Category Archives: Rights

Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, the Proud Boys leader who openly boasted of burning a BLM banner taken from a black church in D.C., was yesterday sentenced to five months in jail over the incident. It’s a stiff sentence for such a minor crime, but context matters in law as in life.
— Read on boingboing.net/2021/08/24/proud-boys-leader-jailed-for-five-months-for-burning-churchs-blm-banner.html/amp

“We have a large group of antifa trying to flank us an you. We are stopping them for now… but not sure how long.” This is one of hundreds of text messages sent between Portland Police Bureau (PPB) Lt. Jeff Niiya and Joey Gibson, leader of Vancouver alt-right group Patriot Prayer over the past two years. Like many messages discovered in a records request made in August by the Portland Mercury, it reflects many of…
— Read on www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2019/02/14/25885836/texts-show-protective-relationship-between-portland-cops-and-patriot-prayer

After several hours the department deleted the tweet without explanation. Still, the post raises questions about the department’s capacity to care about Black men killed by police and other forms of violence against Black and other communities of color.
— Read on newsone.com/4188628/houston-pd-deletes-racist-tweet-1917-race-massacre-black-men-killed-by-police/

The action will impose an independent monitor and end a nearly five-year investigation into accusations of excessive force, stops of minorities and practices involving the use of police canines.
— Read on www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-08-23/attorney-general-requires-police-reforms-in-bakersfield

According to the lawsuit, Hanks claims that he was denied a promotion earlier this year to the Gang Violence Task Force because of racial bias and when his accusations went public he faced retaliation from his department.
— Read on www.ebony.com/news/syracuse-police-officer-files-33-million-lawsuit-against-the-city-and-department-alleging-blatant-and-extreme-racism/

Experts say the prosecution of protesters continues a century-long practice rooted in structural racism to suppress Black social movements via the use of surveillance tactics and other mechanisms.

It deliberately targeted BLM protesters via heavy-handed criminal prosecutions in an attempt to disrupt and discourage the movement in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, a new report says.
— Read on www.npr.org/2021/08/20/1029625793/black-lives-matter-protesters-targeted

A report from The Marshall Project highlights 41 fatal shootings by Kentucky State Police in the past six years, with zero indictments of any of the officers involved.
— Read on www.thenorthstar.com/p/kentucky-state-police-have-killed