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A report published by the US justice department following the botched police raid that killed Breonna Taylor has found that Louisville’s Metro police department routinely engaged in a pattern of excessive force that deprived people of their rights.The litany of abuses revealed in the report comes amid a reckoning in the US with the brutality and racism of American policing.Here are five key takeaways from the report:LMPD uses excessive force, including unjustified neck restraintsOfficers were found to use neck restraints even against individuals who were not resisting, as well as those who had already been handcuffed or otherwise subdued. It…

From donating to marching to spreading the word, there are a number of ways to help L.A.’s black community and the Black Lives Matter movement. One of our favorites? With food, of course.  L.A. is home to a wealth of cultures and cuisines, so if you’re not sure where to start, a number of new apps and websites can help you find nearby black-owned restaurants, coffee shops, tasting rooms and retailers across the county. Some can pull up restaurants using your smartphone’s location, while others simply provide an overview, and there’s even one that serves as a virtual marketplace spotlighting sauces,…

Mr LePage was asked about a statement he made in January, in which he blamed the state’s heroin problem on “guys by the name D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty” who “come from Connecticut and New York”. “They come up here, they sell their heroin, then they go back home. Incidentally, half the time they impregnate a young, white girl before they leave,” he said.Speaking on Wednesday, he denied it was racist, but said that since January he had been putting together a binder cataloguing drug arrests in the state, and that “90-plus per cent of those pictures in my book, and it’s…

This story is part of a series originally produced by The Granite State News Collaborative and The Concord Monitor. You can read the first installment here.New Hampshire State Trooper Haden Wilber was stationed on Interstate 95 in Hampton one afternoon in February 2019 when he began following a car he found suspicious, a Toyota Camry with tinted windows and Connecticut plates.“The vehicle had drawn my attention to it due to how clean it was, given the age of the vehicle and current weather conditions in New England,” Wilber wrote in a police report.The driver was a Black man in his 20s. Wilber pulled…

(Photo courtesy of Sherrita Magalde) Sherrita Magalde, owner of Sheer Ambrosia BakeryOnce again, the country is reeling after another abhorrent death. Breonna Taylor. Darrien Hunt. Amaud Arbery, George Floyd. Countless others. Now, Jacob Blake.In response to these horrific and unjust deaths, we saw the Black Lives Matter movement gain traction and support this summer. As people all across the country continue to protest in the streets, tens of thousands of Utahns are expressing their own style of protesting – not only in the streets – but also with support for Black-owned businesses. By putting their money where it really counts,…

The smell of weed wafted beneath the cracks of my bedroom door. And I could hear the clink of their glasses. Some nights, they’d drink Crown Royal and Coca-Cola. But what I remember most is they never touched the bottle of Dom Perignon. Or maybe it was Perrier.It was a fancy bottle with a foil top and when I close my eyes I can still see there was a P on it. The bottle was bought to celebrate my birth, to be opened when I was old enough to taste it. But over the years we lost many homes and…

On a Saturday afternoon in January, Great Plains Hall in Arapahoe was packed with hundreds of people standing in line to bless themselves with cedar smoke, and visit with the very imposing 6-foot-long headdress. Hand-sewn and beaded, each of the dozens of eagle feathers adorning it commemorates one of Chief Black Coal’s greatest accomplishments.”It just makes you feel like he’s in the room and he’s watching us,” said Crystal C’Bearing, deputy director of the Northern Arapaho Tribal Historic Preservation Office. “He’s saying, ‘What kind of Arapaho person are you?’ So, it just makes you stand up straight when you see…

Joe Biden almost dropped out of the race to become the Democratic presidential nominee this year after several disappointing results in early voting states – until Black voters in South Carolina delivered him a resounding win.And while the race between the former vice president and Donald Trump remained too close to call on Thursday evening, it appears Black Americans once again stepped up to give the Democrat the backbone of his support, especially in key battleground states including Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.Record turnout among African American voters could be the difference between a Biden win and a Biden loss.“What…

‘Something needs to change – we owe it to the families’published at 20:34 Greenwich Mean Time 31 January20:34 GMT 31 JanuaryNada TawfikReporting from Washington DC I have just spoken to Todd Inman from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), which is currently investigating the aircraft collision.I asked Inman about Donald Trump’s post on Truth Social, external that the helicopter was “flying too high”. Inman says the NTSB will “analyse every fact”.He says the information “typically being discussed comes from, say ‘off-the-shelf’ software, what people may have seen on the internet,” adding that they are “not the facts that the NTSB…

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