2023-01-14: News Headlines

Jake Johnson (2023-01-13). Keenan Anderson, Cousin of Black Lives Matter Cofounder, Killed by LAPD. truthout.org Harrowing video footage released this week shows officers with the Los Angeles Police Department forcibly restraining and repeatedly using a Taser on 31-year-old Keenan Anderson — a high school teacher and cousin of Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors — following a traffic accident. Soon thereafter, Anderson was transported to a local hospital where he suffered cardiac arrest and died. |

WSWS (2023-01-13). Los Angeles police begin new year killing 3 people in just over 24 hours. wsws.org Takar Smith and Oscar Leon Sanchez were both shot and killed by police while Keenan Anderson, a teacher and cousin of Black Lives Matter Founder, Patrice Cullors, suffered a cardiac arrest after he was repeatedly choked and tased while in police custody.

WSWS (2023-01-13). Los Angeles police begin new year killing three people in just over 24 hours. wsws.org Takar Smith and Oscar Leon Sanchez were both shot and killed by police while Keenan Anderson, a teacher and cousin of Black Lives Matter Founder, Patrice Cullors, suffered a cardiac arrest after he was repeatedly choked and tased while in police custody.

Isheka N. Harrison (2023-01-13). Black English Teacher Killed By LAPD After Predicting 'They're Trying to George Floyd Me'. moguldom.com Another Black man has died after being tased seven times by police from the LAPD while being detained for his involvement in a traffic accident. Keenan Anderson, 31, died on Jan. 3, of cardiac arrest nearly four-and-a-half hours after being forcibly restrained by officers from the Los Angeles Police Department. Anderson was an educator and …

Chris Hedges (2023-01-13). "America made me a Black man" therealnews.com Boyah J. Farah fled the war in Somalia arriving in the United States as a refugee with his mother and siblings when he was fifteen. His romantic dreams of America quickly ran into the dark undercurrents of American racism. Living in a housing project in Bedford, Massachusetts he was forced to discover the curse of being Black in America, the daily humiliations and small, but insidious ways he was made to constantly feel an outsider by whites. He watched as other Somali families succumbed to the poison of American racism, writing that although they had survived the war in Africa, American broke them and carr…

_____ (2023-01-13). Peru: Police Brutality Leaves A Minor Dead In Cusco. popularresistance.org On Thursday, the Peruvian police used tear gas and firearms to harshly repress the population, leaving a minor dead and more than 50 people injured in the city of Cusco. | Peruvians once again took to the streets in Lima and in various departments to demand the resignation of President Dina Boluarte, the holding of early general elections this year, and the release of former President Pedro Castillo. | The National Human Rights Coordinator (CNDDHH) of Peru demanded the immediate release of the social leaders detained in Ayacucho during the protests against Boluarte. Hundreds of people gathered in front of the Aya…

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