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New York rapper Fat Joe posted a pointed tweet Friday criticizing San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s method of protesting police brutality, calling it a disrespectful display against United States soldiers.

Embattled San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick has caused quite the controversy in his protest against police brutality, choosing for the second weekend in a row not to stand during the singing of “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

Monday, ESPN personality Stephen A. Smith said on “First Take,” while discussing San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s decision to sit during the national anthem, that he hopes athletes and media are just as willing to bring attention to black-on-black

A leading Dallas police officers association will be able to provide substantial financial support to the families that lost loved ones during the Black Lives Matter protest in early July with the help of a veteran-founded apparel company.

Thursday on Fox Sports 1’s “Speak for Yourself,” co-host Jason Whitlock weighed in on the recent outcry against police brutality, calling the movement of calling for change in the system a “lie.” Speaking as someone who has lost a family member to

Actor and LGBT activist George Takei said the same “attitudes” that resulted in thousands of Japanese Americans to be forced into internment camps during World War II, are the same attitudes that make law enforcement officers shoot black men.

Jay-Z released his first new music in three years late Thursday night with the anti-police brutality anthem “Spiritual,” just after the shooting deaths of five police officers in Dallas, Texas Thursday night and the police-involved shooting deaths of two African-American men earlier in the week.

Wednesday’s episode of Black-ish confronts police brutality in America, the criminal justice system, and the difficult discussions and decisions every black parent must face in a country where “the system is rigged against us.”

An upcoming episode of ABC’s “Black-ish” will take on the issue of police brutality in the black community.

A vigil for Sandra Bland in New York’s Union Square Park Wednesday night skirted into conspiracy theory territory as protesters carried signs saying Bland had been “killed” and speakers suggested the failure to charge anyone in her death was a sign that justice had not been served.

Yesterday, we reported on the untimely death of open source software pioneer Ian Murdock, who died in sensational circumstances after a string of emotionally charged posts on social media in which he threatened suicide and claimed to have been the victim of a vicious incident of police brutality.

Ian Murdock, a pioneer of Open Source software who created the Debian project, has passed away at 42 after a series of sensational public claims in which he alleged he was the victim of a serious incident of police brutality, threatened to commit suicide, and accused another Twitter user of wanting him dead.

In an extended interview on Meet the Press, film director Spike Lee said he wanted his new film, “Chi-Raq,” to touch on “black-on-black violence” and make the point that “it’s not always policemen” killing black people.

At least one police union has seemingly abandoned its plans to boycott Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight in the wake of the director’s participation in an anti-police brutality rally in October and his subsequent escalating rhetoric against law enforcement.

On December 26 The Washington Post reported that police shot and killed 965 people in 2015.

In a recent interview, longtime comedian and actor Eddie Griffin said he would vote for anyone but billionaire Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump, and added that he is tired of “professional politicians” like Hillary Clinton.

Quentin Tarantino continues to stand by anti-police comments he made earlier this fall in a new interview, saying he “completely rejects” the “bad apples” argument that only a small number of police officers behave inappropriately on the job.

Lost in the media’s reportage of Quentin Tarantino’s using rhetoric scripted by Black Lives Matter is the fact that the Rise Up October event at which Tarantino spoke was organized by revolutionary communists who advocate the armed overthrow of the United States of America.

Director Quentin Tarantino defended his comments that have triggered boycotts from police unions, and argued police brutality “ultimately what I feel is a problem of white supremacy in this country” on Wednesday’s “All In with Chris Hayes” on MSNBC. Tarantino explained

Comedian Bill Maher is being criticized by left-leaning pundits and activists for saying a lack of parenting might be a contributing factor to many cases of alleged police brutality.

In an appearance on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends” on Monday, Milwaukee Co., WI Sheriff David Clarke sounded of on a wave of protests throughout the country aimed at police for alleged police brutality led by the Black Lives

Director Quentin Tarantino joined hundreds of demonstrators in a a march against police brutality on Saturday in Washington Square Park in New York.

Usher, Nas and Bibi Bourelly have dropped a highly interactive video for their new song “Chains.”

It took a New York jury only 40 minutes to reject claims of police brutality by a Florida woman who gained fame during the 2011 Occupy Wall Street demonstrations when she abandoned her husband and four children to take up with the occupation of Zuccotti Park.

An illegal immigrant who is suing the Knoxville Police is now being charged with assaulting officers, according to WBIR-TV.

A six-minute obscenity-laced attack on black thuggery has gone viral and was viewed 1.6 million times in less than 24 hours.

On June 7, online video gamer Jericho Tucker published via YouTube a confrontation between police officers and Sixth Street party-goers in downtown Austin. The clip has been cited by many viewers as an example of police brutality.

American Lillian Burnett of Oakland, California is four years into a medical school in the communist country of Cuba, where she says she has been taught that physicians have a role in gun violence and police brutality issues.

Monday, MSNBC cut into an already-in-progress press conference about the Texas police officer who has been suspended after video of him roughly taking down a teenage girl in a bikini at a pool party emerged and Rev. Ronald Wright, executive director

The Los Angeles police department’s investigative watchdog commission determined that two white police officers were justified in fatally shooting a 25-year-old black man, Ezell Ford, on August 11 2014.

Just as Martin O’Malley, Baltimore’s Democrat ex-mayor, prepares to announce a run for the White house, he faces devastating and detailed criticism for his role in creating the mess in Baltimore from a noted expert on the city: David Simon, reporter, author, and creator of the seminal HBO crime drama The Wire.

VENICE, California — Close to 400 people convened on Thursday night at Westminster Elementary School in Venice for an emotion-laden town hall meeting about the death of an unarmed homeless man who was shot and killed in a confrontation with the

Tuesday on the Senate floor, Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) addressed the charges against police officers in the death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore. He said, “There is no epidemic of police criminality in this country.” “It’s true that there are

Tuesday at the White House daily briefing, White House correspondent and political analyst for The Daily Banter, liberal commentator Tommy Christopher, asked how the White House can justify calling the estimated  900,000 sworn law enforcement officers  serving in the United

Now that the Obama administration has subtly encouraged critics of police to vent their fury, California legislators have initiated a flurry of at least 20 proposals–according to a count by the Los Angeles Times–to shackle the police and ensure that they are being zealously scrutinized.

JERUSALEM, Israel — Thousands of Ethiopian immigrants to Israel continued their nationwide protest against police brutality on Sunday evening, shutting down a major highway for three hours and demonstrating in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square. As in protests last Thursday in Jerusalem, the Tel Aviv protest turned violent, and 27 law enforcement officers were injured, according to Ynet. The protests were sparked by video of two policemen beating an Ethiopian soldier in uniform.