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Video Shows Police Kicking In Door Before Killing Unarmed Teen

Surveillance footage has been released from the killing of Ramarley Graham by the NYPD. The footage clearly shows Graham walking into his building and officers kicking down the door and entering the building without a warrant.

In the video, police can be seen pointing a gun at a resident and another resident claims the police didn’t identify themselves. After the police broke into the apartment, the 18-year-old Graham was shot and killed

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Feb 3, 2012 at 10:21 am

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When Will It Stop?! Unarmed Teen Fatally Shot By Police

Ramarley Graham was fatally shot by plain clothes officers, after he tried to run from them during a confrontation Thursday afternoon, according to the New York Daily News.

Graham, 19, was pursued by a team of police who had attempted to stop and question him. Reportedly, police witnessed the youth adjusting the waistband of his pants on the street and immediately assumed he had a gun. The youth,

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Jan 24, 2012 at 1:05 pm

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FBI Arrests 4 Police Officers For Assaulting, Harassing Suburb

EAST HAVEN, Conn. — Four police officers, including the president of the local police union, were arrested Tuesday by the FBI on charges that they assaulted illegal immigrants and created false reports to cover up abuses in a New Haven suburb where a federal investigation found life was made miserable for Hispanics.

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Jan 24, 2012 at 11:19 am

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Another Case Of Shocking Police Brutality [Graphic Video]?

LOS ANGELES-Police shot and killed a man armed with a crowbar outside of a Carl’s Jr. restaurant in Monterey, California. Police were called to the restaurant after reports that a man was breaking windows with a crowbar.

At first, police officers tased the individual, which resulted in the unidentified man approaching a police officer with his crowbar. Then another police officer shot the man five times. When the man fell down, another

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Jan 13, 2012 at 1:08 pm

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Cops Kill Armed Man In His Pajamas Outside Of His Home

NEW YORK-Police shot and killed Dwayne Browne outside of his home in East New York, Brooklyn after he came outside of his house in his pajamas with a gun to check on a possible break-in.

Browne was working installing floors and had attended pharmaceutical school. Browne’s girlfriend says the two were watching a movie together when Browne went outside after noticing a group of men trying to force themselves in the apartment.

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Al Sharpton

Dec 19, 2011 at 6:21 pm

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College Student Asks, “Why Is The NYPD After Me?”

New York college student Nicholas K. Peart writes a disturbing yet familiar article in the New York Times about his experience with the police, entitled “Why Is the NYPD After Me?”

Peart initially explains that even though his mother gave him an ominous warning about the police at the precocious age of 9 — “She

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Al Sharpton

Dec 18, 2011 at 10:20 am

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Black Males And Cops: Are We Living In A Police State?

When I went to the screening of Spike Lee’s movie Malcolm X , Rodney King was sitting in the front row and I was seated next to Alice Walker. At that time he was the proof of what Black men had been saying for so long: The police are trying to kill us unjustly and abuse us regularly. It was something most of White America denied until the footage

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Al Sharpton

Dec 8, 2011 at 1:32 pm

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5 Reasons Why Mumia Should Be Released

Following the announcement of Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams that Mumia Abu-Jamal “will no longer be facing the death penalty,” Archbishop Desmond Tutu called for further action.

“Now that it is clear that Mumia should never have been on death row in the first place, justice will not be served by relegating him to prison for the rest of his life—yet another form of death sentence,” he said in a statement

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Al Sharpton

Dec 7, 2011 at 11:49 am

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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Mumia Abu-Jamal

Before Troy Davis became known to the country and later the world, Mumia Abu-Jamal gained international support after he was convicted of the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner, and sentenced to death. Abu-Jamal was called the “world’s best-known death row inmate.”
1. MEANING BEHIND THE NAME
Abu-Jamal was born Wesley Cook. He was named “Mumia” by his high school teacher in 1968 after his African cultures class took on African

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Video Shows Police Kicking In Door Before Killing Unarmed Teen

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When Will It Stop?! Unarmed Teen Fatally Shot By Police

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FBI Arrests 4 Police Officers For Assaulting, Harassing Suburb

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Another Case Of Shocking Police Brutality [Graphic Video]?

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Cops Kill Armed Man In His Pajamas Outside Of His Home

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College Student Asks, “Why Is The NYPD After Me?”

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Black Males And Cops: Are We Living In A Police State?

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