Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez resigned from her position Monday after she and two other councilmembers were recorded making racist remarks. Driving the news: In a statement announcing her resignation, Martinez asked for forgiveness “from my colleagues and from the residents of this city that I love so much.” “In the end, it … Read more
<div id="firstBodyDiv" data-bind-html-content-type="article" data-bind-html-compile="article.body" data-first-article-body=" Police showed multiple videos at a news conference, which they said showed a bullet fired from the car that Gayland Walker, 25, was driving. Walker escaped in the car after officers tried to drive him to the side of the road for committing a crime Traffic violation simple. The video … Read more
Series Article reserved for subscribers Twenty years after the first episode of “The Wire”, David Simon and George Pelecanos return for OCS to the big city of Maryland plagued by drugs and institutional racism to retrace, in a new series, the Wayne Jenkins affair, symptomatic of the American police excesses. The stunning first scene of … Read more
Published on : 14/04/2022 – 03:30 Patrick Lyoya, a 26-year-old black man, was killed on April 4 by a white police officer after a traffic stop in Michigan. The release of videos from the scene on Wednesday sparked evening protests in Grand Rapids. Several dozen demonstrators gathered on the evening of Wednesday April 13 in … Read more
The police trial for the murder of George Floyd, a symbol of police brutality and law enforcement racism, opened Monday in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Derek Chauvin’s trial opened on Monday morning with a clever zoom out. On the screen of the Hennepin County courtroom, in the heart of Minneapolis, as on those of the Americans – … Read more
abroad Minneapolis Daunte Wright’s death caused massive protests – 16 months in prison for ex-police officer Status: 7:42 p.m | Reading time: 3 minutes Former police officer Kim Potter received a light sentence What: AP A white police officer in the United States is said to have accidentally pulled her pistol instead of a Taser. … Read more
The trial of ex-policeman Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd is cinematic. As soon as it opened on Monday March 29 in Minneapolis, one of the prosecutors presented in its entirety the video, filmed by a young passerby, of the agony of more than nine minutes of the 46-year-old African-American, under the knee … Read more
First modification: 08/09/2021 – 20:14 Hundreds of people gathered on September 8 in downtown Richmond, the capital of the state of Virginia, to witness the removal of a statue of General Robert E. Lee, a former Civil War general. For many, the structure was a symbol of racial injustice, which is why it was the … Read more