Tag: Black Lives Matter
Philadelphia fires 13 cops for posting anti-LGBTQ & racist comments online
Thirteen police officers in Philadelphia will be fired after they were found posting racist, homophobic, and transphobic messages on social media. The social media posts were found by the Plain View Project, which tracks hate speech by law enforcement officials.
Police Commissioner Richard Ross said yesterday that 328 police officers were included in the database and that the 13 who were fired were the worst offenders with the most violent posts. Four additional officers were suspended for 30 days and must undergo...
Pete Buttigieg shut down a supporter who tried to blame black people for police...
At an Iowa Democratic Party barbecue in Carroll County on Thursday, a man named Dave Bagley told South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg that recent troubles between South Bend, Indiana’s police department and its local black community would improve if black people would just “stop committing crime and doing drugs.”
During a Q&A portion of the barbecue, Bagley said, “Mayor Pete, there has been some controversy in South Bend between the police and the black community, and I have a solution...
Black Lives Matter protestors confront Pete Buttigieg after a police shooting
This Friday, Mayor Pete Buttigieg expected to be at a Democratic party fish fry in South Carolina with his fellow presidential candidates. Instead, he flew back home to South Bend, Indiana where he was faced by Black Lives Matter protesters upset over the death of Eric Logan. Logan, a 54-year-old black man, was shot by a police officer who had his body cam turned off.
At approximately 6:30 p.m. yesterday, Buttigieg arrived at the South Bend Police Department and faced...
Pride Toronto considers banning police from parade after Black Lives Matter demands
Pride Toronto has apologised for perceived “anti-blackness” and launched a process to consider whether to ban police units from marches, after demands from Black Lives Matter protesters.
In July, the Canadian city’s Pride parade ground to an unexpected halt when Black Lives Matter protesters disrupted the event, refusing to let the march continue until organisers agreed to a string of demands.
The group, who criticised the event’s alleged “anti-blackness” in an official statement, only agreed to let the parade continue when Pride Toronto organisers signed...
