Tag: Police Brutality

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...

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...

Out of more than 2,000 lawyers in Cameroon, Alice Nkom and her colleague Michel Togué are the only two prepared to defend the human rights of the local LGBTQ community. Nkom has devoted her life to upholding these rights, as the queer community has always faced violence and brutality. In Cameroon, same-sex relationships are banned under the criminal code. Those convicted receive between six months and five years in prison, and fines ranging between 20,000 and 200,000 West African CFA...

On the cusp of commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the historic Stonewall Inn riots, which many historians cite as a spark for the modern movement for LGBTQ equality, New York police commissioner James P. O’Neill offered a long overdue apology on behalf of the force. “I think it would be irresponsible to go through World Pride month and not to speak of the events at the Stonewall Inn in June of 1969,” O’Neill said. “I do know what happened...