White House To Reauthorize Military Equipment For Police

The demilitarization of police, which often act like an occupying force in communities, is a key demand of Black Lives Matter activists.

teleSUR
By teleSUR
Police Shooting Missouri

The Obama White House is set to authorize police agencies to once again acquire military equipment, a move that is sure to be met with heavy criticism from activists seeking greater accountability from police in light of regular police killings of Black men. Reuters reported Thursday that the U.S. government will revisit a 2015 ban on police

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Don’t Just Blame Police: Who’s Responsible For America’s Killing Fields?

“I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own government. For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of the hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent.”—Martin Luther King Jr.

John Whitehead
By John Whitehead
A protester is grabbed by police officers in riot gear after she refused to leave the motor way in front of the the Baton Rouge Police Department Headquarters in Baton Rouge, La. Police made nearly 200 arrests in Louisiana's capital city during weekend protests around the country in which people angry over police killings of young black men sought to block some major interstates.

The latest shootings—in Texas, Minnesota, Louisiana, Illinois, New York, Missouri and every other state in the nation—are symptomatic of a psychotic outbreak by a nation that has been waging a war against its own citizens for too long. We have long since passed the stage at which a government of wolves would give rise to a nation of sheep. As I

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DOJ: Militarized Police Tactics Caused Ferguson Riots

DOJ: Police effort to handle protests with inappropriate, militaristic tactics not only violated constitutional rights, it effectively antagonized and incited the crowd—creating the very situation police ostensibly sought to prevent.

Claire Bernish
By Claire Bernish

(ANTIMEDIA) Police apologists, who have long claimed the violent response by officers to demonstrations in Ferguson was perfectly justified and appropriate, might soon be eating crow. According to a Department of Justice document obtained by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the police effort to handle protests with inappropriate, militaristic

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Obama Limits Military Gear For Police Departments

Obama also is unveiling the final report of a task force he created to help build confidence between police and minority communities in particular.

Associated Press
By Associated Press

Police in riot gear watch protesters in Ferguson, Mo. on Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014. On Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014, a white police officer fatally shot Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, in the St. Louis suburb. WASHINGTON  — Nine months after police in riot gear dispelled racially charged protests, President Barack Obama is prohibiting the

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US Isn’t Invading Texas, But Pentagon Is Prepping For Mass Civil Unrest

The Texas governor’s overreaction to upcoming U.S. military exercises has turned the state into a laughingstock, but might there be real risks from growing Pentagon involvement in protest policing?

MintPress News Desk
By MintPress News Desk
Police watch over protests which erupted after the police killing of Michael Brown, Monday, Nov. 24, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo.

Police watch over protests which erupted after the police killing of Michael Brown, Monday, Nov. 24, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. MINNEAPOLIS --- Experts agree it’s unlikely that Obama is planning to invade Texas, or that the government is secretly using a network of tunnels built under Wal-Mart stores, but Americans should still worry about the

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The Case For Disarming The Police

Policing is not defensive in nature, it is offensive. The Constitution never had a word to say about someone – let alone an agent of the State – having the right to be armed in the course of policing citizens “proactively” or offensively.

M. David for Counter Current News
By M. David for Counter Current News

In a nation where approximately one third of the population owns guns, it might sound strange to argue that police officers should not “police” the community while being armed. After all, the Second Amendment does protect the rights of citizens to keep or “own” and bear or “carry” firearms. The Supreme Court, which is charged with interpreting the

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