Demonstrators block traffic in Memphis after police released video footage depicting the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols.
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Black police officers can have bias against Black people – and act on it.
People attend a candlelight vigil in memory of Tyre Nichols in Memphis, Tenn., on Jan. 26, 2023.
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The death of a Black motorist after a beating by five Black Memphis police officers has triggered national outrage over police brutality and systemic racism with the U.S. criminal justice system.
Studies show that people belonging to marginalised groups are disproportionately affected by police brutality.
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When communities face security challenges and lack legal protection, they find innovative ways to respond.
#blacktwitter helped mobilize social protests against police brutality across the country, like this one in New York City in July 2020.
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Black Twitter is often the preferred forum for candid and authentic Black-centered discussions on police brutality. Without it, holding police accountable may become even more difficult.
Protestors marching for Chris Kaba observe a minute’s silence in his memory.
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For disproportionate policing to be effectively tackled, it is vital to understand the fear and hurt it creates.
Demonstrators stand off with officers July 3, 2022, in Akron, Ohio, as they protest the killing of Jayland Walker, shot by police.
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New research on police departments across the country reveals a significant link between the use of fatal force and college education – the more educated are less likely to use it.
Sound researchers believe sound is an element of resistance. Here a protester holds a ‘Black Lives Matter" megaphone at a protest in New York City in 2020.
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In today’s episode, we look at how sound and noise are used as tactics of protest and how practitioners are using environmental soundscapes to protest against racism and police brutality.
Chief James Ramer of the Toronto Police Service speaks during a press conference releasing the 2020 race-based data, at police headquarters in Toronto on June 15, 2022.
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The Toronto Police Service chief apologized to the public for the findings of an investigation that demonstrated the Toronto police’s excessive use of force on racialized residents.
A person holds a sign calling for to defund the police during an October 2020 protest in Ottawa after a police constable was acquitted of manslaughter in the 2016 death of a Black man, Abdirahman Abdi.
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Has the defund the police movement had an impact in Canada? It depends on how you define success.
A photo from a demonstration calling for police accountability and an end to police brutality in Vancouver, in May 2020.
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The greedy tendencies of police departments help illustrate why public police funding is a major problem today in Canada and the United States.
People protest in front of London’s Hackney Town Hall in March 2022, in solidarity with Child Q.
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Discussions of racism in Britain centre around the experiences and traumas of Black people, but rarely on the perpetrators.
Evidence shows that students are being arrested for minor misbehavior.
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School districts across the nation are wrestling with whether to have police officers on school grounds.
A culture of better service and use of minimal force are key to improving public confidence in the South African Police Service.
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Perceptions that South African police treat people disrespectfully, lack impartiality or transparency, and are prone to brutality
undermine public confidence in them.
Police officers from Kenya’s General Service Unit get ready to disperse demonstrators protesting against police brutality in Nairobi in July 2020.
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Police reforms have long been on the agenda of Kenya’s independence regimes, but progress remains painfully slow.
Rethinking what we mean by police sustainability, how we measure it and how we hold the police accountable for outcomes, may create the opening for a more viable path to reform.
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The continued reliance on outdated indicators of police performance reinforce conventional ideas of police sustainability rather than align with the concerns of “defund the police” advocates.
Young Nigerians holding up a banner at the 1-year memorial of the Lekki shootings.
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Young people’s use of technology such as Twitter shows that they are interested in politics and governance and have found a way to participate.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady celebrates after defeating the Kansas City Chiefs in the NFL Super Bowl 55 football game in February, 2021.
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Brady taking a knee is counter to both the man and the league. Nonetheless, had he done so, he would have been received much more favourably.
It has been one year since massive #EndSARS protests swept over Nigeria.
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One year after the #EndSARS protests, not much has come out of the investigations into the shootings and deaths that occurred across the country.
Sojourner Truth, born in 1797, was an escaped slave who became an abolitionist, civil and women’s rights campaigner, and met with Abraham Lincoln.
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Escaping slavery did not result in unconditional freedom.
According to experts, specialist police stations (such as women’s police stations) will need to be appropriately staffed by Indigenous and non-Indigenous officers trained to work from both gender and culturally sensitive perspectives.
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Establishing specialist women’s police stations has been suggested as a solution to violence against women in Australia. However research does not cover racial and gender inclusion in this policing.