A bulletproof vest saved the life of a city cop shot by one of his NYPD colleagues Sunday in a wild Harlem shootout that left two men riddled with police bullets. Luis Soto, 22, died after being shot six times. The fatal bullet tore through his lungs, heart and kidney The police said Soto was […]
Footage of French police using apparently excessive force while breaking up an immigrant squat has prompted outrage as activists and intellectuals accuse Nicolas Sarkozy of pursuing policies that target the vulnerable while giving free reign to the police. The video, filmed by a member of the social housing charity Droit au Logement (DAL), shows officers […]
From NYDailyNews.com: Sean Bell’s dad lashed out Wednesday at a top police union official who called his dead son drunk – and suggested he brought on his own demise.
From NYDailyNews.com: A Brooklyn teen who was about to start college spent four days in a coma after he was slammed to the ground by cops in a post-barbecue beatdown, his mother and lawyer say.
From NYTimes.com: Closing a key chapter in one of the most controversial police shootings in recent memory, New York City agreed on Tuesday to pay more than $7 million to settle a federal lawsuit filed by the family and two friends of Sean Bell, a 23-year-old black man who was fatally shot by the police […]
From SFGate.com: A man who was shot and killed on Saturday morning by Oakland and BART police officers after charging against them with knives in each hand was identified as 48-year-old Oakland resident Fred Collins.
From NYDailyNews.com: Gov. Paterson Friday signed into law the controversial stop and frisk legislation that forces the NYPD to delete the names of people questioned – but not arrested – from its electronic database.
I considered this question as I watched two major announcements involving young black men unfold hours from each other in what seemed like two separate worlds.
