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NOLA vs. the po-po
March 10, 2010
The veil of authority and legitimacy shielding most urban police forces against popular suspicion and distrust simply doesn’t exist in New Orleans. Hardly anyone likes or trusts the po-po. The actual point of this piece is to reflect a little on the war currently raging between the people of New Orleans and the NOPD.
U.N. advisors host town hall on forced evictions in New Orleans
July 30, 2009
A group of advisors who will report to the director of the U.N. Habitat agency held a town hall meeting in New Orleans on Sunday, July 26, to hear from resident experts and other community members about housing rights violations along the Gulf Coast since Hurricane Katrina.
New Year’s resolution: Stop shooting young Black men
January 9, 2009
Oscar Grant III and Adolph Grimes III were both young and Black, and therefore both were gunned down by police in the early hours of New Year’s Day, one in Oakland, one in New Orleans.
New Orleans mobilizes against police murder of Adolph Grimes
January 8, 2009
About two dozen citizens gathered outside of the 2nd District police headquarters at 7:30 this morning to condemn the slaying of Adolph Grimes III by a gang of New Orleans police officers.