Police Brutality: Last News

claiming she could have prevented George Floyd’s death — and was accused of having a “white savior” complex.The songstress, 74, admitted that she realized that she hurt people “by not knowing everything that’s ‘not appropriate to say.’“I know Ppl Apologize When They’re In a Jam, BUT [hand] TO GOD … IM TRULY SORRY If I Upset AnyOne In [the black] Community. I Know My [heart],” she wrote on Twitter.The singer came under fire after she tweeted Friday that she was watching the trial of ex-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who planted his knee on Floyd’s neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds during a routine bust.

The Willamette Week reported.The move comes after author Lois Leveen called on the theater to cancel the screening, saying there’s “nothing entertaining about the presence of police in schools.”“Yes, KINDERGARTEN COP is only a movie. So are BIRTH OF A NATION and GONE WITH THE WIND, but we recognize films like those are not ‘good family fun,’” she wrote on Twitter on Saturday.“They are relics of how pop culture feeds racist assumptions.

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dropped Tuesday night, is a direct response to the Black Lives Matter protests over the deaths of George Floyd and several other black Americans. In the song, he struggles to understand how to best use his voice as a celebrity.However, many have interpreted the song to be a diss track aimed at Chicago-based rapper Noname, 28, who’s been using her social media as an outlet for “black radical unity” and anti-racism activism.“My IQ is average, there’s a young lady out there, she way smarter than me / I scrolled through her timeline in these wild times, and I started to read / She mad at these crackers, she mad at these capitalists, mad at these murder police,” Cole, 35, raps.

via YouTube, the comedian scorches the city’s smallest borough while doing a slow-burn on George Floyd, police brutality and the killings of African Americans.“You watch one shooting after another …Eric Garner in New York. The first guy that told the police, ‘I can’t breathe,'” Chappelle notes.

shared the video on Instagram today, saying “I could have easily been an Ahmaud Arbery or a George Floyd.”The actor and comedian spoke about the incident during an appearance on today’s episode of CBS’ “The Talk,” describing how he was stopped by four police officers, their guns drawn, as he was running on an L.A. sidewalk.

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cancellation of Cops, A&E has also announced the cancellation of it’s own cop show, Live P.D. after four seasons.

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13th and When They See Us. It’s clear the director has dedicated her career to amplifying Black issues, and she continues to keep her foot on the gas. DuVernay’s latest project will finance new stories about police brutality through her latest initiative, the Law Enforcement Accountability Project.

he nephew of Harvey Milk on Thursday expressed his support for those who are protesting against police brutality in the wake of George Floyd’s death.

. "While we cannot entirely rule out the effects of under-reporting, our results show that crime complaints decreased, rather than increased, during a slowdown in proactive policing, contrary to deterrence theory.”It could, but it may take a while and will likely only happen over time in bits and pieces.

Variety reports. The two-night special will air on the host’s OWN channel on June 9 and 10 at 9 p.m.

Keke Palmer led a peaceful conversation between protestors and National Guard soldiers at a Los Angeles protest on Tuesday. 

Hundreds of Sydney residents attended the ‘Black Lives Matter’ protest in Hyde Park on Tuesday, following the murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis Police officers in the United States.

Eminem has joined the cause.

Andrea Jenkins is the Vice President of Minneapolis City Counsel for Ward Eight. After a long career in public service, when she became the first openly transgender Black woman to be elected to public office.

Other than a few incidents, protesters around Los Angeles County Saturday peacefully expressed their outrage over the alleged murder of George Floyd, a black man who was handcuffed, pleading that he couldn’t breath as a white Minneapolis police officer casually kneeled on his neck for more than eight minutes last May 25.