In Bakersfield, California, more than 100 residents and family members gathered for a candlelight vigil Tuesday night for Francisco Serna, a 73-year-old man who was shot seven times by police just after midnight on Monday as he was taking a walk in his neighborhood. Read more ⟶
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[In] Rio, which is one of the most dangerous cities in the Western world, one out of five homicides are committed by police. Relative to a year ago, police killings are up 135 percent.
Dave Zirin, sports writer for The Nation, has covered Brazil’s political and economic crisis amid preparations for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Read the full interview: Brazil’s Dance with the Devil: 2016 Rio Olympics Begin with Government Dysfunction & Police Violence
Meet Abdullah Muflahi, the convenience store owner who filmed Alton Sterling’s shooting and was then detained by Baton Rouge Police.
Today, Democracy Now! looks at a side of the Baton Rouge police shooting that has received little attention: What has happened to the individuals who filmed and distributed the shocking videos of Alton Sterling’s death?
The New York Daily News reports the man who filmed the chokehold death of Eric Garner, Ramsey Orta, is preparing to head to prison for four years as part of a plea deal for a weapons and drug charge. Orta is the only person in the Eric Garner case who has been jailed. He joined us in the Democracy Now! studios (pictured, left) for an interview in January: Why is Ramsey Orta, Man Who Filmed Police Killing of Eric Garner, the Only One Criminally Charged?
There are reports that the Chicago Police Department are suiting up through November 29 to deal with whatever comes after the video is released. Our concern is actually what Laquan McDonald’s family will feel once the video is released. And then what the young black people who walk down the street in Chicago every single day [will feel], worried about whether or not they will be the next Rekia Boyd, the next Ronnie Man, the next Laquan McDonald
Charlene Carruthers, Director of @blackyouthproject, discusses the decision by young black Chicago leaders to decline a meeting with Mayor Rahm Emanuel ahead of the release of police dashcam video of the killing of Laquan McDonald. Watch her interview here.
You can replace property. You can’t replace a life.
Miriam, a Baltimore resident protesting the killing of Freddie Gray in police custody. Hear more voices like Miriam’s in the Democracy Now! report from the streets of Baltimore.
There was a lynch mob. There was a death without a trial, without a jury, without a sentence. There was an execution — that’s lynching.
Eddie Conway, former leader of the Baltimore Black Panthers, talked to Democracy Now! about the murder of Freddie Gray in Baltimore police custody. The head of the police union in Baltimore called protests against the police killing a “lynch mob.”