Undue force - Sun Investigates - The Baltimore Sun

Undue force - Sun Investigates - The Baltimore Sun: "The city has paid about $5.7 million since 2011 over lawsuits claiming that police officers brazenly beat up alleged suspects. One hidden cost: The perception that officers are violent can poison the relationship between residents and police."

Since 2011, Baltimore City has paid

$5,765,065

in settlements and court judgments on cases alleging misconduct by police'via Blog this'

‘Black Lives Matter’ Chants Heard In North Charleston | Here & Now

‘Black Lives Matter’ Chants Heard In North Charleston | Here & Now: "Today people are rallying in North Charleston, South Carolina, after a video surfaced yesterday showing a white police officer, Michael Slager, shooting and killing Walter Scott, an unarmed black man."

'via Blog this'

Tony Robinson: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

1. Police Were Responding to a Disturbance

2.Robinson Was a Recent High School Graduate About to Attend College

3. Protesters Have Gathered in Madison

4. The Officer’s Name Hasn’t Been Released Yet

5. There Were 2 Fatal Police Shootings in Madison Last Year

Young, Gifted and Black, a Madison-based group, responded to the shooting in a Facebook statement:

Tonight an unarmed 19-year old Black teenager, Anthony Robinson was shot 5 times in the chest and killed by the Madison Police Department. Reports between the police and the youth’s friends differ, but it is clear he was unarmed. Few details are currently known, but this police murder is in the same vein as what happened to Michael Brown in Ferguson, Eric Garner in New York, and Dontre Hamilton in Milwaukee. Given the racial disparities in Madison, we have known our city is no different.

Berkeley students find cardboard cutouts of black lynching victims hanging on campus

Who’s this Laura Nelson?

One of the figures printed on the cutout was that of Laura Nelson, a black woman lynched in Oklahoma in 1911, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Nelson’s 18-year-old son, Lawrence, also was hanged by a white mob that broke into their jail cell, the paper added.