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IFJ Condemns Killing of Egyptian Journalist in Damanhur
2013-08-21
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists has condemned the killing on Monday night, 19 August, of Egyptian daily Al Ahram''s bureau regional chief, Tamer Abdel Raouf, shot by soldiers at an army ch...

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As Police Killings of Minorities Mount, Attacks on Police Like the One in Dallas, While Awful, Are Also Sadly Predictable
Lindorff, Dave
Article
2016
CounterPunch
The tragedy that is America has deepened with the news of a sniper attack targeting police in Dallas during a protest march and rally against police brutality and killings of black people in that city...
The Bizarre Compulsion of Black Men to "Reach for their Waistbands"
Waistband-Reaching Syndrome Could Get You Killed
Eskow, John
Article
2014
CounterPunch
If police accounts are to be believed, there is a bizarre urge among young, unarmed black men to provoke their own murder by "reaching for their waistbands" when cops are aiming service revolvers at t...
Charged with murder, but they didn’t kill anyone -- police did
Flowers, Alison; Macareg, Sarah
Article
2016
Chicago Reader
A Reader investigation found ten cases since 2011 where police killed a civilian in Chicago and charged an accomplice with the murder.
The City That Bleeds
Freddie Gray and the makings of an American uprising
Jackson, Lawrence
Article
2016
Harper's
The killing of black teenager Freddie Gray by six police officers resulted in a civic uprising, and spotlights a history of brutality and bloodshed by police in the city of Baltimore.
Connexions Library: Human Rights and Civil Liberties Focus
Website
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on civil liberties and human rights.
Content Magazine - Number 103
January 1980
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1980
Cops Are Now Less Cautious Than Soldiers In Iraq
Shooting Mirian Carey
Carp, Jonathan
Article
2013
CounterPunch
Police militarization is a hot topic lately, but American police are beyond anything contemplated by the American military. American police today appear unwilling to accept any risk whatsoever and see...
First of Its Kind Study Shows 55,400 People Hospitalized or Killed by US Cops in a Single Year
Gardner, Justin
Article
2017
The Free Thought Project
The authors of a study which examined police interactions with the public conclude that alarmingly high numbers reflect an "excess exposure" of people to police violence.
For every 1,000 people killed by police, one officer is convicted of a crime
Shaun, King
Article
2015
Daily Kos
Out of thousands of people killed by police in the United States since 2005, only 11 officers have been convicted of any crimes.
Guidelines for police in dealing with mentally ill people
Diemer, Ulli
Article
2018
Radical Digressions
An investigative report report by the CBC shows that more than 460 people in Canada have "died in encounters with police" since the year 2000.
IFJ Condemns Killing of Egyptian Journalist in Damanhur
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Article
2013
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists has condemned the killing on Monday night, 19 August, of Egyptian daily Al Ahram''s bureau regional chief, Tamer Abdel Raouf, shot by soldiers at an army ch...
An Immediate End to Police Brutality and Murder of Black People by Police
Jacob, Ron
Article
2016
CounterPunch
The Black Panther Party remains unfulfilled fifty years after the Party's founding. This truth is a tragic acknowledgement of both the failure of US capitalism to resolve its greatest disgrace and an ...
'Israel is a terrorist state'
Cook, Jonathan
Article
2015
Jonathan Cook's Blog
The violence rocking the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and now Gaza is on the verge of spilling into Israel, Palestinian leaders in Israel warned. A wave of unrest has swept Palestinian towns in ...
Jamaica's Culture of Fear Allows Police to Get Away With Murder
Tillotson, Louise
Article
2016
Inter Press Service (IPS)
In the past decade, the Caribbean island nation's police have killed more than 2,000 people - until recently an average of four people every single week, mostly young men in inner-city, marginalized c...
Journalists Killed since 1992
Article
2009
Committee to Protect Journalists
A database of more than 700 journalists who have been murdered or killed on dangerous assignments since 1992. Interactive maps, timelines, and statistical breakdowns providing analysis by country, yea...
Kill a Black Kid and Get Rich
An American Disgrace
Caccioppoli, Mike
Article
2014
CounterPunch
This is America folks. Where you can kill a black kid and justified or not (NOT!) you will then become a millionaire through interviews and book deals and film rights. This is your capitalist system a...
Killer Instincts: When Police Become Judge, Jury and Executioner
Whitehead, John W.
Article
2016
CounterPunch
Those responsible for this policing crisis are none other than the police unions that are helping police officers evade accountability for wrongdoing; the police academies that are teaching police off...
The Legacy of Forest Defender Chut Wutty
Lambrick, Fran
Article
2012
New Internationalist
On the life, work, and death of the late Cambodian forest activist Chut Wutty, shot and killed at a logging site by military police.
Marikana, Gaza, Ferguson - 'You Should Think of Them Always As Armed'
Pithouse, Richard
Article
2014
AllAfrica
In colonial wars the occupying power invariably reaches a point where it has to acknowledge that its true enemy is not a minority - devil worshipers, communists, fanatics or terrorists - subject to ex...
The mass graves of Kashmir
India's dirty war unmasked
Scott-Clark, Cathy
Article
2012
The Guardian
For 22 years this contested region has endured a regime of torture and disappeared civilians. Now a local laywer is discovering their unmarked graves and challenging India's abuses.
A memorial to killed journalists, a call to action
Article
2009
Committee to Protect Journalists
More than 500 journalists have been targeted for murder, our research shows, and nearly nine in 10 of these slayings go unpunished. Another 200 journalists have been killed in combat or on dangerous a...
Most Canadians killed in police encounters since 2000 had mental health or substance abuse issues
More than 460 people have died in encounters with police in Canada since 2000
Nicholson, Katie; Marcoux, Jacques
Article
2018
CBC
More than 460 people have died in encounters with police across Canada since the year 2000, and a substantial majority suffered from mental health problems or symptoms of drug abuse, a CBC News invest...
The Nature of Police, the Role of the Left
Learning From Ferguson
Gelderloos, Peter
Article
2014
CounterPunch
Iit would be hard to deny that the police are a racist institution par excellence. They kill young Black, Latino, and Native people at a disproportionately higher rate than white youth, and the instit...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 21, 2014
Killings by Police
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2014
Connexions
Topic of the week is Killings by Police. Articles on the way the Ebola crisis illuminates the moral bankruptcy of capitalism; Responding the capitalist crisis, in 1914 and 2014; Globaling Gaza: Israel...
Rising Up Against Police Violence, From the Black Panthers to #BlackLivesMatter
Thompson, Juan
Article
2015
The Intercept
I turned away more than once while watching Stanley Nelson's documentary The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution. I averted my eyes from the screen when FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's nefarious...
Seeds of Fire
A People's Chronology
Diemer, Ulli
Article
2012
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Recalling events that happened on this day in history. Memories of struggle, resistance and persistence.
The Shoot First Mentality of American Police
Ferguson, Reconsidered
Roberts, Paul Craig
Article
2014
CounterPunch
The US justice system is no longer concerned with justice, but with the careers of prosecutors, punishing the powerless, and protecting the powerful. As justice has largely departed the justice syste...
13 protesters against copper plant in India killed after police open fire
Shinde, Mrinalini; Bokil, Ameya
Article
2018
The Ecologist
Public protests at the copper smelter plant of Sterlite Industries in the town of Thoothukudi in Tamil Nadu, India, were met with police fire during the last two days, with 13 protesters killed and an...
Two justice systems?
Letter to the editor
Diemer, Ulli
Article
2016
Radical Digressions
It seems that we have two justice systems: one for the police, and one for the rest of us.
The uncounted: why the US can't keep track of people killed by police
McCarthy, Tom
Article
2015
The Guardian
After a year of high-profile police killings, calls for a national database have gained traction. But how would that work? Tom McCarthy investigates the challenges for law enforcement and government o...
US: The State Murder of an Activist
Podur, Justin
Article
2015
teleSUR
The murder of Sandra Bland, an activist with the Black Lives Matter movement, exposes the impunity of U.S. police.
Waco Siege
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
The Waco Siege began on February 28, 1993, and ended violently 50 days later on April 19.The siege began when the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) attempted to ...
Where's the Body Count from Shootings by the Police?
Protecting Killer Cops
Bovard, James
Article
2013
Counterpunch
It estimated that in the United States in 2011 police shot more than 1,100 people, killing 607. However, the government refuses to keep track of the killings, so the exact number is unknown, and may w...
Why Police Kill So Often
Finamore, Carl
Article
2015
CounterPunch
The FBI reports 404 civilians were killed by police in 2011. All were listed as "justifiable homicides." Under more intense questioning, it was then revealed that figures are not actually kept for "un...

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Content Magazine - Number 103
January 1980
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1980
Seeds of Fire
A People's Chronology
Diemer, Ulli
Article
2012
Recalling events that happened on this day in history. Memories of struggle, resistance and persistence.


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