Kasia Anderson / TruthdigDec 10, 2014
On Tuesday, four months after Michael Brown was shot and killed by Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Mo., news broke that the Justice Department had released the results of its own autopsy. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigDec 8, 2014
"If you speak up. We will have your back front and sideways," a woman told NYPD officers in Union Square during Saturday's protests against the grand jury decision in the Eric Garner case. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
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Chris Hedges / TruthdigDec 8, 2014
The murder of unarmed citizens by police is not only about racism. It is an example of the omnipotence of the corporate state and the evisceration of the rule of law. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )
BLANKDec 7, 2014
When a grand jury declined to indict an NYPD officer in the death of Eric Garner, The Nation Institute fellow drove past the reservations, equivocations and micro-concerns that typify polite journalism and seized the message of the day. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigDec 6, 2014
Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer and the other "Left, Right & Center" panelists consider the grand jury's clearing of a white police officer in the chokehold death of black Staten Island man Eric Garner. "Are grand juries going to allow police officers to be held accountable?" Scheer asks. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Natasha Hakimi Zapata / TruthdigDec 6, 2014
The former president isn't exactly someone to model a moral compass after, which is why you may find it surprising to hear his reaction to a New York grand jury decision not to indict the policeman whose chokehold preceded Eric Garner's death. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Juan Cole / TruthdigDec 6, 2014
The social statistics produced by the Afrikaner Apartheid regime in South Africa are not so different from those produced by ordinary everyday legal and social practices in today’s United States. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigDec 6, 2014
After a second night of massive protests in New York City against a grand jury's failure to indict NYPD officers in the death of Staten Island resident Eric Garner, "Democracy Now!" hosts an explosive roundtable discussion on police racism against black Americans. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
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