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Death in Cell #5
A Sierra Leonean refugee named Oury Jalloh burned to death in Cell No. 5 in the city of Dessau, Germany. The date: January 7, 2005 Police at the station have called it… Full Transcript
Who Protects Whom?
A woman is stopped for a traffic violation. She tearfully explains that she is pregnant, she is bleeding, and she begs — at least a dozen times — to be taken to the hospital. She… Full Transcript
The Milwaukee Maulers
The case of three Milwaukee, Wisconsin ex-cops has ended in a verdict of acquittal. The case stems from the brutal beating of a young Black man, Frank Jude, who ventured to the home of one… Full Transcript
Baby Killers In Black and Blue (Version A)
Baby Killers In Black and Blue (Version B)
9. Police Shooting
Speaker 1 No I’m just talking about, like, what happened tonight. Speaker 2 I turned the corner. Here’s the police standing with a big ol’ stick. And he had it drawn back as though like,… Full Transcript
May 13
It has been eight years now since the massacre, eight years since the carnage on Osage Avenue, eight years since an urban Holocaust which stole eleven human lives, eight years since the unjust encagement of… Full Transcript
LA Outlaw
The federal trial of four Los Angeles cops, forced by the public orgy of rebellion and rage, which rocked the city a year before in response to acquittal stemming from the brutal Rodney King beating,… Full Transcript
A House is Not A Home
She sits in utter stillness. Her coffee brown features, as if set in obsidian, as if a mask, barely perceptible; the tears threatening to overflow that dark, proud maternal face, a face held still by… Full Transcript