Daily Archives: August 27, 2021

2021-08-27: News Headlines

WSWS (2021-08-27). Man brings civil lawsuit against Louisiana State Police after brutal assault by officers. wsws.org Newly released body camera footage shows a trooper strike Aaron Bowman in the head 18 times with a police issue flashlight while other officers held him down during a traffic stop in 2019.

Jim Mustian, Jake Beleiberg (2021-08-26). Uncovered video shows Louisiana cop beating Black man, inflicting 'pain compliance'. peoplesworld.org MONROE, La. (AP)—Graphic body camera video kept secret for more than two years shows a Louisiana State Police trooper pummeling a Black motorist 18 times with a flashlight—an attack the trooper defended as "pain compliance." "I'm not resisting! I'm not resisting!" Aaron Larry Bowman can be heard screaming between blows on the footage obtained by …

Anonymous Contributor (2021-08-26). Announcing the George Floyd Uprising Reader. itsgoingdown.org Announcing a collection of texts from the George Floyd rebellion across the so-called United States. A group of anarchists and autonomists in the Bay Area/ occupied Ohlone land collected writings animated by the 2020 uprisings that ignited the so-called United States after the police murder of George Floyd. Now just over one year after George…

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