LAPD officer Eden Medina killed Omar Gonzalez and Jesse Romero less than two weeks apart this summer. A new Los Angeles Times article tries to answer why Medina was back on the job so soon after the first shooting.
Danner was killed by an NYPD police officer this week. She writes: “[The mentally ill are] asked to accept less than our natural rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
The videos seem to show that Braziel and Small—two of the latest Black men to die from police gunshots—were less of a threat to officers than previously reported.
Reynolds, who livestreamed a video showing her partner dying from a Minnesota police officer’s bullets, spoke out about the killing and her arrest at an impromptou press conference this morning.
A new report from The Daily Beast cites e-mails between city lawyers and a representative of Laquan McDonald’s family that show that Rahm Emanuel knew what was on the grisly video and that the city tried to force the McDonald estate to keep it confidential as a condition of a $5 million settlement.
People are using hashtags such as #NotOneDime and #RedistributeThePain to indict Black Friday consumerism in the wake of ongoing systemic violence against African-Americans.
Investigators from the Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Department turned over their findings in the fatal police shooting of Rice, 12, to the country prosecutor. The report has not been released to the public.
