste...

April 2, 2013

Perp Walk: NY State Sen. Malcolm Smith

I visited my grandfather's office on Capitol Hill back in the day. I was dressed business casual. My grandfather asked if I was comin...

July 31, 2012

James Holmes is a Terrorist ... And We Need to Stand Up Against Gun Violence

It pisses me off that James Holmes is a 2010 graduate of the University of California, Riverside with a degree in neuroscience. I'm als...

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