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French police accused of systematic violence against refugees

French police accused of systematic violence against refugees

French police have been accused of more than 1,000 human rights violations against refugees, it has been reported. Four humanitarian organisations published a report called ‘Police Violence in Calais: Abusive and Illegal Practices by Law Enforcement officers’, says that 972 incidents were recorded over the space of a year by aid workers who formed a human rights monitoring team. One[Read More…]

Daniel Shaver was fatally shot dead by police

Unarmed father shot by police

An unarmed father has been filmed begging for his life, just moments before he was shot by police in Texas. The officer in question was later identified as Philip ‘Mitch’ Brailsford and has since been terminated from Mesa Police Department and charged with second-degree murder after fatally shooting Daniel Shaver. The Mesa Police Department released information from its investigation of[Read More…]

Cops use blacks for target practice

Cops use blacks for target practice

Officers from the North Miami Beach Police in Florida have been caught using black teenagers for target practice. This was discovered when one woman, Sgt. Valerie Deant, a clarinet player in the Florida Army National Guard’s 13th Army Band, turned up at the Medley Firearms Training Center after members of the department had been practicing, and recognized one of their[Read More…]

Why armed officers represent creeping fascism in the UK

Why armed officers represent creeping fascism in the UK

The UK is slowly tip-toeing into fascism by stealthily introducing armed officers into the streets, it has been revealed. In a move that has gone relatively unnoticed, a number of police officers are now routinely carrying sidearms while on patrol in parts of mainland UK. It is part of a softly, softly approach in which the British government is slowly[Read More…]