Blue Bailout: Covid-19 Cash Is Militarizing Cops Across the Country
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How police departments are using pandemic funds to bulk up their high-tech arsenals
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Bodycam Footage Shows Chicago Police Shooting 13-Year-Old Boy With His Hands Up
Posted in: Culture NewsOfficials had claimed Adam Toledo had a gun in his hand when he was killed, but the new footage suggests those claims were false
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Cop Who Shot Daunte Wright Charged With Manslaughter
Posted in: Culture NewsKim Potter appeared to mistake her handgun for her Taser before fatally shooting the 20-year-old
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Did Police Corruption Derail the Long Island Serial Killer Investigation?
Posted in: Culture FeaturesBilly Jensen and Alexis Linkletter's new investigative podcast 'Unraveled: Long Island Serial Killer' looks at the case of disgraced police chief James Burke — and asks what the Suffolk County Police Department may have been hiding
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John Oliver Examines Damage Done by Over-the-Top Police Raids on ‘Last Week Tonight’
Posted in: TV & Movies NewsSegment opens with a delightful, if unrelated, tangent on the short-lived TV musical, Cop Rock
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Rochester Police Won’t Face Charges in Arrest Tied to Death of Daniel Prude
Posted in: Culture NewsA grand jury declined to indict cops who detained and knelt on Prude, who died seven days after the incident
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Kenosha Sheriff in 2018: ‘There’s Some People That Aren’t Worth Saving’
Posted in: Politics NewsSheriff David Beth called on shoplifters to be "warehoused" for life to stop "these males [from] going out and getting 10 other women pregnant."
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Mike Pence Spouts Copaganda in Convention Speech, Promises to Hold the ‘Thin Blue Line’
Posted in: Politics News"You won't be safe in Joe Biden's America," Pence warns -- after promising to prosecute those who topple statues, not those who shoot black men in the back
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The World Hasn’t Changed
Posted in: Political CommentaryRight after a white police officer shot Jacob Blake in the back, Republicans tried to scare voters by falsely painting Democrats and Joe Biden as crusaders against cops. If only
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Protests Break Out After Police Shoot Wisconsin Man
Posted in: Culture NewsJacob Blake's family called the lawyer who represents Breonna Taylor's family, George Floyd's family for assistance
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