A New Report Paints a Damning Picture of Police Killings in the Bay Area
Protesters block the Golden Gate Bridge on June 6.Vivian Lin/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Just 7 percent of the population of the San Francisco Bay Area is Black, yet 27 percent of the people killed by the police in the region since 2015 were Black, according…
Racist N.C. Cops Caught on Video Calling for a “Civil War” to “Wipe ‘Em off the Fucking Map”
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.On June 4, a little over a week after the death of George Floyd, a Wilmington, North Carolina, police sergeant conducting routine checks of dash-cam footage found video of two cops discussing, among other things, the arrival of “martial law.” “We are…
A Florida Cop Killed Tony McDade. Now He’s Hiding Behind a Law Meant to Protect Victims.
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.The shooting death of Tony McDade followed a painfully familiar formula. On the morning of May 27, two days after George Floyd’s life was stamped out under the knee of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, Tallahassee police responded to a report of…
Google Workers Are Demanding That the Company Stop Working With Police
The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Images For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.In a new letter, more than 1,600 Google workers are demanding that the company end its work with police departments across the country. “The past weeks have shown us that addressing racism is not merely an…
Detroit Teens Are Teaming Up to Paint Murals of Justice
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Artists are doing their best in Detroit, and around the country, to celebrate the progress and inspire more like it as the protests against police violence and racial injustice continue. Dozens of teens are using paint rollers to create a massive mural…
Defunding the Police Doesn’t Poll Well. That Doesn’t Matter.
Anthony Behar/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Black feminists have led the movement on defunding and eventually abolishing the police, and gradually the idea has gained momentum across the country. Since the killing of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis Police Department on Memorial Day,…