US policing
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Akai Gurley's funeral: a cry for answersAs another grand jury deliberates on the killing of an unarmed black man by police, a community declares ‘enough is enough’ -
Akai Gurley: 'Enough is enough' – videoScenes from outside the Brooklyn Memorial Baptist Church where the funeral was held of 28-year old Akai Gurley, who was shot dead by a police officer in Brooklyn
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Tamir Rice's family sues Cleveland officers over 12-year-old's deathFederal civil rights action says boy lay on ground for minutes without medical help
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NAACP's six-day, 134-mile 'Journey for Justice' reaches Missouri capital cityDozens of marchers joined by hundreds of supporters in Jefferson City for rally in capitol rotunda -
Did you join a protest against the Michael Brown and Eric Garner decisions? Share your stories and photosAfter Michael Brown and Eric Garner’s deaths, protesters have taken to the streets across America. Have you joined them? Tell us what you’ve seen
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Mother of unarmed black man says Phoenix killing had 'nothing to do with race'Rumain Brisbon’s family says any rallies on his behalf should ‘support him positively’
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Grand jury to consider fatal shooting of Akai Gurley by New York City policeBrooklyn district attorney pledges full and fair investigation of fatal shooting of unarmed man
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UN calls on US police to end racial profiling and review rules on lethal forceSpecial rapporteur ‘concerned’ by grand juries’ decisions on deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner and calls for review of rules for police use of lethal force
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Investigator of racist killing spree in Pacific north-west to plead guilty to misconductOregon officer withheld and destroyed evidence, nearly allowing confessed white supremacist mass murderers to go free and tainting image of local police
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Phoenix police officer who shot black man said he mistook bottle of pills for gunPolice department says officer, who is white, believed suspect had a gun during a struggle outside an apartment building in Phoenix
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Eric Garner protests continue in cities across America through second nightMarchers take to streets in anger at chokehold verdict, with demonstrations also taking place in other major cities
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South Carolina secures series of police indictments as protests rage elsewhereProsecutors in the southern state have charged three white officers for on-duty shootings of unarmed black men in the past four months
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Eric Garner: black lives matter, says New York mayor Bill de Blasio – video
New York mayor Bill de Blasio says race inequality is an American problem after a grand jury failed to indict a police officer over the death of Eric Garner
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Eric Garner protests continue for a second night – video
Protesters gather in New York and Washington for a second night after a grand jury rejected calls to indict a white police officer over the death of an unarmed black man
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‘I can’t breathe’: hands up from across the globe at Eric Garner protests – video
As protests into a chokehold death at the hands of the NYPD continue, Guardian US columnist Steven W Thrasher visits the 'scene of a crime that is not the scene of a crime' and looks ahead to a movement that isn't going to end anytime soon
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'Chaotic and dangerous' Cleveland police shamed in withering government reportCleveland force accused of using excessive and unreasonable force in hundreds of cases as DoJ appoint independent monitor to oversee reforms
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Lack of charges against police in New York chokehold death follows Texas patternDecision not to indict in the death of Eric Garner is the latest in a series to go light on police for physical attacks. The difference: it didn’t happen in Texas
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NYPD officers to undergo retraining in use of force following Garner deathNew York mayor Bill de Blasio has unveiled plans to retrain the city’s police officers to improve communication with citizens following the death of Eric Garner
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#CrimingWhileWhite vs. #AliveWhileBlack: Twitter weighs in on Garner decisionCommenters on social media weigh in on the difference in police attitudes toward white Americans and black Americans
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Obama under pressure over response to police killings after Eric Garner decisionPresident creates task force and pledges to work with New York mayor after latest police killing of an unarmed black man prompts more unrest
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Cleveland officer who fatally shot Tamir Rice judged unfit for duty in 2012Timothy Loehmann criticised by small Ohio force for breaking down while handling live gun and his performance was called ‘dismal’, records show
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Body cameras for police officers? Not so fast, say researchersObama supports the use of body cameras on police officers, but researchers say they’re unconvinced of the merits of the technology
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Grand jury indicts white police officer in shooting death of unarmed black manFormer South Carolina police chief Richard Combs charged with murder for 2011 killing of Bernard Bailey during an altercation
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Jeb Lund: Go ask Megyn Kelly. This is what happens when logic and proportion get subjected to six straight hours of victim-blamingEric Garner + Mike Brown + Fox News = the White Knights talking backwards
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Eric Garner protests across the US - in picturesDemonstrations were held in New York and other cities around the US last night after a grand jury refused to indict the police officer who placed the unarmed black man in a chokehold
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The real problem in Ferguson, New York and all of America is institutional racismVincent Warren: Black men are not dying at the hands of (mostly) white cops – nor are those cops being excused from legal responsibility – because of mutual ‘distrust’
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Eric Garner protests erupt in New York - video
Thousands took to the streets in New York in protest over the decision not to criminally prosecute Daniel Pantaleo, an NYPD officer who killed Eric Garner in a chokehold
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Eric Garner decision: dozens of arrests as protesters take to New York streets – as it happenedProtests in New York as attorney general Eric Holder announces investigation into death of unarmed black man Eric Garner
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Eric Garner: grand jury declines to indict NYPD officer over chokehold deathLawyer ‘astonished’ as New York police officer will not face charges over death of Eric Garner in chokehold that was caught on camera
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Public reacts to Eric Garner grand jury decision with rage – and little surpriseA grand jury may have decided not to indict a New York police officer in Garner’s chokehold death, but on Twitter, judgement was swift and surprise was absent
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Steven W Thrasher column The Eric Garner decision confirms a holiday of horrors. 'Tis the season for more protest, not less
Steven W Thrasher: Pretending that we should keep calm and carry on – that we even can – is a bigger fantasy than Santa ClausThe Eric Garner decision confirms a holiday of horrors. 'Tis the season for more protest, not less -
Tamir Rice's family remember 12-year-old at Cleveland memorial — in picturesOn Wednesday, a memorial service was held for Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old Cleveland boy shot to death by a police officer
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Eric Garner grand jury decision over police chokehold death could come this weekAs in Ferguson, New York grand jury deciding whether police officer should be indicted and brought to trial in case ruled ‘homicide’ by medical examiner
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Roxane Gay column What the St Louis Rams know about Ferguson is a righteous glimpse of the way forward
Roxane Gay: Protesting the death of Michael Brown is not a political act, no matter what the pundits say. These are five men who don’t want to die for being black. This is personalWhat the St Louis Rams know about Ferguson is a righteous glimpse of the way forward
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Trevor Timm column If Eric Garner's killer can't be indicted, what cop possibly could? It's time to fix grand juries