“Cities and counties around the nation are hurting badly but is that to say that it’s going to make the LAPD any better in terms of how they police, hire and promote in terms of more minority sensitive?I don’t think so.I just think it’s going to increase the liability of taxpayers,” Dr. Hutchinson said.
If cities [...]

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by jonathan bernstein at jewishsf.com
In early January we first noticed this phenomenon at protests over the New Year’s Day shooting death of Oscar Grant, an unarmed black man, by a BART police officer. We saw signs there making the strange parallels about how “our taxes kill” in both Gaza and Oakland. Though the notion was [...]

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On February 6, about 200 people gathered at the main intersection of the city to say: “Enough is Enough. No More Stolen Lives! We are all Oscar Grant!” They came to protest an epidemic of police brutality, with the murder of Oscar Grant only the latest example. As they gathered the crowd learned that Johannes [...]

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