On April 19th, the day before the cop who murdered George Floyd was convicted, police officers in Alameda murdered Mario Gonzalez – pinning him facedown with their knee on his back even as he cried out for them to stop. Immediately after he died, the Alameda Police...
Demonstrations in Oakland Today! Mumia Abu-Jamal is a political prisoner in the United States. In 1981, Philadelphia police framed him for the murder of a cop. Why? He was an active organizer for the Black Panther Party and a journalist who challenged the racist...
Minutes before Derek Chauvin was finally convicted for murdering George Floyd, 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant was killed by a police officer in Columbus, Ohio. This barrage of killings of young Black people just as the justice system congratulates itself on holding police...
On April 20th a Minneapolis jury returned its verdict in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the cop who murdered George Floyd by kneeling on Floyd’s neck for nine minutes and 29 seconds. The jurors found him guilty of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and...
Derek Chauvin – the Minneapolis cop who choked George Floyd to death last May – has been on trial since the beginning of April. The trial is now in its final stages. The prosecution called scores of witnesses to make their case. A paramedic who was one of the first to...
