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Philadelphia’s acting police commissioner Christine M. Coulter apologized this week for allegedly unknowingly wearing a Los Angeles Police Department T-shirt that alluded to the 1991 beating of Rodney King. “L.A.P.D. ‘We Treat You Like A King,’” the shirt reads. The photograph of Coulter wearing the shirt is from the ’90s,…
The Los Angeles Police Department is staying silent about an off-duty police officer that shot and killed a “non-violent, non-aggressive, non-verbal” disabled man, 32-year-old Kenneth French. The officer also found it necessary to shoot both of the victim’s parents as well. French’s parents, Russell and Paola French, were still in an…
The Los Angeles Police Department is staying silent about an off-duty police officer that shot and killed a “non-violent, non-aggressive, non-verbal” disabled man, 32-year-old Kenneth French. The officer also found it necessary to shoot both of the victim’s parents as well. French’s parents, Russell and Paola French, were still in an…
What is the price of tolerating systemic law enforcement racism In this case, it may mean that a gang terrorist and murderer will go free. A well-known gang leader, previously on death row and accused of more than 20 murders since the 1990s, might be the beneficiary of a racist…
A former Los Angeles Police Department officer will face no charges for killing an unarmed Black homeless man three years ago despite, unusually, the police chief calling for prosecution. Clifford Proctor, who resigned from the force in 2017, shot and killed 29-year-old Brendon Glenn in 2015. During a struggle, Proctor,…
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