This doesn't do much to change the perception that the police have it out for black men in America.
Here's a sampling of how cops in online police forums are responding to the latest non-indictment of a killer officer.
Melissa Gira Grant
Dec 5, 2014
Melissa Gira Grant
Police don't need to be outfitted and trained in surveillance—they know the power of images, and how powerfully they are networked.
Matt Taylor and John Surico
Dec 5, 2014
Matt Taylor and John Surico
Hundreds were arrested but the protests remained mostly peaceful even as the tone veered from "Hands up, don't shoot!" to "Hands up, shoot back!" by night's end.
Zach Schwartz
Dec 5, 2014
Zach Schwartz
This week a Staten Island grand jury declined to indict the cop who killed Eric Garner with an illegal chokehold. With Ghostface Killah hailing from the streets of Shaolin, I thought I'd call him up to get his opinion on what's been going on.
New Yorkers flooded the streets in protest last night after a grand jury declined to indict the NYPD officer w…
If we want to stop cops from killing civilians, we need to reduce the influence law enforcement has on the levers of government.
Institutionalized racism isn't just about the headlines you read or the grand jury verdicts that inspire protests, it's something that infects the consciousness of black people everywhere.
People flooded the streets in response to the Staten Island grand jury's decision not to indict the cop who placed Garner in the choke hold the led to his death last July.
Kristen Gwynne
Dec 3, 2014
Kristen Gwynne
Little more than a week after a grand jury declined to indict Darren Wilson, another controversial white cop involved in a violent death got off.
The NYPD did some recon in Missouri last week ahead of its own grand jury decision on police violence, expected any day now.
Eben Pindyck
Oct 28, 2014
Eben Pindyck
Could martial-arts training help prevent police-brutality cases, like the horrific killing of Staten Island father Eric Garner this summer?
Solange Uwimana
Oct 23, 2014
Solange Uwimana
After Eric Garner's brutal death this summer, I wanted to find out whether it's still easy to find someone willing to sell me some smokes on the street.
Every week, it seems, brings a story about police choking, beating, or falsely arresting civilians. Yet the cops hardly ever suffer the consequences for their bad behavior. What needs to happen before that changes?
There were a lot of celebratory headlines after Attorney General Eric Holder announced a drop in the federal prison population last week, but the state-by-state numbers tell a more complicated tale.
Life contains everything: tear gas in Ferguson, books read on the grass, journalist James Foley's murder, dancing in New Orleans till sunrise blots the stars. We're meat—fragile and finite. But joy is survival.
Though casting himself as a bold teller of truths, more often than not the Reverend Al Sharpton serves the agenda of those in power.
Aaron Miguel Cantú
Aug 25, 2014
Aaron Miguel Cantú
Politicians praised this weekend's protest against the NYPD for being calm and orderly, but "calm and orderly" doesn't always bring about change.
The autopsy report offers some insight into what happened to the 22-year-old, but mostly serves to inspire a bunch of new indignant questions about how the police could claim he shot himself in the backseat of a cop car.
Aug 20, 2014
Wilbert L. Cooper
Aug 20, 2014
Wilbert L. Cooper
The autopsy report offers some insight into what happened to the 22-year-old, but mostly serves to inspire a bunch of new indignant questions about how the police could claim he shoot himself in the backseat of a cop car.
Aaron Miguel Cantú
Aug 19, 2014
Aaron Miguel Cantú
All across the country, the police are under fire for killing unarmed people of color—and that's spurring people from all backgrounds to embrace new forms of resistance.
Despite its usefulness as fodder for television crime dramas, forensic science has glaring flaws, and the FBI's investigations spanning decades are looking flimsier than ever.
Nick Pinto
Aug 1, 2014
Nick Pinto
NYC resident Eric Garner's death via police chokehold has been officially ruled a homicide. So why did cops arrest another man outside his funeral even though he wasn't doing anything illegal at the time?
By now, you've probably heard something about the death of Eric Garner on Thursday in Staten Island, New York City. Turns out EMT workers didn't even try to help him in the minutes after he was choked.