Rancho Cordova Police accused of using excessive force on 14-year-old black teen

We have to take a serious stance on those that sell us out in this manner. Breonna Taylor didn't deserve this at all.

Cellphone video appears to show a fatal officer-involved shooting that left a 31-year-old Louisiana man dead. Louisiana state police say the man was armed with a knife and was ineffectively tasered by officers before the shooting took place.

Elijah McClain died last August after a violent encounter with police in Aurora, Colorado. McClain was put in a chokehold by officers, and given a sedative by the paramedics before going into cardiac arrest and dying three days later in the hospital. Governor Jared Polis has called for a thorough investigation. "We owe it to the people of Colorado, as well as his mother, to make sure we take every step we can to ensure that those responsible for his death are held accountable in a court of law." Aired on 06/26/2020.

Two Chicago police officers have been relieved of their police powers after two incidents at the Brickyard Mall on Sunday.

Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich breaks down 7 lessons we should take away from 2020: 1. Workers keep America going, not billionaires. 2. Systemic racism is literally killing Black and brown Americans. 3. If we can afford to bail out corporations and Wall Street, we can afford to invest in the American people. 4. Governors and mayors are running the country, not Trump. 5. Healthcare must be made a right in America. 6. Our social safety nets are woefully broken. 7. Government matters. It's tragic that it took record unemployment, graphic videos of Black Americans being murdered, and millions of people taking to the streets for many of us to grasp how backwards, broken, and racist our system really is. We cannot cling to the idea of "going back to normal" because "normal" is what got us here. We can no longer accept piecemeal reforms of our broken systems. We need to embrace radical transformation and undergo a fundamental reinvestment in the American people.

There are growing calls for police accountability after demonstrators were hospitalized or injured while protesting the death of George Floyd. In Buffalo, New York, video captures police pushing a 75-year-old man, who hit his head on concrete as officers continued to advance.

Bodycam footage was recently released that proved that the Fresno police lied about a brutal attack on a teenager.

Watch these ignorant honkys harrass this Black woman for walking a dog on the beach.

As the Senate reconvenes today, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is demanding that Congress use the next stimulus bill to protect corporations from liability for workers. “He wants to protect their right to engage in egregious misconduct,” says Robert Weissman, president of Public Citizen.

Officials say the deputy was responding to a report of someone selling drugs, alcohol, and tobacco to underage kids.

A police officer in Warren claims her fellow officers refuse to back her up at crime scenes because of the color of her skin.

Two brothers claim Sacramento Sheriff's Deputies used excessive force after a neighbor accused of them of breaking into a home.

There has been an explosion of incarceration in rural communities across America. PAR explores the profit motive that has stimulated this rapid increase in our carceral complex with guest Otto the Watchdog, a first amendment auditor.

ABC's Linsey Davis speaks with Burrell, who is serving a life sentence for the 2002 death of 11-year-old Tyesha Edwards. Burrell has maintained his innocence. READ MORE: https://abcn.ws/32xJIEA

After a surprising third-place finish in the New Hampshire primary, Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar is attempting to gain ground in the national polls. But Klobuchar is also facing mounting scrutiny over her record as a district attorney in Minnesota. The Minneapolis NAACP, Black Lives Matter Twin Cities and other racial justice groups recently called on Klobuchar to suspend her presidential campaign following a shocking investigation by the Associated Press. The AP report centered on the case of Myon Burrell, an African-American teenager who was sentenced to life in prison over the 2002 murder of 11-year-old Tyesha Edwards. Klobuchar led the case against Myon Burrell when she was Hennepin County’s district attorney, but the AP report says she may have mishandled the case and that Burrell could be innocent. The Associated Press report shows how prosecutors had no DNA or fingerprints tying Burrell to the murder and that they relied on jailhouse informants, some of whom have since recanted their testimonies. Burrell has always maintained his innocence. On the campaign trail, Klobuchar has cited the jailing of Burrell as one of her achievements and brought up the conviction during a debate in September. We speak with Nekima Levy Armstrong, civil rights attorney, activist, head of the Racial Justice Network and former president of the Minneapolis chapter of the NAACP. “It’s shocking at this point that Amy Klobuchar is still in the race for president of the United States, given the significance of Myon Burrell’s case,” she says.

Operation Relentless Pursuit is a Department of Justice initiative to combat crime through a "surge in federal resources.” We talked with Brandon Walker of the Ujima People's Progress Party about what's really needed to combat crime and empower neighborhoods in places like Baltimore, one of the seven cities targeted by the plan.

LA is kicking crooked cops to the curb. Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comments below.

The police accountability report talks to a first-hand witness to the alleged crimes of a group of corrections officers charged with brutalizing inmates as part of a larger criminal scheme Producer: Stephen Janis Taya Graham Director/Video Editor: Dwayne Gladden Audio Engineer: David Hebden Camera Operator: Taylor Hebden Will Arenas Motion Graphics Designer: Kelly McAdams Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate.

FILM AVAILABLE HERE: http://crackingthecodes.org. In this story from Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequity, a film from World Trust, author and educator Joy DeGruy shares how her sister-in-law uses her white privilege to stand up to systemic inequity.

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The Southern Poverty Law Center's Hatewatch report on the leaked emails of Trump senior policy adviser Stephen Miller shows the deep connections he has to racist white nationalists.