Shooting to kill

Shortly after two St. Louis police officers shot and killed 25 year old African American Kajieme Powell on Tuesday, St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson said at a press conference that Powell had approached officers with a knife raised in an overhand grip, and was within three or four feet…

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85 Bullets

Amazing.  In Germany, a nation with a population of 82 million people, German police shot a total of 85 bullets in all of 2011.  85.  Are you freakin’ kidding me???  They fired a grand total of 85 bullets in an entire year. Meanwhile, in the U.S., where the population is…

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Raw Footage of the Oakland Police Response

I haven’t seen scenes like this since London this past summer or Greece this past spring.  The police had no obvious reason to react the way they did with tear gas and flash bangs.  They swarmed in with lathi sticks swinging and took down the protesters.   Unarmed protesters exercising…

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