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On January 5, DC Mayor Bowser wrote in a letter to acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy and acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller, in which she requested that officials notify the city and its police department if federal authorities are deployed. “To be clear, the District of Columbia is … Read more
Established in 2013, in response to the acquittal of the man who killed black Florida teenager Trayvon Martin Seeks to stoke black rage over the “virulent anti-Black racism” that “permeates our society” Says America was originally “built on Indigenous genocide and chattel slavery” and “continues to thrive on the brutal exploitation of people of color” … Read more
Today the head of New York State’s police unions slammed criticism of officers following George Floyd demonstrations, saying police were being treated like “animals.” “I am not Derek Chauvin; they [officers present] are not him,” Mike O’Meara, president of the New York Association of Police Benevolent Associations, told reporters on Tuesday while gesturing to officers … Read more