Tag Archives | Systemic Racist Police Violence Against People of African Descent in the United States

International rights experts condemn U.S. police killings as ‘Crimes Against Humanity’

Originally published: Common Dreams on April 27, 2021 by Julia Conley (more by Common Dreams) | (Posted May 04, 2021)

“The world is not only watching, it’s judging.”
California must lead the way in abolishing school and university campus police

Originally published: The Sacramento Bee on January 31, 2021 by Dr. Melina Abdullah, Dr. Angela Y. Davis, Dr. Robin D.G. Kelley (more by The Sacramento Bee) | (Posted Feb 05, 2021)

The 2020 uprisings articulated transformative visions of a world without anti-Black violence, a world without hyper-funded police forces and thus a world with deep community safety and care.
George Floyd “narrated his death,” says attorney at International Inquiry

Originally published: Marjorie Cohn Blog on January 27, 2021 (more by Marjorie Cohn Blog)

George Floyd, who was publicly tortured and lynched by Minneapolis police officers on May 25, 2020, narrated his own death, legendary civil rights lawyer Benjamin Crump told the International Commission of Inquiry on Systemic Racist Police Violence Against People of African Descent in the United States at its January 25 hearing.