Police Brutality - Page 2

London chief of police Cressida Dick is facing calls to step down after one of her officers, a firearms specialist known to his friends on the force as “The Rapist”, was jailed for using his police powers to wrongly arrest a woman before raping and murdering her.

Miriela Cruz, a Cuban woman arrested on July 11 for wearing a shirt reading “down with the dictatorship,” described being brutalized and tortured in putrid jail cells in an interview shortly after her release, the Cuban independent site ADN Cuba reported Wednesday.

A 17-year-old girl sentenced to eight months of house arrest for having witnessed protests in Cuba on July 11 told the independent outlet Cubanet in an interview this week that police forced her to strip naked and threatened to subject her to rape by two large men.

The parents of a 16-year-old currently recovering from a gunshot wound incurred in a police interaction during the July 11 protests in Cuba said on Thursday that state security agents had visited the boy without parental consent in his hospital room to threaten him with prison time.

Young Cubans reported increasing pressure from their “Fidelista” parents to obey government orders to participate in violent assaults on suspected protesters, Diario de Cuba revealed Tuesday.

Cuban protesters began to smuggle videos out of the island at a more rapid pace on Thursday over an internet shutdown showing police special forces and plain-clothes paramilitary attacking unarmed civilians.

Burmese poet Khet Thi, an ardent opponent of the junta that seized control of Myanmar from its elected civilian government in February, was arrested by regime forces on Saturday along with his wife Chaw Su.

Police opened fire on a crowd of protesting workers at the construction site of a Chinese-financed power plant in southeastern Bangladesh on Monday, killing at least five people and wounding dozens more.

A police officer brutally beaten by a mob of rioters in the Athens suburb of Nea Smyrni has said he thought he was going die.

London Assembly Member David Kurten said that Mayor Sadiq Khan’s policing policies have resulted in higher crime as well as a noticeable political bias in the handling of protests of differing ideologies.

A 30-year-old Iraqi migrant has been arrested in connection with the brutal beating of a police officer earlier this week during riots following a protest.

Former NYPD Detective Rob O’Donnell was interviewed on a panel moderated by Matt Boyle, Washington Political Editor for Breitbart News Network, about the data on policing and the anti-police rhetoric.

Left-wing Hollywood filmmaker Ava DuVernay will devote her new Spotify podcast to the subjects of police brutality against black people and cops who kill, focusing on what she sees as the lack of accountability in law enforcement.

Jalina Porter, the Biden State Department’s deputy spokesperson, once called the police a “threat” to “national security.”

Jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny got the massive demonstrations he asked for over the weekend, as gigantic crowds assembled in most of Russia’s major cities, prompting an equally massive crackdown from the police against “unsanctioned” public events.

Rioters attacked the car of the King of Belgium while he was inside during protests over the death of “Ibrahima B.” in police custody.

American Skin, the latest film from actor-director Nate Parker, is finally arriving in U.S. cinemas more than a year after it debuted at the Venice Film Festival. The movie depicts a white police officer killing a black teen during a traffic stop, and the subsequent attempt by the boy’s father to exact revenge.

A top human rights envoy said authorities should have avoided the use of excessive force in policing recent demonstrations.

French President Emmanuel Macron’s government will rewrite a controversial law that would have banned members of the public from filming police officers.

At least 81 people were arrested as mass protests and riots broke out on the streets of Paris against a proposed law that would criminalise the filming of police in France.

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari urged citizens in remarks Thursday to “discontinue the street protests” that have engulfed the country in the last two weeks, triggered by police corruption and abuse.

Nigerian paramilitary police reportedly opened fire on protesters in several cities on Tuesday, killing and injuring dozens of people, including bystanders. Eyewitness claimed they also saw military troops in camouflage uniforms shooting at the demonstrators, while the Nigerian Army denied those reports. The demonstrators were protesting against police brutality, particularly by a federal paramilitary unit known as the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS).

Candace Owens described hip hop artist Cardi B as a conservative who is not yet aware of her conservatism.

Rioters in Bogotá, Colombia, ran over a woman with a stolen bus on Thursday on the second day of left-wing violence in response to the police killing of a man for allegedly violating Chinese coronavirus quarantine measures.

Armed rioters shut down streets in Kenosha, Wisconsin on Sunday night as the city fell into chaos after a police-involved shooting earlier in the evening.

Hundreds of protesters against police brutality are expected to shut down a major Chicago highway around noon on Saturday.

The Boston Bruins have publicly admitted to photoshopping a police logo off the shirt of one of their players. Moreover, the team gave a very bizarre reason for why they chose to do it.

British universities have been revealed to be posting advertisements for the Hong Kong Police Force, which critics claim has effectively become a tool forthe Chinese Communist Party to crush pro-democracy dissent in the former British colony.

L.A. Lakers star LeBron James went on a post-game rant on Thursday, demanding that the police officers involved in the death of Breonna Taylor be arrested.

It’s Opening Day for the Tampa Bay Rays, and the organization used their first social media post of this all-important day to call for the arrest of the officers who killed Breonna Taylor.

Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline,” Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) said President Donald Trump ordering the use of federal police officers in Portland, OR, and threatening to do the same in other cities to quell the ongoing protests is “an authoritarian president out of control.”

Hong Kong riot police on Tuesday evening dispersed a protest marking the first anniversary of the Yuen Long railway station attack, a major event in the 2019 protest movement locally known as the “721 Incident.” 

For the first time, the NFL will allow players to display the names or initials of people killed in altercations with the police on their helmets.

The Philadelphia Union donned shirts bearing the names of black people killed by the police for the MLS tournament in Orlando, Florida.

Tuesday at a news conference on systemic racism with Minnesota leaders, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) called for dismantling systems of oppression, including America’s “economy and political systems.”

Police in Portland, Oregon, declared downtown protests as riots on the Fourth of July for the second time in less than 24 hours.