Police Killings Rise Slightly, Though Increased Focus May Suggest Otherwise

By | May 1st, 2015|Police & Community|

Their names have become both a litany and rallying cry: Michael Brown. Tamir Rice. Eric Garner. Walter L. Scott. And now Freddie Gray.

Since Mr. Brown was fatally shot in an encounter with a Ferguson, Mo., police officer in August, so many unarmed black

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Prosecutors Charge 6 Baltimore Officers in Freddie Gray Death

By | May 1st, 2015|Intergroup Relations, Police & Community|

BALTIMORE — Prosecutors here, in an unexpected announcement, said Friday they have filed homicide, manslaughter and misconduct charges against police officers in the death of Freddie Gray, who died after sustaining a spinal cord injury while in police custody.

In a news conference, the state’s attorney in

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Smartphone app from ACLU of California aims to preserve videos of police

By | May 1st, 2015|Police & Community|

When George Holliday recorded grainy footage of Los Angeles police officers beating Rodney King outside his apartment in 1991, he sold the video to KTLA for $500 and watched it become a worldwide sensation. This year, a man used his cellphone to record a fatal LAPD shooting on skid row and uploaded the footage to

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Commission to help focus attention on issues facing undocumented Asian Americans

By | April 27th, 2015|Immigration, Intergroup Relations|

The dialogue around immigration might heavily revolve around the Latino population in California, but Karthick Ramakrishnan, associate dean of the University of California, Riverside School of Public Policy, says the Asian immigrant population should not be left out of that conversation.

Read more at 89.3 KPCC.

 

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