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  • Kimani Gray and Two Weeks of Struggle in Flatbush, Brooklyn

    Daily demonstrations in Flatbush began two weeks ago, after 16-year-old Kimani Gray was gunned down by two plainclothes cops with lengthy histories of misconduct, who ambushed the young man on the street, jumping from a vehicle and discharging seven shots, three into his back. Full story

    2013 Mar 25 Jarrod Shanahan News
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  • Testilying: Cops Are Liars Who Get Away with Perjury

    Misrepresentation, deception, and outright lying appear to be part of a police officer’s job description, so much so that the term “testilying,” now common vernacular for police falsifications, was actually coined by NYPD officers as something of an inside joke. Full story

    2013 Feb 3 Nick Malinowski News
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  • Chipping Away at Stop-and-Frisk

    Fifty-one-year-old Charles Bradley finished his shift as a security guard and took the subway to visit his estranged fiancée at his former house in the Bronx. It might have been a night of reconciliation. But instead, it was a night spent interrogated in a van and strip-searched… Full story

    2013 Jan 20 Krishna Andavolu News
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