Civil Rights | Police Brutality

2010-07-31: Headlines

  • Free Malaysia Today: FMT Team: Kota Samarahan cops under fire over abuse claims 2010-07-31
    Crackdown on undocumented workers 'no surprise' | Talent show picks 26-year-old as top 'Young Imam' | 'No voter registration forms in Sarawak' | 'Penang govt need to be more innovative' | centerOnScroll: 1}) ) | By Joseph TawieKOTA SAMARAHAN: Reports of police brutality came to fore in two separate instances involving a teenager and a mother in Sarawak recently.
  • Accra Daily Mail: Administrator: No rights; to a place of abode in own country-Mrs Ingabire 2010-07-31
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  • Scoop.co.nz: Asia: Womens views on prevention of torture 2010-07-31
    Keywords: broadcast journalist. | it should be different? | all vehicles could be stopped and subjected to inspection. | to save the life of the victim. | Definitely bad! I am against all aspects of torture. | relationship between the police and citizens? | police are seen as heroes, fighting evil, promoting the law. | you feel safe to go the police and complain? | an answer to the problems of others. | implemented?
  • Nepal News: Police break up of protest in Paris didnt go well 2010-07-31
    Police filmed dragging a women along the pavement with her baby slung round her back are accused of brutality.

2010-07-30: Headlines

  • Inter Press Service: HUMAN RIGHTS-CHILE 2010-07-30
    The controversial proposal to pardon some convicts in Chile for humanitarian reasons, which was put forward by the Catholic Church and partially taken up by President Sebasti·n PiÒera, has revived the debate on the country's human rights situation, both past and present.
  • rabble.ca: The right to the city: Interview with Carnegie Community Action Project's Jean Swanson 2010-07-30
    Jean Swanson is the co-writer of Carnegie Community Action Project's new report, Assets to Action: Community Vision for Change in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and the author of Poor Bashing: The Politics of Exclusion. Am Johal interviewed her in Vancouver. | Am Johal: The Carnegie Community Action Project has been organizing in the Downtown Eastside for some time. The gentrificiation pressures have continued to escalate.
  • The Hindu: $7-million settlement in police shooting case 2010-07-30
    The city of New York on Thursday agreed to pay more than $7 million to settle a civil lawsuit filed by victims of a police brutality case dating back to November 2006. | While two of the victims injured in the incident — Joseph Guzman and Trent Benefield — were set to receive $3.25 million and $900,000 respectively, the children of the man killed on his wedding day by police officers — Sean Bell
  • Xtra.ca: Where do we go from here? 2010-07-30
  • NewYorkInjuryNews: Brooklyn personal injury: NYPD faces police brutality suit for unprovoked attack 2010-07-30
    Brooklyn, NY €“ The mother of an 18-year-old man who was body-slammed by a NYPD officer in early July announced plans to sue the New York City Police Department for their alleged unprovoked attack, as reported by NY1.com. | On July 11, Rahiym Holmes was with a group of teenage friends walking home from a barbecue at Canarsie Pier.
  • Huffington Post: Mona Gable: A True Populist Revolt in Bell: And its not the Tea Partiers 2010-07-30
    Keywords: check: function(entry_id) | qacct:"p-6fTutip1SMLM2" | if (!bubble) return; | if (!entry_id) return; | if (!user_id) return; | if (!badge_type) return; | We haven't had much to cheer about lately, between the Gulf oil spill and the war in Afghanistan and the pink mama grizzlies rearing up.
  • WITN: BREAKING NEWS: No Excessive Force In Councilwoman Arrest 2010-07-30
    Pitt County's district attorney says there is no evidence to support claims of excessive force in the arrest of Greenville city councilwoman Kandie Smith.
  • Punknews.org: Thomas Barnett (Strike Anywhere) 2010-07-30
    Jean Swanson is the co-writer of Carnegie Community Action Project's new report, Assets to Action: Community Vision for Change in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and the author of Poor Bashing: The Politics of Exclusion. Am Johal interviewed her in Vancouver. | Am Johal: The Carnegie Community Action Project has been organizing in the Downtown Eastside for some time. The gentrificiation pressures have continued to escalate.
  • GreaterKashmir.com: MLA BOOKED FOR ASSAULTING POLICE 2010-07-30
    Brooklyn, NY €“ The mother of an 18-year-old man who was body-slammed by a NYPD officer in early July announced plans to sue the New York City Police Department for their alleged unprovoked attack, as reported by NY1.com. | On July 11, Rahiym Holmes was with a group of teenage friends walking home from a barbecue at Canarsie Pier.
  • Trinidad Tobago Express: Make brutality probe clear, fair 2010-07-30
    Acting Police Commissioner James Philbert has moved quickly to begin a probe into an incident last Monday, in which police officers are alleged to have beaten 50-year-old Wayne Roberts, a TSTT employe...
  • Haaretz: no one can help such children 2010-07-30
    A routine wait at the Qalandiyah checkpoint led filmmaker Rima Essa to Ahlam, a little girl stricken with cancer, and the idea for a movie that poses some tough ethical dilemmas.

2010-07-28: Headlines

  • Huffington Post: Anis Shivani: Is This The Funniest Novelist In America? Interview With James Hynes, Author Of 'Next' 2010-07-28
    Hynes has in the past made major contributions to the campus comedy genre; with this courageous breakout novel, he's now one of our major American novelists, period.
  • Sunday Leader: Students To March On Police Headquarters Today 2010-07-28
    Sofia. Bulgarian Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov will be given a hearing in the parliament over a case of police brutality in the southern Bulgarian town of Kardzhali and other cases of police misconduct in the past one year.
  • SOHH: NYC Makes $7 Mil Settlement In Sean Bell Fatal Shooting Case 2010-07-28
    New York City has agreed to pay over $7 million to the family and associates of Sean Bell after he was fatally shot in 2006 by 50 bullets.
  • NPR: Egyptian Trial Sheds Light On Police Brutality 2010-07-28
    Two Egyptian policemen charged with brutality in the death of a young Alexandria man went on trial Tuesday, in a case that activists hope will shed light on rampant police abuses in the country.
  • San Bernardino Sun: Rialto officials maintain faith in police chief in midst of department sex scandal 2010-07-28
    The sex scandal that has rocked the Police Department and attracted widespread attention has not shaken officials' faith in rank-and-file officers or Chief Mark Kling, based on remarks they made at Tuesday night's City Council meeting. | "My confidence in Mark is high," said City Administrator Henry Garcia. "This is a small step backward."
  • Consortium News: LAPD Unit Breaks Up a Birthday Party 2010-07-28
    The sex scandal that has rocked the Police Department and attracted widespread attention has not shaken officials' faith in rank-and-file officers or Chief Mark Kling, based on remarks they made at Tuesday night's City Council meeting. | "My confidence in Mark is high," said City Administrator Henry Garcia. "This is a small step backward."
  • Focus News: Bulgarian Interior Minister to be given hearing in parliament over police misconduct case 2010-07-28
    Sofia. Bulgarian Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov will be given a hearing in the parliament over a case of police brutality in the southern Bulgarian town of Kardzhali and other cases of police misconduct in the past one year.
  • encore Online: Encore Magazine: No Struggle to the Groove: 2010-07-28
    It permeates year-round in Wilmington but especially in the summer. Out of our collective struggle with the humidity, a humble demeanor seemingly gets born. Along with it comes its musical supplement, reminding us that even when the air remains heavy, we can still embrace the breath of life. It’s safe to say that about now, most folks could go for some reggae.

2010-07-27: Headlines

  • Sovo.com: APD Holds Discrete LGBT Town-hall Meeting 2010-07-27
    A TILTT (Trans Individuals Living Their Truth) spokesperson explored this topic more by blatantly, asking how the community can trust that the police will keep them safe and not resort to brutality against the citizens themselves.
  • World Socialist Web Site: Robert Stevens: Police cleared of all charges in death of London G20 victim Ian Tomlinson 2010-07-27
    On July 22, the Crown Prosecution Service cleared a Territorial Support Group police officer, PC Simon Harwood, of any charges relating to the death of Ian Tomlinson during the G20 summit in London last April.
  • Boston Globe: Breach of trust 2010-07-27
    Your article has been sent. | PRESIDENT OBAMA must confront fresh revelations that the Afghan war itself and Pakistan's alleged duplicitous participation remain out of control. On Sunday, The New York Times, the Guardian in London, and Der Spiegel in Germany published unflattering classified military documents leaked by WikiLeaks, an Internet whistleblower organization.
  • Journal: New group hopes to reduce “blatant abuse and police brutality” by police 2010-07-27
    "We won't stop until you stop!" | That's the rallying cry behind the League of Action, a new West Las Vegas group aiming to reduce what organizers say is "blatant abuse and police brutality" by local law enforcement. | adsonar_placementId=21160;adsonar_pid=167778;adsonar_ps=-1;adsonar_zw=250;adsonar_zh=250;adsonar_jv='ads.adsonar.com'; | "We're talking heavy-handed tactics that we think is unlawful detainment,"
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