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Article posted 7 December 2014 Hundreds of protesters stage ‘die-in’ on Kalamazoo Mall, demonstrate against racial inequality [via Facebook] posted 4pm

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Hundreds of protesters stage ‘die-in’ on Kalamazoo Mall, demonstrate against racial inequality

On Friday, Dec. 5, Kalamazoo citizens gathered to protest police brutality, racial inequality and the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown by staging a “die-in,” on Kalamazoo Mall.

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Article posted 7 December 2014 Protesters stage ‘die-in’ outside Orlando police station [via Facebook] posted 3pm

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Protesters stage ‘die-in’ outside Orlando police station

More than 100 people lay on the ground outside of the Orlando police headquarters Saturday afternoon, joining protesters nationwide upset over two recent grand jury decisions to not indict white police officers who killed unarmed black men.

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Article posted 7 December 2014 Being a cop showed me just how racist and violent the police are. Thereâ€™s only one fix. [via Facebook] posted 6am

#HoldOfficersAccountable #AbolishThePolice

Being a cop showed me just how racist and violent the police are. Thereâ€™s only one fix.

We don’t need more training, bad cops need to be punished.

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Article posted 6 December 2014 December 07, 2014 at 12:07AM [via Facebook] posted 9pm / revised 9pm

Denise Giardina, The Unquiet Earth. Well, that ended in misery. #YesAllAppalachianNovels

Article posted 6 December 2014 Protest against police brutality crashes Tampa tree-lighting event [via Facebook] posted 4pm / revised 4pm

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Protest against police brutality crashes Tampa tree-lighting event

More than 200 peaceful demonstrators joined the chorus of nationwide protests, this time marching into a downtown family holiday event at Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park.

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Article posted 6 December 2014 No charges for Utah cops who shot man holding cosplay sword six times in back [via Facebook] posted 8am

Utah Goddam #AbolishThePolice

No charges for Utah cops who shot man holding cosplay sword six times in back

Prosecutors in Utah have determined that two police officers were justified in the fatal shooting of 22-year-old Darrien Hunt.

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Article posted 6 December 2014 [via Facebook] posted 8am

Dude seriously

I don’t own the copyrights to this they belong to WB pictures . I found a very rare dance scene in the movie “The Gem of the Ocean ” starring Jeanne Aubert . The dance scene is of Dick and Edith Barstow doing Toetap some AMAZING stuff !!!! I give you Dick and Edith Barstow

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Article posted 6 December 2014 What I’ve Learned from Two Years Collecting Data on Police Killings [via Facebook] posted 8am

Just one solution. #AbolishThePolice Â«The biggest thing I’ve taken away from this project is something I’ll never be able to prove, but I’m convinced to my core: The lack of such a database is intentional. No governmentâ€”not the federal government, and not the thousands of municipalities that give their police forces license to use deadly forceâ€”wants you to know how many people it kills and why. It’s the only conclusion that can be drawn from the evidence. What evidence? In attempting to collect this information, I was lied to and delayed by the FBI, even when I was only trying to find out the addresses of police departments to make public records requests. The government collects millions of bits of data annually about law enforcement in its Uniform Crime Report, but it doesn’t collect information about the most consequential act a law enforcer can do…Â»

What I’ve Learned from Two Years Collecting Data on Police Killings

A few days ago, Deadspin’s Kyle Wagner began to compile a list of all police-involved shootings in the U.S. He’s not the only one to undertake such a project: D. Brian Burghart, editor of the Reno News & Review, has been attempting a crowdsourced national database of deadly police violence. We askedâ€¦

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Article posted 6 December 2014 Miami protesters shut down traffic on I-195 [via Facebook] posted 7am

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Miami protesters shut down traffic on I-195

Miami joined in a national series of protests against police brutality Friday, with hundreds marching and shutting down streets and a major highway during rush hour.

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Article posted 5 December 2014 December 05, 2014 at 11:55PM [via Facebook] posted 9pm / revised 9pm

Lacedaemonians: conquered. None now stand against me. #TermPaper