Cleveland Police Demand Apology After Browns Player Protests Tamir Rice Shooting

“He’s an athlete. He’s someone with no facts of the case whatsoever,” said Jeff Follman, the president of the Police Patrolman Union in Cleveland.

Travis Waldron For Think Progress
By Travis Waldron For Think Progress

Cleveland Browns wide receiver Andrew Hawkins became the latest player to join on-field protests against recent police shootings of black men on Sunday, when he walked onto the field with a t-shirt that read “Justice for Tamir Rice and John Crawford” over his jersey. Rice was the 12-year-old who Cleveland police shot in November after they

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‘The Alarm Bells are Ringing’: From Athletes To Environmentalists, A Universal Call For Racial Justice

While the protests over deaths of Eric Garner and Mike Brown refuse to stand down, leading environmentalists, labor protesters and others show their solidarity saying: “These issues are not separate.”

Lauren McCauley
By Lauren McCauley

With the nation's streets still filled with protesters and a plan for thousands to march on Washington brewing, the call for justice for Mike Brown, Eric Garner, and other black victims of police violence has only grown stronger. In the days and weeks since two grand juries failed to indict the police officers who killed the two men, expressions of

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VIDEO: Police Handcuffed Tamir Rice’s Sister, Threatened To Arrest His Mother

Samaria Rice said that when she arrived at the scene of the shooting, she found her 14-year-old daughter handcuffed in the back of a police car. The girl was apparently handcuffed because she “refused to calm down” at the sight of her little brother just getting killed in front of her.

John Vibes
By John Vibes

Reports: Cleveland, Ohio – All month, we have been reporting on the story of a young boy named Tamir Rice who was shot and killed by a police officer while playing in a park with a toy gun. As more details about the incident surface, the situation has become more and more disturbing than police initially described. This week, Tamir’s

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Like Eric Garner, We Are All Caught In A System Designed To Fail Us

Like the cop who choked out Eric Garner, our corrupt, unjust and unbalanced system is crushing the life out of the economy for everyday working people, who are increasingly falling behind and becoming ever more insecure as time goes on.

Jeffrey Cavanaugh
By Jeffrey Cavanaugh
Arrest Struggle Death

A mourner places a candle at a memorial for Eric Garner, a Staten Island man who died while being arrested by New York City police, Tuesday, July 22, 2014, in New York. Demonstrators gathered at a park Tuesday, near where police attempted to arrest Garner, 43, on suspicion of selling untaxed cigarettes. The final words the late Eric Garner

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VIDEO: NYPD Police Union Blames Eric Garner For His Own Death

Was the state’s missing revenue from the possibility of a man selling single cigarettes worth more than the life of another human being? The NYPD thinks so.

Matt Agorist
By Matt Agorist

Reports: New York, NY — Patrol Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch spoke at a press conference Thursday and implied that Eric Garner was responsible for his own death. “We feel Mr. Garner made a choice that day to resist arrest,” Lynch said. “You can not resist arrest. It leads to a dangerous confrontation.” During the press

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