police violence – Page 12

Newsom signs eight new California laws targeting police violence

October 5, 2021 By Marilyn Bechtel

Big steps forward for police responsibility and accountability.

Now on Newsom’s desk: social justice, ethnic studies, worker protections, and payments

September 17, 2021 By Marilyn Bechtel

Some 900 bills improving conditions for the majority in California await the governor’s signature.

Uncovered video shows Louisiana cop beating Black man, inflicting ‘pain compliance’

August 26, 2021 By Jim Mustian And Jake Beleiberg

Video kept secret for more than two years shows a Louisiana State Police trooper pummeling a Black motorist 18 times with a flashlight.

Prosecutors targeted Black Lives Matter protesters in hopes of disrupting the movement

August 19, 2021 By Kat Stafford

The push to use federal charges against protesters came from top-down directives from former President Donald Trump and former Attorney General William Barr.

KKK murder plot involving Florida prison guards exposed

August 10, 2021 By Jason Dearen

It was 11:30 a.m. on March 19, 2015, and the klansmen were celebrating what they thought was a successful murder in Florida. But the FBI had gotten wind of the plot.