Friday, March 29, 2024
Advertisement
Tags Extrajudicial executions by U.S. police

Tag: extrajudicial executions by U.S. police

Pow! You’re dead: Police murders enrage New Orleans

The ink was barely dry on the convictions and plea bargains of 10 members of the New Orleans Police Department in the Danziger Bridge murders and coverup, when NOPD police gunned down Justin Sipp and unarmed Wendell Allen. Hundreds marched in protest of ongoing police murders of Black youth. The African American community is beginning to fight back.

Aftermath of the execution of Oscar Grant: Everything’s under control

In October 2007, the Justice Department reported that during the three years from 2003 through 2005 police in the U.S. killed, on average, a person every day.