Tag: Anti-Police Activists

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Banks in Arizona Vandalized by Protesters of Atlanta Police Training Center

Shattered glass, broken windows, and words spray painted on buildings carried a message Sunday night in downtown Tucson, with “no cop city” written to reference a police training center in Atlanta.

February 29, 2024

Patrol

Former Police Critic Now Urging Public to Support Law Enforcement

"The truth is that more than 70% of African-Americans and Hispanics and more than 80% of white Americans, according to recent polling, want the same or more law enforcement," Reverend Markel Hutchins said

October 11, 2023

Point of Law

Federal Court Rules Officer Injured in Protest can Sue Activist

The July 2016 protest took place outside the Baton Rouge Police Department in the aftermath of the killing of Alton Sterling. The plaintiff officer was injured during the demonstration when he was struck by a rock or a similar object.

June 27, 2023

Training

Atlanta Council Approves Funding for “Cop City” Training Center After 13 Hour Meeting

Shortly before 5: 30 a.m. Tuesday, having exhausted all speakers, the City Council passed the vote to the boos of the crowd that still remained.

June 6, 2023

Featured

LA Police League Sues Anti-Cop Website Owner Over Alleged “Bounty”

The recent release of more than 9,300 LAPD officers’ information has caused a furor within the department after it was requested by police abolitionist group called Stop LAPD Spying Coalition. It also mistakenly included the names of undercover officers.

March 28, 2023

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Civil Rights Lawyer Charged with Domestic Terrorism in Attack on GA’s “Cop City”

"An employee at the SPLC was arrested while acting — and identifying — as a legal observer on behalf of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG). The employee is an experienced legal observer, and their arrest is not evidence of any crime, but of heavy-handed law

March 7, 2023

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The Infuriating Irony of Protesters' Opposition to 'Cop City' Training Facility

Demands for increased quality and quantity police training will only be successfully met when myopic anti-police politicians, members of the press, and radicalized protesters get out of their own way and let it happen.

February 17, 2023

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Training in the Era of De-Policing: Developing Law Enforcement Leaders

As horrendous as the effects of de-policing have been—in many places a society looking a lot like a combination of Mad Max and The Purge—those effects may eventually be outweighed in the long run by an increased emphasis on training the next generation of police leaders.

March 28, 2022

Command

Activists Threaten New NYPD Mayor with Riots if Anti-Crime Units Re-Established

“If he thinks that they’re going to go back to the old ways of policing, then we are going to take to the streets again. There will be riots, there will be fire and there will be bloodshed because we believe in defending our people,” said Hawk Newsome, co-founder of Black Lives Matter of Greater New York, after a heated meeting with Adams in Brooklyn Borough Hall.

November 11, 2021

Command

Activists Want Florida Chief Demoted for Speaking at Christian Retreat

The activists plan to hold a news conference Thursday at city hall, calling on the mayor and city commissioners to denounce the chief's actions, and asking that he be removed as police chief.

October 27, 2021

Patrol

Violence Rising in VA City's Schools After Removal of SROs

“I’m pleading with the City Council this evening that we reinstate our school resource officers immediately,” said Gregory C. Hutchings Jr., Superintendent of Schools, Alexandria.

October 12, 2021

Patrol

Radical Group Adds "Defund the Police" Message to Memphis Billboards

Monday night, an anti-police group called Indecline, who labels themselves a guerrilla activist art collective altered two Geico ads on the Interstate.

October 5, 2021