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  1. As Police Killings of Minorities Mount, Attacks on Police Like the One in Dallas, While Awful, Are Also Sadly Predictable
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    The tragedy that is America has deepened with the news of a sniper attack targeting police in Dallas during a protest march and rally against police brutality and killings of black people in that city. The murder of anybody, whether it's a police officer or someone who is simply stopped by a cop for a minor traffic violation and is then shot because a jumpy officer mistakes reaching for a wallet to be reaching for a gun, as happened just two days ago in Minnesota, is a dreadful thing.
  2. The Bizarre Compulsion of Black Men to "Reach for their Waistbands"
    Waistband-Reaching Syndrome Could Get You Killed

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    If police accounts are to be believed, there is a bizarre urge among young, unarmed black men to provoke their own murder by "reaching for their waistbands" when cops are aiming service revolvers at them.
  3. Charged with murder, but they didn’t kill anyone -- police did
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    A Reader investigation found ten cases since 2011 where police killed a civilian in Chicago and charged an accomplice with the murder.
  4. The City That Bleeds
    Freddie Gray and the makings of an American uprising

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    The killing of black teenager Freddie Gray by six police officers resulted in a civic uprising, and spotlights a history of brutality and bloodshed by police in the city of Baltimore.
  5. Columbine Mine massacre
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    A conflict in which police and mine guards attacked striking coal miners with machine guns.
  6. Connexions Library: Human Rights and Civil Liberties Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on civil liberties and human rights.
  7. Cops Are Now Less Cautious Than Soldiers In Iraq
    Shooting Mirian Carey

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Police militarization is a hot topic lately, but American police are beyond anything contemplated by the American military. American police today appear unwilling to accept any risk whatsoever and seem willing to kill anyone and anything that could possibly be seen as a threat.
  8. Estevan Coal Miners' Strike, 1931
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia

    Resource Type: Article
    A strike which led to the murder of three miners by the RCMP.
  9. First of Its Kind Study Shows 55,400 People Hospitalized or Killed by US Cops in a Single Year
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    The authors of a study which examined police interactions with the public conclude that alarmingly high numbers reflect an "excess exposure" of people to police violence.
  10. For every 1,000 people killed by police, one officer is convicted of a crime
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Out of thousands of people killed by police in the United States since 2005, only 11 officers have been convicted of any crimes.
  11. Guidelines for police in dealing with mentally ill people
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    An investigative report report by the CBC shows that more than 460 people in Canada have "died in encounters with police" since the year 2000.
  12. IFJ Condemns Killing of Egyptian Journalist in Damanhur
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    The International Federation of Journalists has condemned the killing on Monday night, 19 August, of Egyptian daily Al Ahram''s bureau regional chief, Tamer Abdel Raouf, shot by soldiers at an army check point
  13. An Immediate End to Police Brutality and Murder of Black People by Police
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    The Black Panther Party remains unfulfilled fifty years after the Party's founding. This truth is a tragic acknowledgement of both the failure of US capitalism to resolve its greatest disgrace and an admission that it may not be able to. The unpunished murders of Black men by police are just the most graphic proof of this truth.
  14. 'Israel is a terrorist state'
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The violence rocking the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and now Gaza is on the verge of spilling into Israel, Palestinian leaders in Israel warned. A wave of unrest has swept Palestinian towns in Israel over recent days, with repeated clashes with Israeli police in Nazareth, Jaffa, Lod, Ramle, Taibeh, Sakhnin, Rahat, Kfar Qassem and elsewhere. Dozens of protesters have been arrested.
  15. Jamaica's Culture of Fear Allows Police to Get Away With Murder
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    In the past decade, the Caribbean island nation's police have killed more than 2,000 people - until recently an average of four people every single week, mostly young men in inner-city, marginalized communities.
  16. Kill a Black Kid and Get Rich
    An American Disgrace

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    This is America folks. Where you can kill a black kid and justified or not (NOT!) you will then become a millionaire through interviews and book deals and film rights. This is your capitalist system at work. No laws that make this illegal. A cop can actually kill someone on purpose if he wants, because cops get away with almost anything, with the knowledge that they can then quit their awful jobs and become rich.
  17. Killer Instincts: When Police Become Judge, Jury and Executioner
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Those responsible for this policing crisis are none other than the police unions that are helping police officers evade accountability for wrongdoing; the police academies that are teaching police officers that their lives are more valuable than the lives of those they serve; a corporate military sector that is making a killing by selling military-grade weapons, equipment, technology and tactical training to domestic police agencies; a political establishment that is dependent on campaign support and funding from the powerful police unions; and a police state that is transforming police officers into extensions of the military in order to extend its reach and power.
  18. Lattimer massacre
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    The killing of 19 unarmed striking immigrant anthracite coal miners at the Lattimer mine near Hazleton, Pennsylvania, on September 10, 1897, by a sheriff's posse.
  19. Leadville Colorado, Miners' Strike
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Occurred as a result of rapid industrialization and consolidation of the mining industry.
  20. Lessons of the Civil Rights Movement (Part One)
    Police Terror and Black Oppression

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Police reform is a hoax and a hustle. Federal investigations go nowhere and the Democrats are simply the soft cops of the capitalist system. There is no road to black liberation and the liberation of all working people short of workers revolution.
  21. Let the Fire Burn
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2013
    A history of the conflict of the City of Philadelphia and the Black Liberation organization, MOVE, that led to the disastrously violent final confrontation in 1985.
  22. Marikana, Gaza, Ferguson - 'You Should Think of Them Always As Armed'
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    In colonial wars the occupying power invariably reaches a point where it has to acknowledge that its true enemy is not a minority - devil worshipers, communists, fanatics or terrorists - subject to external and evil manipulation, but the people as a whole. Once this point is reached every colonised person is taken as a potential combatant and the neighbourhood and the home are cast as legitimate sites of combat.
  23. The mass graves of Kashmir
    India's dirty war unmasked

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    For 22 years this contested region has endured a regime of torture and disappeared civilians. Now a local laywer is discovering their unmarked graves and challenging India's abuses.
  24. Most Canadians killed in police encounters since 2000 had mental health or substance abuse issues
    More than 460 people have died in encounters with police in Canada since 2000

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    More than 460 people have died in encounters with police across Canada since the year 2000, and a substantial majority suffered from mental health problems or symptoms of drug abuse, a CBC News investigation has found.
  25. The Murder of Walter Scott
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    A video capturing the murder of Walter Scott, an unarmed black man killed by a white police officer, has gone virtal.
  26. The Nature of Police, the Role of the Left
    Learning From Ferguson

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Iit would be hard to deny that the police are a racist institution par excellence. They kill young Black, Latino, and Native people at a disproportionately higher rate than white youth, and the institution itself descended from the patrols created to capture fugitive slaves in the South and police urban immigrants in the North.
  27. New Orleans' Police Death Squads
    Against The Current vol. 151

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    An interview with Malcolm Suber, a New Orleans community activist and fighter for justice, and a former candidate for city council. Against the Current asked him to comment on the struggle around murders by police during Hurricane Katrina and the ongoing fight over police brutality.
  28. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 21, 2014
    Killings by Police

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2014
    Topic of the week is Killings by Police. Articles on the way the Ebola crisis illuminates the moral bankruptcy of capitalism; Responding the capitalist crisis, in 1914 and 2014; Globaling Gaza: Israel's leading role in undemining international law; and Marinaleda, a town in Spain attempting to create alternatives based on democracy, co-operation, and mutual aid. Group of the Week is Librarians and Archivists with Palestine.
  29. Race, class and police murder in America
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    In the aftermath of the mass shooting of police officers in Dallas, Texas on July 7, 2016, the American media and political establishment has sought to portray the police killings of unarmed people and widespread protests against police violence as proof of deepening and unbridgeable racial divisions in the United States.
  30. Resisting State Violence
    Justice Or Just Us

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    None of the ambiguities that surrounded Mike Brown’s killing are present in the grotesque spectacle of Eric Garner’s murder. By now the whole world has watched the man die at the hands of police without betraying a trace of belligerence. The failure to indict Pantaleo and the officers who pinned Garner down as he repeatedly yelled, “I can’t breathe” is a reminder that antiblackness is not a technical problem and therefore cannot be remedied with a technical solution.
  31. The Return of the Albuquerque Death Squads
    Police War on the Poor

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    APD is at war with the poor because it has come to equate any expression of poverty or drug addiction not as an effect of structural inequality, but rather as another opportunity to dispose of what its officers call “human waste.” Like elsewhere being poor, suffering from a mentally illness or battling a drug addiction is a crime.
  32. Rising Up Against Police Violence, From the Black Panthers to #BlackLivesMatter
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    I turned away more than once while watching Stanley Nelson's documentary The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution. I averted my eyes from the screen when FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's nefarious mug first appeared. I turned away once more when the charismatic and admirable Fred Hampton was first shown, knowing that eventually he would be murdered by Chicago police and federal agents.
  33. Robot Cops Are Racist, Too
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    As an institution, the police is racist through and through -- irrespective of whether or not particular cops harbor racist views. This is because, among other reasons, as an institution the police is an appendage of the larger institution of property. And property, in the US at the very least, is inextricable from racist dispossessions, and reproductions, of wealth. That is, in addition to manifesting other aspects of domination, property is racist.
  34. Rothbury Riot
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    An incident in which police shot into a crowd of locked-out miners in the New South Wales.
  35. Seeds of Fire
    A People's Chronology

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Recalling events that happened on this day in history. Memories of struggle, resistance and persistence.
  36. The Shoot First Mentality of American Police
    Ferguson, Reconsidered

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The US justice system is no longer concerned with justice, but with the careers of prosecutors, punishing the powerless, and protecting the powerful. As justice has largely departed the justice system, it is hardly surprising that police lack any concept of justice.
  37. Stolen Lives - Killed by Law Enforcement
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    Stolen Lives documents over 2000 cases of people killed by law enforcement agents throughout the U.S. since 1990. Information includes the victims' names, ages, race/nationality, date killed, location, and a description of the circumstances surrounding their deaths.
  38. 13 protesters against copper plant in India killed after police open fire
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    Public protests at the copper smelter plant of Sterlite Industries in the town of Thoothukudi in Tamil Nadu, India, were met with police fire during the last two days, with 13 protesters killed and and hundreds injured.
  39. Two justice systems?
    Letter to the editor

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    It seems that we have two justice systems: one for the police, and one for the rest of us.
  40. The uncounted: why the US can't keep track of people killed by police
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    After a year of high-profile police killings, calls for a national database have gained traction. But how would that work? Tom McCarthy investigates the challenges for law enforcement and government officials alike.
  41. US: The State Murder of an Activist
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The murder of Sandra Bland, an activist with the Black Lives Matter movement, exposes the impunity of U.S. police.
  42. Video of Shooting Caught Police Propaganda Machine in Action
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    A video supplied to The New York Times, showing the shooting death of 50-year-old Walter Scott at the hands of a South Carolina police officer, appears on first viewing to be the latest example of an unarmed black person killed unnecessarily by a white cop.
  43. The Whack 'Em and Stack 'Em Mentality of American Cops
    Killers on the Road

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Killings by police are not a negligible proportion of the United States' firearms death toll. The public apprehension that cops are often borderline psychotic, hair-trigger-ready to open fire on the slightest pretext, virtually immune from serious sanction, is growing apace, fueled by such incidents as the dog slaughter on an interstate.
  44. Where's the Body Count from Shootings by the Police?
    Protecting Killer Cops

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    It estimated that in the United States in 2011 police shot more than 1,100 people, killing 607. However, the government refuses to keep track of the killings, so the exact number is unknown, and may well be higher.
  45. Why Police Kill So Often
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The FBI reports 404 civilians were killed by police in 2011. All were listed as "justifiable homicides." Under more intense questioning, it was then revealed that figures are not actually kept for "unjustified" police murders and, remarkably, their statistics rely exclusively on incidents self-reported by the cops.
  46. Why We Should Not Forget Miriam Carey
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    The ignominious and unnecessary public killing of Miriam Carey should be a human marker that triggers our cultural meaning machine to honestly consider what’s wrong with the picture of a howling pack of cops shooting down a troubled young mother … like a dog.


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