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Before Israel’s war on Gaza: Other times US campuses became battlegrounds

Students from Columbia and other US universities have protested the Vietnam war, the Gulf war and racism in the past.

Al Jazeera

‘Outdated and offensive’: police in England and Wales barred from blaming restraint deaths on ‘excited delirium’

The pseudoscientific term, made notorious by George Floyd’s murder in the US, will no longer be used by the police watchdog

The Guardian - UK

Senator Bob Casey Distances From Defund The Police Movement

Senator Bob Casey distances himself from defund the police movement, supports police funding and reform amidst re-election campaign. Advocates for police r...

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A child's dream to 'drive' a space shuttle propels him toward a historic NASA mission

Navy Capt. Victor Glover, who spent nearly six months aboard the International Space Station, will be among four astronauts to venture back to the moon for the first time since 1972.

WEKU

‘I wanted to find the humanity in kids seen as scumbags’: George Amponsah on his Scorsese-style thriller

He was obsessed with Scorsese while growing up. Now he’s made his own Mean Streets, about thieves falling into serious crime. The incendiary director talks about riots, police killings and redemption

The Guardian - UK

Florida Legislation Would Ban Civilian Police Oversight Boards

Florida Republicans and police unions insist that toothless civilian oversight boards are still more scrutiny than police deserve.

Reason

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Jon Ronson: Why We Went So Crazy During COVID Lockdowns

The Things Fell Apart host explains how a 1988 quack medical concept inspired George Floyd's death in 2020 and how Plandemic rewrote Star Wars.

Reason

Why We Went Crazy During COVID Lockdowns

The Things Fell Apart host Jon Ronson explains how a 1988 quack medical concept inspired George Floyd's death in 2020 and how Plandemic is basically a rewrite of Star Wars.

Reason

Employers' Talking "About Race—Any Race—With a Constant Drumbeat of Essentialist, Deterministic, and Negative Language" Risks Racial Harassment Liability

So a federal district court just held.

Al Jazeera

‘More mainstream’: In the UK, push for slavery reparations gains momentum

As PM Sunak refuses to engage, civil society is working harder than ever to remedy historic horrors.

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The Independent UK

Prosecutors urge rejection of ex-cop's bid to dismiss civil rights conviction in George Floyd murder

Federal prosecutors have urged a judge to reject former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin’s attempt to overturn his civil rights conviction in the murder of George Floyd

The Independent UK

Supreme Court rejects appeal by ex-officer Tou Thao, who held back crowd as George Floyd lay dying

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review the federal civil rights conviction of a former Minneapolis police officer who held back a concerned crowd while fellow officers pinned down a dying George Floyd

Fortune

Highest U.S. rookie police salary is in San Francisco at $112,000

Only 26 people graduated from the Californian city’s police academy and entered the force in 2023—down 72% from 2019.

International Business Times

US Cop Jailed For 14 Months Over Death Of Black Man

A white US police officer was sentenced to 14 months in prison Friday over the 2019 death of a young Black man who was put in a police chokehold and injected with ketamine.

The Guardian - UK

Head of Britain’s police chiefs says force ‘institutionally racist’

Exclusive: Gavin Stephens becomes most senior serving officer to accept discrimination in policing operates at a ‘fundamental level’

Reason

Who Killed Elijah McClain? Mixed Verdicts Reflect a Cascade of Ultimately Fatal Mistakes.

Juries convicted two paramedics and one police officer of criminally negligent homicide but acquitted two other cops.

The Independent UK

Missouri school board that previously rescinded anti-racism resolution drops Black history classes

A conservative-led Missouri school board has voted to drop elective courses on Black history and literature, five months after the same board rescinded an anti-discrimination policy adopted in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd

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