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Wisconsin student’s dad sues over police officer’s neck restraint

An Illinois man has filed a federal lawsuit alleging an off-duty police officer improperly put his knee into his 12-year-old daughter's neck during a fight in a Wisconsin middle school last year

The Independent UK

Police violence upended the lives of these families attending Biden’s State of the Union

Mothers, fathers and siblings of Black victims of police brutality will attend prime-time address

The Independent UK

Wisconsin student's dad sues over officer's neck restraint

An Illinois man has filed a federal lawsuit alleging an off-duty police officer improperly put his knee into his 12-year-old daughter's neck during a fight in a Wisconsin middle school last year

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Can Congress pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act?

Lawmakers failed to meet Joe Biden’s deadline for comprehensive police reform legislation. Republicans say the bill is a ‘nonstarter’ while families of victims of police violence demand action

The Independent UK

Memphis police numbers dropped by nearly a quarter in recent years – were staffing shortages a factor in the killing of Tyre Nichols?

In the years running up to the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols, the Memphis Police Department faced an increasingly dire staffing crisis. Indeed, shortages on the force have led to questions over whether, given their relative lack of experience, the five officers now charged with Nichols’ murder would have been…

The Conversation

Colin Kaepernick Is Fact-Checking Police Killings, One Autopsy at a Time

It’s been seven years since he first knelt in protest of police violence—here’s what he’s doing about it.

Sports Illustrated

Leonard Greene: Without police brutality bill, George Floyd, Tyre Nichols deaths are in vain

You would think that after what happened in Memphis, legislators would be tripping over themselves to get to the House floor to pass a new law that promises real police reform.

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Suzan Lori-Parks: ‘Grief is an experience that has a lot of opportunity in it’

The Pulitzer prize-winning playwright discusses working through the pandemic and how to best utilise traumatic experiences

The Guardian - US

Black skateboarders on the life and death of Tyre Nichols: ‘He was one of us. That could have been me’

Three skaters address their own experiences, activism and the police response to their communities

The Guardian - US

146 NYC police committed misconduct in 2020 protests: Report

A new report says nearly 150 New York City police officers committed misconduct, including using excessive force, while responding to the 2020 protests over the killing of George Floyd

The Independent UK

Catholic church unveils Black Mary and Jesus posters in anti-racism drive

“It is important that we recognise the rich diversity of the Catholic community, not only in England and Wales, but throughout the world”

The Independent UK

What is the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act and is it likely to pass?

‘We need to get that bill passed,’ Tyre Nichols’s mother said at his funeral – but what is it, and will Congress ever act?

The Guardian - US

Tyre Nichols' mom, chief: Women on two sides of a tragedy

Tyre Nichols’ mother and Memphis police chief Cerelyn “CJ” Davis are two women caught on different sides of a tragedy

The Independent UK

Family of Amir Locke, shot in no-knock police raid, files lawsuit

The 22-year-old was killed in a police shooting after officers entered the Minneapolis apartment where he was sleeping.

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The Independent UK

Americans’ confidence in police dropped after Tyre Nichols beating

Trust in police was declining even before Tyre Nichols was killed

The Independent UK

Family of Minneapolis man killed in no-knock raid sues city

The parents of Amir Locke, who was killed by a Minneapolis police officer when a SWAT team executed a no-knock search warrant one year ago, are suing the city and the officer

The Independent UK

After Tyre Nichols’ death, can this bodycam AI make police more accountable?

After disturbing footage was released of Nichols’ death, one company has promised to change policing in America through the implementation of tech that analyzes police bodycams. Is it everything it seems? Holly Baxter reports

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: The video of Tyre Nichols’ murder is unbearable. But it shows why we need stories of both Black pain — and joy

The murder of Tyre Nichols and the individual and collective reckoning we have all encountered — whether or not to witness the brutal images of his final moments — sent me back to an issue that I’ve been wrestling with for two decades.

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Erika D. Smith: Before Tyre Nichols was a martyr, he was a Sacramento kid who didn't 'see color'

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Through it all, the family of Tyre Nichols put on their brave faces Wednesday in that church in Memphis, Tennessee.

Salon

Carlson's racist "joke" in Nichols rant

"White racism is getting harder to find," the Fox News host claimed during the segment

Los Angeles Times

Essay: The mother of Tyre Nichols couldn't hear his cries. Can you?

I have a vivid imagination, but I don't need one to visualize screaming for my mother in my last breaths, and her not hearing me.

Chicago Tribune

Legal experts fear Chicago’s slow police reforms could lead to a Tyre Nichols incident 8 years after Laquan McDonald firestorm

CHICAGO — The video-recorded killing of Tyre Nichols that led to charges against police officers in Memphis, Tennessee, stirred echoes in Chicago, where eight years ago another recorded death similarly sent shock waves across the nation and spurred public demand for police reform.

The Independent UK

High court offers bonuses, debt relief to lure police hires

Supreme Court police officers are looking for a few good men and women — as are law enforcement departments around the country in a tight employment market

WEKU

'Black on Black' celebrates Black culture while exploring history and racial tension

Daniel Black's essays call for an overhaul of the U.S. criminal justice system, of the Black church, of the way Black people see themselves, and of the country itself — and do so with authority

Tribune News Service

Adam Minter: Memphis police need to learn from Minneapolis’s mistakes

In Minneapolis, the video of Tyre Nichols’s fatal beating at the hands of Memphis police officers triggered unwelcome flashbacks. Just two and a half years ago, the city erupted with riots after video emerged of George Floyd’s murder. In the aftermath, hopes that Minneapolis’s troubled police department might be reformed…

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