Staff / TruthdigJul 14, 2016
Citizens who provide video evidence of police brutality are doing a public service. Police harassment of those citizens has to stop. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJul 12, 2016
In an NPR interview, the poet discusses race in America and reads a poem she wrote in the aftermath of the deaths of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling, who were shot and killed by police officers. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Chris Hedges / TruthdigJul 11, 2016
The police kill citizens with impunity, and that is exactly how the system is designed to work. The numerous little police states that exist in poor urban areas across the U.S. are models for a system that would enslave all of us. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
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Staff / TruthdigJul 8, 2016
The same white Americans who demand that all Muslims account for the “evil acts of a few” fail to criticize the violence perpetrated by their white counterparts in uniform, Michael Eric Dyson wrote in The New York Times. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJul 7, 2016
There is little likelihood of peace in the U.S. as long as armed law enforcement touches so many aspects of people's daily lives, writes Kai Wright at The Nation. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJul 7, 2016
One day after cops killed Alton Sterling, a black man in Baton Rouge, La., video was posted online appearing to show the aftermath of a fatal police shooting of Philando Castile, 32 and black, at a traffic stop in Minnesota. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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