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Gladwyn d’Souza<p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/policebrutality" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>policebrutality</span></a>: <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Settlement" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Settlement</span></a> mandates that <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/NYPD" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NYPD</span></a> refrain from crowd control tactics like kettling &amp; implement a new response system that deemphasizes <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>police</span></a> presence at <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/protests" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>protests</span></a>, deescalate...</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/AbolishQualifiedImmunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AbolishQualifiedImmunity</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/GeorgeFloyd" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GeorgeFloyd</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/CopAGanda" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CopAGanda</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/HumanRightsViolations" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HumanRightsViolations</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/StateSanctionedViolence" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StateSanctionedViolence</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-05/new-york-police-department-to-reform-tactics-in-george-floyd-protest-deal?cmpid=BBD090723_CITYLAB&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_term=230907&amp;utm_campaign=citylabdaily" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bloomberg.com/news/articles/20</span><span class="invisible">23-09-05/new-york-police-department-to-reform-tactics-in-george-floyd-protest-deal?cmpid=BBD090723_CITYLAB&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_term=230907&amp;utm_campaign=citylabdaily</span></a></p>
Gladwyn d’Souza<p>Activist’s toddler is at center of LAPD Commission controversy <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-09-03/activists-toddler-at-the-center-of-lapd-commission-controversy" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">latimes.com/california/story/2</span><span class="invisible">023-09-03/activists-toddler-at-the-center-of-lapd-commission-controversy</span></a> </p><p>The problem isn’t <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/PoliceBrutality" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PoliceBrutality</span></a>: It’s bringing a toddler to hearing where <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/commissioners" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>commissioners</span></a> ignore a string of recent shootings.</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/AbolishQualifiedImmunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AbolishQualifiedImmunity</span></a></p>
Gladwyn d’Souza<p>body-worn <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/cameras" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cameras</span></a> showed Greene being dragged, kicked and punched while he was <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/restrained" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>restrained</span></a> on the roadside. <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Police" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Police</span></a> originally attributed Greene’s <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/death" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>death</span></a> to his car crashing into a tree, but <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/forensic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>forensic</span></a> examinations would later <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/refute" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>refute</span></a> that claim.</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/AbolishThePolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AbolishThePolice</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/AbolishQualifiedImmunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AbolishQualifiedImmunity</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/WitholdingEvidenceIsACrime" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WitholdingEvidenceIsACrime</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/BrokenTaillightPolicing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BrokenTaillightPolicing</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/unarmed" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>unarmed</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/CarCrash" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CarCrash</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/SouthernTrafficStop" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SouthernTrafficStop</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/NoPoliceAccountability" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NoPoliceAccountability</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.thenewsstar.com/story/news/local/2023/08/23/ben-crump-calls-for-justice-department-to-file-charges-in-greene-killing/70653863007/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thenewsstar.com/story/news/loc</span><span class="invisible">al/2023/08/23/ben-crump-calls-for-justice-department-to-file-charges-in-greene-killing/70653863007/</span></a></p>
Gladwyn d’Souza<p>Investigators allowed those misstatements — and others — to stand, despite having nearly a half-hour’s worth of body <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/camera" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>camera</span></a> footage that disproved them. latest in a string of cases where the FID seemed to ignore <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/evidence" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>evidence</span></a> that was potentially damaging to <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/officers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>officers</span></a> who killed people in the line of duty.</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/AbolishQualifiedImmunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AbolishQualifiedImmunity</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/AbolishTheFilibuster" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AbolishTheFilibuster</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/abolishthepolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>abolishthepolice</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ExpandTheCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ExpandTheCourt</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/nypd-mulkeen-friendly-fire-body-cam-footage" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">propublica.org/article/nypd-mu</span><span class="invisible">lkeen-friendly-fire-body-cam-footage</span></a></p>
Gladwyn d’Souza<p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/kenosha-black-applebees-suspects-bathroom-fe581d4434ab7425f4747505220ba3a4" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/kenosha-bla</span><span class="invisible">ck-applebees-suspects-bathroom-fe581d4434ab7425f4747505220ba3a4</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/abolishthepolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>abolishthepolice</span></a>: a <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Kenosha" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Kenosha</span></a> officer punching a <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Black" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Black</span></a> man the officer mistakenly believed was involved in a hit-and-run crash.</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/AbolishQualifiedImmunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AbolishQualifiedImmunity</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ReformTheMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ReformTheMedia</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/PoliceGangs" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PoliceGangs</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/statesanctionedviolence" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>statesanctionedviolence</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/PriveledgeWitness" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PriveledgeWitness</span></a></p>
Gladwyn d’Souza<p><a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2023/8/9/michael_jenkins_eddie_parker_police_torture" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">democracynow.org/2023/8/9/mich</span><span class="invisible">ael_jenkins_eddie_parker_police_torture</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/AbolishThePolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AbolishThePolice</span></a>: the “Goon Squad,” have pleaded <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/guilty" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>guilty</span></a> to raiding a home and <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/torturing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>torturing</span></a> two <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Black" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Black</span></a> men, on <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/falsecharges" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>falsecharges</span></a>, earlier this year, after first trying to <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/coverup" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>coverup</span></a> their actions. <br /><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/AbolishQualifiedImmunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AbolishQualifiedImmunity</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ReformTheMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ReformTheMedia</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/OnTheCourthouseLawn" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OnTheCourthouseLawn</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/StateSanctionedViolence" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StateSanctionedViolence</span></a></p>
Gladwyn d’Souza<p><a href="https://www.kcur.org/2023-08-09/9-years-after-michael-browns-killing-fergusons-sacred-ground-evokes-calls-for-progress" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">kcur.org/2023-08-09/9-years-af</span><span class="invisible">ter-michael-browns-killing-fergusons-sacred-ground-evokes-calls-for-progress</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/JohnLewisVotingRightsAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JohnLewisVotingRightsAct</span></a>: community members are urging residents to <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/elect" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>elect</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/leaders" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>leaders</span></a> who will <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/protectBlacklives" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>protectBlacklives</span></a></p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/EnforceThe15th" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EnforceThe15th</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/michaelbrown" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>michaelbrown</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/abolishthepolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>abolishthepolice</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/AbolishQualifiedImmunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AbolishQualifiedImmunity</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/transparency" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>transparency</span></a></p>
Gladwyn d’Souza<p><a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/beyond-cultural-competence/202307/can-the-stress-of-biased-policing-cause-physical-disability" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">psychologytoday.com/us/blog/be</span><span class="invisible">yond-cultural-competence/202307/can-the-stress-of-biased-policing-cause-physical-disability</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/abolishthepolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>abolishthepolice</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/AbolishQualifiedImmunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AbolishQualifiedImmunity</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/SCOTUStermlimits" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SCOTUStermlimits</span></a> </p><p>The Washington Post launched its Police Shooting Database in 2014, after police in Ferguson, Missouri shot <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/MichaelBrown" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MichaelBrown</span></a>, 24; before then, such specific <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>data</span></a> was <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/inaccessible" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>inaccessible</span></a> to the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/public" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>public</span></a>. We now know that U.S. police shoot roughly 1,000 people per year—the highest rate among “developed” nations—and Black Americans constitute at least 25 to 50 percent of victims, despite comprising only 12.4 percent of the U.S. population.</p>