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If ALEC can make laws, so can Daily Kos! The Michael Brown Over-Policed...
Please help hone our new statute into a keen razor to scrape away scoundrels and malevolent policies and practices from our police departments. Our families need this law. Our grandchildren need this...
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Another Case of the Black Boogeyman? Or, the Boogeyman Strikes Again!
An 18 year old student is missing and the police is looking for a black man in connection with her disappearance.The police is quite anxious to speak to this black man because a witness said he saw him...
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If ALEC can make laws, so can Daily Kos! For These We TAKE ACTION:
The Reverend Dr. William Barber challenged us to use our anger to change the world. We are angry, and therefore we are working to change the racist culture of policing in this country. Since Michael...
View Article"You didn't need to shoot me, sir!" ... How to Police the Police (Draft 5)
Levar Jones: "What did I do?" ..."What did I do, sir?" ..."Why did you – why did you shoot me?" ..."I’m sorry." ..."Why did you pull me over? I was just pulled into the gas station." ..."Sir, I didn’t...
View ArticleA Mother's Pain: Michael Brown's Mom Speaks to Steve Harvey
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View Article*Take Action!* The Michael Brown Over-Policed Rights Act (Draft 6)
We on this site have ranted, raved, and expressed our outrage as one incident after another of police brutality has come to light. We have sent diary after diary detailing police brutality to the top...
View ArticleMichael Brown Over-Policed Rights Act of 2015 (Federal)
THE MICHAEL BROWN OVER-POLICED RIGHTS ACT OF 2015Section 1 (a) UNIVERSAL REPORTING REQUIREMENTS. All policing jurisdictions shall report the following information every twelve months to the...
View ArticleMichael Brown Over-Policed Rights Act of 2015 (State)
THE MICHAEL BROWN OVER-POLICED RIGHTS ACT OF 2015Section 1 (a) UNIVERSAL REPORTING REQUIREMENTS. All policing jurisdictions shall report the following information every twelve months to the...
View ArticleLaw! Cameras! Action! We promote the Michael Brown Over-Policed Rights Act of...
Since last Friday, thug-police have filled our pages with brutality and over-policing: A NYPD officer punched a teenager for smoking as he walked home. Another officer smashed a car's passenger window...
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Not Talk, Walk. To Stop Bad Police, Fix the Law, Police the D**n Police: Good...
70 days ago, a young unarmed American boy was gunned down on a hot August street in Ferguson, Missouri. People saw, people heard, and witnesses spoke up; but the killer is still...
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RIP, John Holt. Another legend exits the stage
I bet you know the group Blondie and their smash hit, The Tide is High; but do you know who wrote and first recorded that song? Aha. John Holt was the lead singer for the trail-blazing group, The...
View ArticlePeople...Humans - Perfectly Imperfect
H/t to John Legend. No deep thoughts really, but Kos did say we can write whatever, whenever. :)Elisabeth Kübler-Ross:“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known...
View ArticleHow Do We Go Forward? Why Should We? Police Thugs: Serve Them Justice. (Week 11)
After the shellacking we took this week, some people are ready to give up. "Not another mountain to climb," weary warriors groan.One reason we cannot stop fighting now is demonstrated in Vest or Vote,...
View ArticleWhinin' and Groanin'? Enough! Use the Law to Fight Back. MBOPRA (Week 12)
As you may know, our primary goal in starting this series was to find a way to fight back against police brutality; to crowdsource a law that would police the police. We did that. And some funny,...
View ArticleWe Are Family...We Take Care of Our Own
What if you were told of a family member who is suffering from debilitating health and financial issues, and you had the ability help, would you? Of course you would, because here on the GOS more than...
View ArticleWaiting for the Missouri Grand Jury ... Governor Nixon, We Have a FOIA...
... but we need a Missouri resident to file the request. We also need residents in 16 other states to step up. Residents in 3 states have already stepped up! (See chart below.)We have come to...
View ArticleMurderers need to get better scriptwriters
Seriously. Hint, murderers, nobody talks like that! No, please listen to me, Hollywood will not even take that script. Zimmerman:"He was on top of my…I shot him, and I didn't think I hit him because he...
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And yet another UNARMED black man SHOT DEAD by police
This time in Phoenix, Arizona. Thirty-year-old Rumain Brisbon on his way to drop off lunch for his daughters, accosted and killed by 30-year-old unnamed white police officer.It's "open season for...
View ArticleCharles Barkley is an idiot and Van Jones sets him straight
I saw Charles Barkley unintelligible, garbled nonsense of an analysis about the murders of Michael Brown and Eric Garner and was embarrassed for him. The truth is, the loudmouth should never have been...
View ArticleThe Frankenstein We Have Created (Police rep speaks to MSNBC)
The president of Cleveland’s police union, Jeffrey Follmer, was on Chris Hayes's show on MSNBC last night and what he had to say, coupled with how he said it, was frightening. With the bravado of a...
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