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Police brutality survivors and former cops are running for Chicago’s Police District Councils The councils are the first to be elected to police oversight bodies.
Chicago cops engaged in brutality, civil rights violations during summer protests: lawsuit The 203-page lawsuit was filed on behalf of 60 people who claim they were victimized by officers during ...
Last Saturday afternoon, I joined protesters marching in the Loop against police brutality and the murder of George Floyd. I had no intention of documenting the day. I’m a photographic artist ...
CHICAGO (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department on Friday is scheduled to release the findings of an investigation of the Chicago Police Department, and a law enforcement official says the report ...
The U.S. Justice Department on Friday is scheduled to release the findings of an investigation of the Chicago Police Department, and a law enforcement official says the report will show a pattern ...
And in recent years, police response to minor infractions have set off many protests against police brutality, including the 2014 killing of Laquan McDonald in Chicago.
The killing brought greater awareness to police brutality in Latino communities, yet no charges were filed against Stillman.
For many activists and community organizers in Chicago, George Floyd’s death was a reminder of their city’s history of police brutality against African Americans.
The Black Panthers organized the meeting to confront police brutality, and half a century later, the call for Community Control of Police looks like the ancestor of the Black Lives Matter movement.
At the United Nations, Chicago Activists Protest Police Brutality The activist group We Charge Genocide described alleged human rights violations to the UN's anti-torture watchdog.
Chicago Public School students will learn the details of a police-brutality scandal that rocked the city between the 1970s and the early 1990s.
Here are key moments in the police department's history that contributed to a reputation for brutality toward minorities.