Cross Post Now, Nation, Police Brutality

Thousands of officers will patrol New York City for the annual New Year’s Eve celebration amid inflamed tensions between the city’s police and the Black community, Capital News reports. RELATED: Ezell Ford Autopsy Results Released The police deployment will reportedly involve extra protection for officers in the aftermath of the recent murders of officers Rafael Ramos […]

You have to be a special kind of parasite to politicize death, but fortunately for those working in politics, media, and law enforcement such a strain can only serve to propel you in your field. It’s been less than a week since the shooting deaths of two NYPD officers at the hands of the clearly disturbed Ismaaiyl Brinsley, […]

Nation

The Huffington Post is reporting that #BlackLivesMatter, the social movement formulated to protest against violence and oppression in the African American community, officially condemned the “senseless” killing of two New York Police Department officers. RELATED: UPDATE: Obama Reacts To Revenge Shooting Of Cops, While Political Firestorm Brews #MarchOn: Nonviolent Protests From Selma To Ferguson and Beyond After […]

Crime

UPDATED Sunday, December 21, 2014 at 10:05 a.m., E.T. – A politically divisive firestorm has erupted in reaction to the killing of 2 police officers by a man who vowed on social media to “put wings on pigs” in retaliation for the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown. New York police union head Pat Lynch placed […]