Video: 17 Year-Old Killed By Police After Flashing Headlights And Questioning Officer

An Eaton County Sheriff’s officer, tazed, and then killed 17 year-old Deven Guilford. The known details are sparse because the killing happened out of the view of the dash-cam, and the body camera was turned off at that point.

John Vibes
By John Vibes

Eaton County, MI — It was announced this week that the police officer who shot and killed 17-year-old Deven Guilford for flexing his rights this past February, will not be charged for any crimes. Deven was traveling along the road and flashed his lights at an officer because his headlights were so bright that they nearly made Deven run off the

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A National Action Plan For Community Policing And Racial Justice

‘While media attention waxes and wanes, the groundswell of anger and grief has started to translate into meaningful policy reform,’ groups say.

Deirdre Fulton
By Deirdre Fulton

With protests against police brutality, mass incarceration, and systemic racism sweeping the nation, activists seeking to empower local movements and elevate on-the-ground solutions have developed a set of resources that highlights the "the slow but sustained work of many communities to enact meaningful reforms that transform both the practices and

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2 Per Day: Report Shows Twice As Many Killed By Police in 2015 As FBI Estimated

A report by the Washington Post found that twice as many people were being killed by police as FBI figures previously accounted for, while the Guardian showed how much more likely blacks were to be shot.

Kit O'Connell
By Kit O'Connell
A protestor hangs a banner atop the flagpole of the Oakland Police Department

A protestor hangs a banner atop the flagpole of the Oakland Police Department Monday, Dec. 15, 2014, in Oakland, Calif.  (AP Photo/Ben Margot) WASHINGTON --- Two reports improve on the government’s incomplete statistics about America’s epidemic of police violence, showing just how deadly cops have become. According to statistics compiled

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Texas SWAT Attacks 81-Year-Old Man, Breaks His Hip, Denies Him Medical Assistance

“Things like this don’t happen in a vacuum. There’s nothing that we’ve been able to get that identifies the officers, that identifies the action that occurred…”

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S. Wooten
By M. David for Counter Current News
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herman-crisp SWAT

An 82-year-old man was shocked to find a Texas SWAT team storming his home. Before Herman Crisp could even ask any questions the uniformed officers, clad in military gear, knocked him down, broke his hip and denied him medical assistance. Herman Crisp explained in an interview with local KTBC news that the Georgetown SWAT deputies threw

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Soldier Jailed Over Court Fines Begs For His Life, Saying ‘I Can’t Breathe’ 20 Times Before Dying

The video shows Brown begging for water and air as they covered his head in bag.

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By S. Wooten
And M. David for Counter Current News
Sgt. James Brown

Sgt. James Brown checked into jail for a two-day sentence over a court fine. But even though he was supposed to have been let out once his mother paid the fine, that never happened until jail deputies had killed him. The active-duty soldier served two tours of duty in Iraq and informed the jail that he suffered from PTSD. The video shows

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Over 1,100 Civilians Were Killed By Police In 2014

The number of police killed by citizens amounted to barely 5% of the total murders committed by police.

Carey Wedler
By Carey Wedler

In this Aug. 20, 2014 file photo police arrest a man as they disperse a protest against the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. (ANTIMEDIA) A new preliminary FBI report shows that in 2014, 51 police officers were feloniously killed in the line of duty. The FBI notes that this is an 89% increase from 2013, when only 27 officers were

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