police violence
Mothers of the victims of police violence on the march
July 13, 2020George Floyd’s call out to his mother as officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck called into existence a simmering national and global movement for an end to police violence.
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Black players demonstrate at Major League Soccer tourney
July 9, 2020(AP)—Now that Major League Soccer has re-started, a group of Black Major League Soccer players is using the moment to call attention to systemic racism across sports and society. Black Players for Change was formerly the...
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‘Strike for Black Lives’: Planned July 20 walkout unites BLM and unions
July 9, 2020Service Employees International Union has partnered with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the American Federation of Teachers, United Farm Workers, the Fight for $15 and a Union, the Poor People's Campaign, and others.
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Illinois Supreme Court rules Chicago police can’t destroy disciplinary records
July 8, 2020Disciplinary records are public property, and the Chicago cops can’t use their contract to cover up their past transgressions, the justices decreed, 6-1.
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Minnesota protesters demand justice for Isak Aden, Somali-American man killed by police
July 6, 2020Justice Squad and Take a Knee Nation are teaming up to bring mothers and family members of those who have lost their lives to police violence to a July 12 march on the state capitol.
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