Photo by @SunSentinel's Mike Stocker: pic.twitter.com/yMHnMXuQYG. We’ll send you the top news, analysis and commentary from Truthout’s reporters and leading progressive thinkers, as well as the best reprints from other independent news sources. Holy shit, this is amazing.Cops in Flint, MI have laid down their batons and taken off their helmets after protesters chant #WalkWithUs.
Elsewhere, she co-hosts the pop culture podcast Overinvested. Get Truthout’s daily edition delivered to your inbox. “As leaders of this profession, we (Chiefs and Community) must all do better at improving on our training and protocols so that our efforts towards building and maintaining community trust are not lost or overshadowed,” said Diasgranados in a written statement. The fact that it’s an affluent, predominantly white city creates a different dynamic between police and protesters. “Words cannot make this right, and words cannot restore the trust broken this evening. Screenshot from video. Please do what you can to help us survive. Twitter user @NeeNeinNyetNo, for example, showed an image of Orlando Police praying with protesters and wrote, “Literally 45 minutes later they maced us in the face for the crime of standing in their vicinity.”, Literally 45 minutes later they maced us in the face for the crime of standing in their vicinity https://t.co/85a6zU2oJy, — Matzo Man (@NeeNeinNyetNo) June 1, 2020. Protesters gathered outside of the Coral Gables station house in Miami-Dade County on Saturday. In Santa Cruz, California, police chief Andy Mills took a knee on Saturday morning alongside the protesters. Local progressive activists described the Gables event as “anti-black.” Hours later, in downtown Miami, thousands gathered for a protest led by Miami Dream Defenders, where they were eventually met by Miami police in full riot gear. Yet community leaders in his home town have found reason to be critical of the police chief. But the same police department also shot tear gas canisters into crowds. WE SEE YOU pic.twitter.com/tsaW0f2OoO. https://t.co/mZ2dKbv1JQ. Roddy has defended or ignored a number of acts of violence by his own officers over the years despite community outrage, including an incident in 2018 where a 14-year-old Black girl was forcefully pulled out of a vehicle and arrested, resulting in injuries to her wrists. Think your friends would be interested? While smoke bombs go off at the #MIAMIPROTEST, at the Coral Gables #GeorgeFloydprotest earlier today, police take a knee in solidarity. A recently fired Miami Gardens police officer who was shown in a graphic video from January holding his knee to a pregnant Black woman’s neck while tasing her multiple times in … In Coral Gables, Florida, police officers knelt at a protest organised with the Miami-Dade Chiefs of Police Association. The gap between the images reveals rupture between a certain image of America and its reality. New Delhi: The countrywide on-going protests in the United States that has gone violent in the past few days witnessed a new turn on Monday (June 1, 2020) when the Miami Police … Tax Returns Show Trump Looting Treasury to Stave Off His Own Financial Disaster, From a Justice for Gender Equality to a “Justice” for Gender Oppression, The Fate of Our Rights Won’t Be Determined by Barrett, But by Popular Struggle, 1.8 Billion Tons More Greenhouse Gases Will Be Released, Thanks to Trump, Agribusiness Is Trying to Greenwash Its Dirty Waste as “Renewable Energy”, AOC Skewers Trump for Seeking Tax Write-Offs for $70,000 in Hair Styling Costs, Don’t Let Trump Use This Moment to Sneak in Domestic Terrorism Laws, Police Violence Protesters Were Hit With More Police Violence in US Capitol, Police Arrested Afro-Latino Reporter While Treating White Colleague “Politely”.
'Transparency during this time is key,' says Miami-Dade Corrections spokesman.
© Autonomous Nonprofit Organization “TV-Novosti”, 2005–2020. At least one other clip shows an officer taking a knee in solidarity, but these feel-good moments are massively outnumbered by examples of violence against New Yorkers. Only action.
The photograph showed police from departments across Miami-Dade county kneeling at a protest held in Coral Gables, Florida.
The photograph showed police from departments across Miami-Dade county kneeling at a protest held in Coral Gables, Florida. Politics. More than 50 people were arrested after peaceful protests escalated Saturday night in downtown Miami, according to figures from Miami-Dade Corrections. According to the 2010 census, just 3% of the local population is Black, compared to about 19% of Miami residents. Will you make a small one-time donation to get us all the way there? The crowd cheered and protesters peacefully dispersed afterwards.