Police violence

“Attempted Murder Allegations Arise After Police Vehicle Hits Scooter in Paris”

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Several testimonies, quoted by Streetpress and Mediapart, assure that the police “voluntarily” hit a scooter on April 13 in Paris. The families of the minors, one of whom is seriously injured, filed a complaint for attempted murder on Monday. Seventeen investigations had already been entrusted to the IGPN for accusations of police violence during the … Read more

Minister of Interior announces plan to dissolve legal support group for arrested demonstrators: Defco

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Questioned by the RN, the Minister of the Interior claims to want to dissolve the Collective Defense, an independent group of legal support for demonstrators arrested during social movements. Towards a second procedure of dissolution in a few days after that of the Uprisings of the Earth. The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, announced … Read more

Black Lives Matter: New York City will pay millions of dollars to compensate victims of police violence

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New York City will pay more than $20,000 to more than 300 victims of a controversial police operation in the Bronx in June 2020, during anti-racism protests following the death of George Floyd. Between six and seven million dollars. This is, in total, the amount that New York City should pay in compensation to some … Read more

In Toulouse, a sociologist victim of police violence prosecuted for “contempt” and “violence” – Liberation

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Researcher Mathieu Rigouste, a specialist in police violence, himself filed a complaint for “violence” against the police. After ten years of proceedings, the judgment of his trial falls on Tuesday. This did not change his view of things, quite the contrary. Mathieu Rigouste, 41, an independent researcher in social sciences, particularly on police violence, has … Read more

California police kill a black man in a wheelchair after shooting him 10 times

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American society is still shocked for the death of Tire Nichols, the man whom five police officers from Memphis (Tennessee) stopped for a traffic violation and dealt a fatal beating. However, now another event has occurred that has only increased the shock, the anger, the indignation: the police in Huntington Park (a city south of … Read more

Joe Biden calls for calm after the fatal arrest of an African-American in Memphis – Liberation

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Anger mounts after the death of Tire Nichols, following his brutal arrest by five police officers, also African-Americans, in early January in the big city of Tennessee. The officers were charged Thursday. “Anger is understandable, but violence is never acceptable.” US President Joe Biden has somehow tried to call for calm on Thursday evening as … Read more

Eric Adams, an “American dream” for the mayor of New York

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Elected mayor of New York on November 3, Eric Adams officially takes office on Saturday. A consecration for this 61-year-old African American, a former police officer from a poor family in the Brooklyn district. Democrat Eric Adams is officially invested mayor of New Yorksaturday 1and January. At the age of 61, he thus becomes the … Read more

Berlin: Police brutal operation leading to death highlights escalating police violence

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On 6 October Kupa Ilunga Medard Mutombo died in the Charité university hospital. He was the victim of massive police violence. The incident occurred on September 14, when three police officers had to transfer the schizophrenic resident of the Spandau sheltered housing “Hostel for the homeless and mentally disabled” to a psychiatric hospital, in accordance … Read more

The spread of protests in Iran after the death of the young woman, Mahsa Amini, and the possibility of interrupting the internet service for “security reasons”

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Demonstrations continued in Iran for the fifth consecutive night to protest the death of a young woman who was arrested by the “moral police” who monitor women’s compliance with prescribed clothing in the Islamic Republic, the Islamic Republic reported Wednesday. official news agency IRNA. Protesters took to the streets in about 15 Iranian cities, blocking … Read more

Ex-cop sentenced to 21 more years in Floyd case Current America | DW

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Former police officer Derek Chauvin will trade his solitary confinement in Minnesota’s only maximum-security prison for an extended stay in a federal prison. Despite his notoriety for the murder of George Floyd, he should probably be safer there. A US federal court in Saint Paul, Minnesota, sentenced Chauvin to 21 years in prison after the … Read more