Posts Tagged ‘injustice’
Death penalty ‘exonerations’
originally published: 6th July 2009
Recently, I made another reference to the number of Death Row inmates across the country who have been spared execution because of exonerations of one form or another.
The Death Penalty Information Center keeps this count — it is presently 133 — and it has been verified elsewhere in the mainstream [...]
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Tags: injustice
originally published: 2nd July 2009
Anthony Abbate, a Chicago police officer who senselessly assaulted Karolina Obrycka, a 5-foot-3, 115-pound bartender, won’t serve a single day in jail. This incident is the latest chapter in the history of violence by the Chicago Police Department (CPD) against working-class Chicagoans.
The February 2007 beating took place at a bar called [...]
Filed under: Police Brutality & Killings | Leave a Comment
Tags: injustice, unrest protest police brutality
originally published: 1st July 2009
Newly obtained CCTV footage has revealed how police officers carried a bruised and apparently limp man into custody moments before he died, contradicting an initial statement by the investigating police watchdog that he had “walked into the police station” and then collapsed.
The footage, shown to Faisal Al-Ani’s inquest and released by [...]
Filed under: Custody Deaths, Police Brutality & Killings | Leave a Comment
Tags: injustice
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