Police State

'Breathtaking Assault on Our Rights': Privacy Advocates Decry London Police Plan to Use Live Facial Recognition Cameras

A display shows a facial recognition system for law enforcement

'Sit This One Out': FBI Slammed for Social Media Shoutout to Martin Luther King Jr.

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

"FBI, translated: Of all the people we have wiretapped, blackmailed, and tried to drive to their deaths through suicide, there are none we think more highly of than Dr. King."

'They Did it on Purpose': Protester Crushed Between Police Jeeps Latest Victim of Months-Long Chilean Crackdown on Dissent

Eoin Higgins, staff writer

Twenty-year-old Oscar Ignacio Pérez Cortéz was pinned between two police jeeps on Friday. He is expected to survive but sustained serious injuries.

The young man was seriously injured but is expected to survive.

'Monstrous': Docs Show Canadian Mounties Wanted Snipers Ready to Shoot Indigenous Land Defenders Blockading Pipeline

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

In response to the exclusive Guardian report, critics called the actions of...

Federal Study on Racial Biases in Facial Recognition Technology Confirms Warnings of Civil Liberties Groups

'The Law Is on Our Side': Extinction Rebellion Celebrates Dropped Charges Against 105 Climate Activists

Law Enforcement Crushing Pipeline Dissent in Minnesota at Water Protectors' Blockade of Enbridge Terminal

New Campaign Demands Congress Probe the 'Ever-Expanding Surveillance Empire' of Amazon

'Vindication' for Climate Activists as UK Court Rules London Ban on Extinction Rebellion Protests Unlawful

'Call It the Surge': Vowing Nationwide Crackdown, Trump Touts Tougher and More Militarized US Police

'Demand Justice in Her Honor': Outrage After Police Fatally Shoot Atatiana Jefferson in Her Own Home

'I Just Couldn't Be a Sellout': Rihanna Confirms She Turned Down Super Bowl Halftime Show In Solidarity With Kaepernick

Human Rights Defenders Condemn Iraqi Government After Security Forces Kill at Least 44 People in Anti-Corruption Protests

'Chilling': Mississippi City Claims Undocumented Man Killed by Police Had No Constitutional Rights

Capitol Hill Screening of Netflix Series 'Unbelievable' Part of Push to Reauthorize Rape Kit Backlog Law

It's Not Just Trump: New Report Details How Greed of 'Border-Industrial Complex' Fuels Militarization and Abuse

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We Hear You, Unless We're Saying You're Choking Us To Death and We Can't Breathe, In Which Case STFU

Marking this "holiday of horrors," another black guy dies - this time on video - another white cop walks. The failure of a New York grand jury to indict Daniel Pantaleo for choking Eric Garner to death quickly sparked a righteous wave of protests and furious chants of "This Stops Today." A stunningly tone-deaf NYPD offered the hashtag #Wehearyou and the vow they're "committed to rebuilding public trust." Hey NYPD: The people have had it. Eric Garner's father: "There is no justice system."