Tensions Rise As Protests Over Police Killings Sweep The Nation

Tensions between black citizens and police have risen since last week’s killings of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, and Philando Castile in Minnesota by white officers, and a retaliatory attack on white police by a black sniper in Dallas that killed five officers and wounded others.

Associated Press
By Associated Press
Protesters demonstrate a residential neighborhood in Baton Rouge, La. on Sunday, July 10, 2016.

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana — Police made dozens of 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. Riot police in full gear stopped a group of protesters in Baton Rouge late Sunday in their attempt to walk onto

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The Sniper Shooting In Dallas Was Both Murder And Blowback

Just as international terrorism is often blowback from international war and occupation, the sniper attack on cops in Dallas yesterday was blowback from American police acting as a domestic army of occupation.

Dan Sanchez
By Dan Sanchez
A clerk looks at broke windows shot out at a store in downtown Dallas, Friday, July 8, 2016. Snipers opened fire on police officers in the heart of Dallas during protests over two recent fatal police shootings of black men.

Five police officers were killed and six were injured in Dallas yesterday when snipers opened fire during a protest of the recent police killings of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling. This mass shooting was a despicable act of murder. It was also blowback. The motor of this spinning cycle of reciprocal bloodshed is

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Graphic Video Shows Black Man Die After Being Shot By Police In Front Of His Family

The shooting deaths of two black men within days by law enforcement officers are the latest in a spate of such cases that have made headlines nationwide in recent months.

Associated Press
By Associated Press
A woman rings the doorbell at the gate of the Governors Mansion as demonstrators gather in St. Paul, Minn., protesting a police involved shooting early Thursday, July 7, 2016. A Minnesota officer fatally shot a man in a car with a woman and a child in Falcon Heights, an official said. St. Anthony Police interim police chief Jon Mangseth said the incident began when an officer pulled over a vehicle Wednesday in the St. Paul suburb. Mangseth said he did not have details about the reason for the traffic stop, but that at some point shots were fired. The man was struck but no one else was injured, he said.

https://youtu.be/rDRSDvZxkPA FALCON HEIGHTS, Minn. — A Minnesota officer fatally shot a man in a car with a woman and a child, an official said, and authorities are looking into whether the aftermath was livestreamed in a widely shared Facebook video, which shows a woman in a vehicle with a man whose shirt appears to be soaked in blood

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