Daily Archives: February 5, 2023

2023-02-05: News Headlines

Fight Back (2023-02-05). Denver students hold vigil in response to recent police killings. fightbacknews.org Denver, CO – On February 1, about 40 students from the Auraria campus community came out to show solidarity with the latest wave of victims of police brutality. Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), alongside the Black Student Alliance, held a vigil for Tyre Nichols, Manuel "Tortuguita" Paez Terán, and Keenan Anderson – each of whom were murdered by police in January. Students had the opportunity to speak out and voice their grief and anger towards these murders that continue to happen in the United States. | On January 3, Keenan Anderson, a cousin of a Black Lives Matter co-founder, was attempting to find hel…

_____ (2023-02-04). The Strike Is Our Most Powerful Weapon, Use It Against The Police! popularresistance.org So many of us have been marching against the police, challenging them in the streets and organizing massive demonstrations. In 2020, cop cars were set ablaze. A police station burned with an approval rating higher than the U.S. Congress! The consciousness of millions of people was deeply changed in the U.S. and around the world. | As the movement waned, our class enemies attacked us. As self-appointed leaders became millionaires, they led the movement to the Democratic Party, a party of police itself, as a backlash against the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement mounted. Both Democrats and Republicans whipped up fe…

Linn Washington (2023-02-04). Sickening Similarities In Police Assaults Evidence Resilience Of Racism. thiscantbehappening.net Editor's note: Exclusive new information about Mumia Abu-Jamal in the sidebar below. This article incorporates that information. Raw racism deeply embedded in law enforcement connects the fatal January 7, 2023 police beating of a Black man in Memphis, Tennessee with a vicious December 9, 1981 police assault on a Black man in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. That … |

teleSUR (2023-02-04). Sixth Police Officer Implicated in Tyre Nichols' Death Fired. telesurenglish.net A sixth Memphis (Tennessee, USA) officer was fired Friday in connection with the violent arrest in early January of African-American Tyre Nichols, who died from the beating he received. | RELATED: | Preston Hemphill, who had worked at the Memphis Police Department since March 2018, violated several policies, including rules regarding personal conduct, honesty and the use of a taser, police said in a statement. | The office…

Seth Galinsky (2023-02-04). Baluchistan protests: 'End death penalty! For freedom!'. themilitant.com Despite stepped-up harassment by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Basij thugs, thousands of protesters took to the streets in Iran's Baluchistan region Jan. 27 to call for an end to government repression. | The nationwide protests for "Women, life, freedom" that started Sept. 16 have declined since November. These began when Zhina Amini died after her arrest by the "morality" police for violating the country's dress code. | Thousands of protesters were arrested and more than 0 were killed by the regime's repressive forces. Smaller actions still take place, especially at the traditional Muslim ceremonies…




Dan Williams (2023-02-04). Death of Tyre Nichols renews calls for police reform. america.cgtn.com It has been one week since Memphis police released the video of officers brutally beating Tyre Nichols in early January. The 29-year-old died from his injuries three days later. His death has prompted fresh calls for police reform.

Sam Manuel (2023-02-04). Memphis cops charged with murder in killing of Tyre Nichols. themilitant.com ATLANTA — Five members of a Memphis police specialized "crime suppression" unit were fired and charged with second-degree murder and other felonies Jan. 26 after city authorities reviewed videos showing them brutally beating Tyre Nichols 19 days earlier. The 29-year-old FedEx worker died three days after the beating. The video was released to the public Jan. 27. | Memphis is 64% African American and both Nichols and the cops who beat him to death are Black. The cops arrested were Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Emmitt Martin III, Desmond Mills Jr. and Justin Smith. | Three EMTs have since been fired for vi…

Dan Williams (2023-02-04). Death of Tyre Nichols renews calls for police reform. america.cgtn.com It has been one week since Memphis police released the video of officers brutally beating Tyre Nichols in early January. The 29-year-old died from his injuries three days later. His death has prompted fresh calls for police reform.

Sam Manuel (2023-02-04). Memphis cops charged with murder in killing of Tyre Nichols. themilitant.com ATLANTA — Five members of a Memphis police specialized "crime suppression" unit were fired and charged with second-degree murder and other felonies Jan. 26 after city authorities reviewed videos showing them brutally beating Tyre Nichols 19 days earlier. The 29-year-old FedEx worker died three days after the beating. The video was released to the public Jan. 27. | Memphis is 64% African American and both Nichols and the cops who beat him to death are Black. The cops arrested were Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Emmitt Martin III, Desmond Mills Jr. and Justin Smith. | Three EMTs have since been fired for vi…

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