#police-violence

#police-violence

I'm probably one of the few people who hasn't seen the video footage of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols being beaten to death by five Memphis police officers.I haven't watched the video because, honestly, I am tired of seeing Black men die.It shouldn't be normal to participate in a person's last moments like this.

Renaud, 49, leaned out of the window of his Paris bin lorry, which was being held in its depot by a barricade of strikers.Emmanuel Macron doesn't seem to be listening to the anger out there, he said.People don't think we're in a democracy any more.A refuse-truck driver for 22 years, Renaud had watched as his garbage processing plant was blocked for the 15th day of a rubbish-collection strike that has all but submerged the French capital under 10,000 tonnes of waste.

UCLA junior Sania Tuli is worried that she's missing material she'll need when she takes her medical college admission exam next year.UC Riverside senior Nathalie Boutros fears she is falling behind in a class required to graduate because she hasn't been able to find help during the massive strike of 48,000 University of California academic workers.

That meant Brennan sometimes played music in the background.It was produced by Grammy-award-winning music producer Ian Brennan.The poet played some of Brennan's past work to his then 10-month-old son, who responded well to it.When he came to poetry, much of his work was built on the history and foundations of poetry slams and spoken word performances.Poet Raymond Antrobus Marilena Umuhoza Delli/Ian Brennan The artists recorded most tracks in one take.Poet Raymond Antrobus Marilena Umuhoza Delli/Ian Brennan Other sonic elements on the album include sound recorded underwater, such as on the track "Miami Airport Immigration."

By India Harville-
I'm proud of all my social identity markers-Black, queer, woman, and disabled.Out of all of my identities, developing disability pride was the most challenging.I didn't always identify as disabled, although I have had chronic health challenges my entire life.As a Black queer woman whose ancestors survived by hiding parts of themselves deemed deviant, dangerous, and unlovable by a white ableist cis-heteropatriarchy, I wasn't eager to publicly claim another marginalized identity.

Do you believe in discussion in our schools?Or do you want the schools to discuss just what you believe?That's the big question that all Americans need to ask themselves right now.And everything really, everything hinges on the answer.Witness two recent news stories, both involving book censorship.

In Germany, the Dortmund public prosecutor's office on Tuesday brought charges against five police officers in connection with the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old Senegalese teenager.The teenager's death led to protests against police violence in the western German city and sparked a debate over the treatment of minorities and how authorities handle cases involving people with mental illnesses.

The Ferry Building, San Francisco's historic waterfront transit center and marketplace, has seen an uptick in occupancy in the last few weeks.As of today, James Beard award-winning chef Reem Assil is serving chocolate chip halawa cookies and cardamom cold brew out of Suite 19 in the building, across the way from El Porteno.

The UN's Human Rights Council calls on France to reduce police violence and take steps to address racism.France has been criticised by the United Nations Human Rights Council for increased police violence, including against protesters, as widespread Labour Day demonstrations take over the country.France must take measures to, in a transparent manner, address allegations regarding excessive use of force by police and gendarmerie against protesters during demonstrations, Sweden's representative told the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday, when France marks its annual Labour Day.

Bolstered French police forces clashed with demonstrators in numerous cities Tuesday as hundred of thousands of marchers protested President Emmanuel Macron's unpopular retirement reform.Security was ramped up for the 10th round of protest marches since January after the government warned that some demonstrators intended to destroy, to injure and to kill.

Sportswear maker Adidas AG on Wednesday reversed course 48 hours after asking the U.S. Trademark Office to reject a Black Lives Matter application for a trademark featuring three parallel stripes."Adidas will withdraw its opposition to the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation's trademark application as soon as possible," the company said in a statement.

Sneaker giant Adidas AG has asked the US trademark office to reject an application for a Black Lives Matter trademark featuring three parallel stripes, arguing it could mislead the public.Adidas told the office in a Monday filing that Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation Inc's yellow-stripe design would create confusion with its own famous three-stripe mark.

By Nicolas Garriga and John Leicester | Associated Press PARIS Tens of thousands marched as protests and strikes against unpopular pension reforms gripped France again Tuesday, with police ramping up security after the government warned that radical demonstrators intended to destroy, to injure and to kill.

When Jacqueline McBride and two other Los Angeles police officers fatally shot a woman wielding a replica revolver in Silver Lake last week, McBride became the third member of her immediate family to shoot someone in the line of duty.The officers from the Los Angeles Police Department's Rampart Division responded to a call about 7:55 p.m. Wednesday that a woman in a trench coat was pointing a gun at passersby in the area around Silver Lake Boulevard and Temple Street, according to a police account of the incident.

File photo of French President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne at a meeting at the Elysee Palace, in Paris.Benoit Tessier, AP (archives) French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne on Monday is set to start a series of consultations over the next three weeks with opposition MPs, political parties and local leaders after weeks of protests over pension reforms.

The city will pay $75,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a protester who was struck by an NYPD cruiser in Park Slope during the 2020 wave of Black Lives Matter demonstrations.The incident occurred on May 30th of 2020, when thousands of Brooklynites took to the streets to decry police violence following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

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Monday, October 31, 2022 by Andrew Weber, KUT
City Council has approved a nearly $2 million settlement in a lawsuit related to police use of force during racial justice protests in 2020.In his complaint, José "Joe" Herrera said Austin police shot him in the leg with a "less-lethal" round, causing lasting nerve damage and triggering PTSD related to his military service in Iraq.

A defining project at TIME is the study of influencewho has it, what form it takes, and what it means to wield it.Our annual Women of the Year list, published on March 2, examines the most uplifting form of influence by spotlighting leaders who are using their voices to fight for a more equal world.

PALM SPRINGS, Calif.Tyre Nichols, the 29-year-old Black man who died in January after a brutal beating by Memphis police officers, never had the chance to exhibit the photographs he took of his adopted hometown.But starting this weekend, a selection will appear on roadside billboards as part of the Desert X biennial a highly adventurous and occasionally political art exhibition that can be viewed at outdoor sites across the Palm Springs area.

In 2017, my mother died in Berkeley, Calif.When our family was preparing to sell the house, a long-forgotten collection of negative strips was found, revealing photographs I had made as a teenager during the turbulent 1960s in the San Francisco Bay Area.With these aged strips of film my mother had tucked away for half a century, fragmented pieces of my memory have been returned to me like broken artifacts that now can be mended back together for revisiting.

A program aimed at improving the city's response to mental health emergencies has slid backward since its initial launch, with response times getting slower, more people sent to hospitals and stepped-up police involvement in cases.The program, the Behavioral Health Emergency Assistance Response Division, or B-HEARD, was aimed at reducing friction in crisis situations by sending trained professionals instead of cops.