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“SHOT” – The Drama of InJustice

January 15, 2021

By Gloria J. Browne-Marshall His teenage body lay cooking in the August heat as the world watched. Michael Brown, 18, was dead on the street of Ferguson, Missouri, shot by Police Officer Darren … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, Injustice, Police Brutality, SHOT Caught A Soul, Stage Plays

No Charges Made in Jacob Blake Shooting

January 9, 2021

By Ana Martinez-Ortiz Last August, Jacob Blake was shot in the back seven times by Kenosha Police Officer Rusten Shesky. After an investigation into the shooting, Kenosha County District … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Ana Martinez-Ortiz, Jacob Blake, Michael Graveley, Police Brutality, Rusten Shesky

Kenosha Police Officer Identified as Jacob Blake Shooter

August 28, 2020

By Ana Martinez-Ortiz Seven. That is the number of times a police officer shot Jacob Blake while his children sat horrified in the car. The shooting occurred 40 miles away from Milwaukee in … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Ana Martinez-Ortiz, Jacob Blake, Josh Kaul, Police Brutality, Police Shooting, Rusten Sheskey

‘I Need this Country to Be Better for My Children’: Milwaukee Mothers Rally for Racial Justice

June 19, 2020

Princess Safiya Byers – Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service This story was originally published by Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service, where you can find other stories reporting on fifteen city … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Mad Moms, Police Brutality, Protests, Racial Justice, Safiya Byers

Milwaukee Police Release Body Cam Videos of Sterling Brown

May 26, 2018

By Ana Martinez-Ortiz On a Friday back in January, specifically January 26, Sterling Brown, a player for the Milwaukee Bucks, exited a Walgreen’s and encountered some Milwaukee Police Officers. … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Alfonso Morales, Ana Martinez-Ortiz, Milwaukee Bucks, Milwaukee Police Department, Police Brutality

Milwaukee County Women League of Voters Analyzes United Nations Police Brutality Report

April 23, 2016

By Mrinal Gokhale Police brutality has been controversial in the United States during the past year. The United Nations Working Group of Experts visited the United State in January 2016, releasing … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: League of Women Voters, Lena Taylor, Mrinal Gokhale, Police Brutality, United Nations, voter id

The Atlantic Journalist Addresses Police Brutality at Lawrence University

November 7, 2015

By Rick Peterson APPLETON, WIS. — The destruction of the black body in the United States is “tradition, it’s heritage,” award-winning author Ta-Nehisi Coates told a standing-room only crowd at … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Black Lives Matter, Lawrence University, Police Brutality, Ta-Nehisi Coates

Black Women Leaders Outraged By Police Violence Against S.C. Student

October 31, 2015

By Hazel Trice Edney (TriceEdneyWire.com) Leading Black women across the nation are expressing outrage this week over the videotaped violent incident showing a White police officer in … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Barbara Arnwine, Ben Fields, Julianne Malveaux, Leon Lott, Melanie Campbell, Police Brutality, Spring Valley High School

Million Moms March this Mother’s Day Weekend

May 9, 2015

Maria Hamilton, the mother of Dontre Hamilton, a 31-year-old unarmed black man shot fourteen times for sleeping in a public park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin - will be in Washington D.C. this weekend for … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Dontre Hamilton, March on Washington, Million Moms March, Mothers For Justice United, Police Brutality

Ex-cop Who Fatally Shot Dontre Hamilton Will Not Be Reinstated to MPD

March 28, 2015

By Karen Stokes Christopher Manney 38, the former Milwaukee police officer fired due to the highly publicized fatal shooting of an unarmed, mentally-ill Black man, learned his fate Monday night … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Chris Manney, Christopher Manney, Dontre Hamilton, Edward A Flynn, Milwaukee Police Department, Police Brutality, Police Shooting

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