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      We Need More Accountability, Not More Black Trauma Porn

      Instead of sharing video after someone is killed by police, it’s time to prioritize preventative measures.

      Dr. Katrina Gipson
      May 23, 2023

      When Black street performer Jordan Neely was murdered on a New York subway, four minutes of video by a freelance journalist captured the event, prompting last week’s protests and a nationwide outcry. This is part of an ongoing flood of video documenting violence against Black bodies.

      This month alone, body cam video showed Alabama police sending a police dog after an unarmed Black man and Minnesota officers mistakenly attacking a 65-year-old Black man using a walker (after the video had been suppressed for three years). Also, San Francisco supervisors unanimously passed a resolution demanding the release of video footage of the killing of Banko Brown, a 24-year-old Black transgender man killed in late April.

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      Demonstrators march down I-94 in St. Paul, Minnesota

      Who Gets to Talk About Police Reform?

      FAIR studies of New York Times coverage from George Floyd to Tyre Nichols.

      Julie Hollar
      Himadri Seth
      Isaiah Gutman
      Apr 30, 2023

      Since the brutal police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020, and the Black Lives Matter protests that spread across the country, how have news media covered issues of policing policy and police reform?

      To offer perspective on this question, FAIR looked at which kinds of sources have been most prominent in the New York Times‘ coverage of these issues, and therefore are given the most power to shape the narrative. We compared three time periods: June 2020, when the BLM protests were at their height; May–June 2022, leading up to and encompassing the two-year anniversary of those protests; and mid-January to mid-February 2023, when the police killing of Tyre Nichols was prominent in news coverage and reignited conversations around police reform.

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      The Movement to 'Stop Cop City' Is a Movement for Climate and Social Justice

      Clearing a valuable urban forest for the police training complex would continue a long, cruel, racist history of Atlanta land use.

      Stan Cox
      Apr 20, 2023

      Along the South River, in the southwest corner of DeKalb County, Georgia, lies a forested area of about 300 acres that has been owned by the nearby City of Atlanta for over a century. It was once part of a vastly larger wooded landscape, home to the Muskogee (Creek) people. They gave the river and forest the name "Weelaunee."

      In 2021, Atlanta officials decided to split 85 acres off this remnant of the Weelaunee forest and lease it to the Atlanta Police Foundation, a nonprofit organization, for construction of a $90 million tactical training center. If built, it will be one of the country's largest such facilities and include an entire "mock village" in which cops can practice doing the kinds of things cops do.

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