(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.
(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.
(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…
(2023-01-12). Maryland medical examiner who testified at Derek Chauvin trial to be audited for rulings in 100 police-custody deaths. therealnews.com 
Former Maryland state medical examiner
(2023-01-12). Denver police officer indicted by grand jury after police shooting injures. fightbacknews.org Denver, CO – On January 4, Denver police officer Brandon Ramos was indicted by a grand jury for his actions on July 17, 2022. Ramos and two other officers, Megan Lieberson and Kenneth Rowland, fired their weapons into a crowd of people in an attempt to kill Jordan Waddy, a 21-year-old Black man, who held his hands in the air after throwing away his weapon. Waddy and six other people were injured in the mass shooting. | While Lieberson and Rowland will not see charges from the grand jury, Ramos was charged with two counts of second degree assault (reckless); three counts of third degree assault (knowing/reckless);…
(2023-01-12). Police in Perú kill more protesters resisting coup. fightbacknews.org Tucson, AZ – On December 7, a month of people's protests was kicked off when democratically-elected President Pedro Castillo, a former union educator and strike leader, was arrested by Peruvian armed forces in a coup by the oligarchy-dominated Congress. Peruvians, from indigenous groups to trade unions, immediately responded with waves of protests, marches and roadblocks. Following the orders of the coup plotters, the military and police cracked down violently on the protests, including firing on protesters from helicopters with bullets and teargas. A loosely agreed-upon truce before the holidays stopped the brut…