Black Police Officers Aren’t Colorblind. They’re Infected With Anti-Black Bias.
Rashad Shabazz explores the societal conditions in which Black police officers could brutalize another Black man.
Rashad Shabazz explores the societal conditions in which Black police officers could brutalize another Black man.
“Many people had been working tirelessly on the removal of that statue for some time, and I did not consult with them,” Borenstein writes.
“A world without Black Twitter is a world void of robust, rapid and authentic information sharing on police brutality,” Deion Hawkins writes.
Gulfport Police Department transferred the case involving the officer who shot Jaheim McMillan on Oct. 6, 2022, of an officer-involved shooting on Oct. 6, 2022, to the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation.
Former Jackson police officer Anthony Fox will serve up to five years in state prison for the manslaughter of George Robinson, 62. Earlier this month, a jury found Fox guilty of culpable negligence manslaughter in the 2019 beating death of Robinson.
Holli Johannes founded the “Stitch Their Name Memorial Project,” currently on display at the Margaret Walker Center on the Jackson State University campus, which honors African Americans whose lives were lost to police and others due to racial hate and bigotry.
For 126 years, a banner based upon the Confederacy’s first national flag and the Confederate battle flag waved atop poles and government buildings, reminding residents of the Blackest state in the nation that white supremacy still ruled in Mississippi.
A Hinds County judge today dismissed all charges against two of three Jackson Police Department officers charged with the second-degree murder of George Robinson in January 2019. Robinson, 62, died days after JPD officers beat him in the Washington Addition neighborhood of the capital city.
On Wednesday, the Petal Area Chamber of Commerce pronounced Officer Aaron Jernigan, the “2020 Officer of the Year.” The award comes on the heels of last year’s protests over his fatal 2017 shooting of Marc Davis.
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