US policing
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As another grand jury deliberates on the killing of an unarmed black man by police, a community declares ‘enough is enough’
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Scenes 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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Federal civil rights action says boy lay on ground for minutes without medical help
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Dozens of marchers joined by hundreds of supporters in Jefferson City for rally in capitol rotunda
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After 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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Rumain Brisbon’s family says any rallies on his behalf should ‘support him positively’
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Brooklyn district attorney pledges full and fair investigation of fatal shooting of unarmed man
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Special 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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Oregon 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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Police department says officer, who is white, believed suspect had a gun during a struggle outside an apartment building in Phoenix
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Marchers take to streets in anger at chokehold verdict, with demonstrations also taking place in other major cities
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Prosecutors 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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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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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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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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Cleveland force accused of using excessive and unreasonable force in hundreds of cases as DoJ appoint independent monitor to oversee reforms
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Decision 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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New 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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Commenters on social media weigh in on the difference in police attitudes toward white Americans and black Americans
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President 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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Timothy 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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Obama 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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Former 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-blaming
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Demonstrations 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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Vincent 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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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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Protests in New York as attorney general Eric Holder announces investigation into death of unarmed black man Eric Garner
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Lawyer ‘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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A 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 Claus -
On 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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As 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 personal
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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