Things To Stop Being Distracted By When A Black Person Gets Murdered By Police

08/12/14 Mike Brown by Mia McKenzie A Black person is murdered by cops, security guards or self-appointed vigilantes every 28 hours in the U.S. The killing of an unarmed Black teenager named Mike Brown in Ferguson, MO, which has resulted in protests in that town and harsh police push-back and brutality against even more of […]

Prejudice Kills a Homeless Woman

by Piper Hoffman   April 2, 2012 http://www.care2.com/causes/ The national tendency to blame the homeless for their plight collided with the war on drugs to kill an innocent woman near St. Louis last September. 29-year-old Anna Brown, a homeless mother of two, went to the hospital seeking treatment for a sprained ankle and leg pain. After […]

Police pull guns on, arrest boy, 12

By Nadja Hainke From: Northern Territory News December 18, 2010 6:40AM Tom Herbert was arrested by police for playing with a hand-made toy gun. Picture: Regi Varghese POLICE pulled their guns on a 12-year-old boy playing in a yard in the Northern Territory because they thought he was hiding behind a fence with a rifle. […]