On AlterNet: police brutality
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "police brutality"
Amy Goodman, Truthdig. September 5, 2008.
Government crackdowns on journalists are a true threat to democracy.
AlterNet Staff, AlterNet AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. August 26, 2008.
Cop slams protester to the ground, then detains her before she can talk to the press.
Steven D., Booman Tribune AlterNet: PEEK. August 15, 2008.
Will the officer be punished justly for tasering a man to death? Probably not, still we should, I suppose, be happy he was indicted at all.
Clif, Sadly, No! AlterNet: PEEK. August 12, 2008.
To use tragedy as a way to peddle ignorant and racist views is despicable.
Jill Hussein C., Brilliant at Breakfast AlterNet: PEEK. August 8, 2008.
This is why the 4th Amendment is so important ...
Bill Weinberg, AlterNet. July 30, 2008.
As activists continue to fight for people's rights to keep their homes in New Orleans, repression by local authorities is brutal.
Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. July 30, 2008.
"The police must have felt overwhelmed and would naturally need to taser the groom or risk having to use deadly force instead."
Steven D., Booman Tribune AlterNet: PEEK. July 29, 2008.
More Taser news from the heartland.
Mark Ristaino, AlterNet AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. July 28, 2008.
Police brutality caught on tape.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. July 25, 2008.
Members of special tactical unit had been sued for brutality in the past.
Steven D., Booman Tribune AlterNet: PEEK. July 22, 2008.
Who happens to like using his Taser quite a bit.
Pam Spaulding, Pam's House Blend AlterNet: Video. June 19, 2008.
When victim ignored slurs, officers attacked with handcuffs, mace.
Pam Spaulding, Pandagon AlterNet: PEEK. May 8, 2008.
Fifteen police officers in Philadelphia dragged 3 suspects from their car and beat them.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson, deleted. April 25, 2008.
Nailing cops for bad shootings has always been virtually impossible. The Bell case was no exception.
Liliana Segura, AlterNet AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. April 25, 2008.
New York City police officers get away with murder. Again.
Dread Scott, AlterNet. March 29, 2008.
Artist Dread Scott argues that the controversy over his art installation only proves his point about "America's abuses of power."
Pam Spaulding, Pandagon AlterNet: PEEK. March 23, 2008.
The mounting incidents of violence being perpetrated by the inappropriate use of Tasers is unnerving.
Pam Spaulding, Pam's House Blend AlterNet: Video. March 20, 2008.
And in the Ripley’s Believe It Or Not department, we’ve got a case of someone in Austrailia being tased for "aggressive language."
Melissa McEwan, Shakesville AlterNet: PEEK. March 13, 2008.
I would say it's unbelievable, but, of course, it's totally, depressingly believable.
Pam Spaulding, Pam's House Blend AlterNet: PEEK. February 26, 2008.
Wouldn't you prefer to have your tax dollars go toward police officers focusing on real urban crime, rather than kids skateboarding?
Pam Spaulding, Pam's House Blend AlterNet: Video. February 11, 2008.
The victim was kept in a cell for six hours, was not allowed to make a phone call or to get medical assistance for cuts and bruises she received.
Jessica Hoffmann, ColorLines. December 21, 2007.
The Phoenix metropolitan area is the most dangerous in the nation for Latinos.
Cliff Schecter, Brave New Films AlterNet: Video. November 22, 2007.
Cliff Schecter: Klein really has put together one of the most dangerous trends gripping our world and our political culture.
Manila Ryce, The Largest Minority AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. November 19, 2007.
Manila Ryce: The victim is shown being tasered on videotape even after he was handcuffed.
Gabriel Thompson, RaceWire AlterNet: PEEK. November 15, 2007.
Gabriel Thompson: Unfortunately this is just one example of a disturbing national trend.
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