police brutality
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FBI Might Shut Down Its Police Use-of-Force Database Because, Surprise, Cops Aren’t Participating
If you’ve watched TV, read a newspaper, or used the internet in the last several years, you may have noticed lots of police departments embroiled in violent misconduct scandals — the likes of which seem to suggest that too many cops are far too eager to unholster their weapon or put someone in a headlock.
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The LAPD Asked Ring Owners to Hand Over Footage of BLM Protesters
The Los Angeles Police Department has asked locals to turn over footage their Amazon Ring doorbell cameras may have picked up of Black Lives Matter protests, according to a new report by the Intercept.
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Belarus Turned Off the Internet. Its Citizens Hot-Wired It.
In early August, Belarus — known as Europe’s last dictatorship — went almost entirely offline for 72 hours. On Wednesday August 26, for approximately one hour, Belarus shut down key parts of the capital’s internet once again; allegedly, the order had come directly from official state bodies.
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Police Tried to Take a Protester’s Prosthetic Legs After Macing Him, Witnesses Say
After a directive from Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther to “immediately stop the use of tear gas and pepper spray” on peaceful protesters, a rally in Ohio’s capital appears to have included not only the use of such chemical agents, but also, according to eyewitnesses, involved uniformed officers removing and attempting to confiscate the prosthetic limbs…