DN! VIDEO | Black Lives Matter vs. the LAPD: Are the Police Unfairly Targeting & Surveilling the Movement?

What the unit is actually called is a cyber-unit. It’s one that isn’t talked about a lot. … But we were able to get enough to know and to see that this was the format in which they had engaged. Some of the photos they gave us had people’s names right above their heads. And the way that the people’s names were, were the same type of way, in terms of the printing, that we see in surveillance photos with the feds, but this was being done by LAPD.

John Steppling: Hollywood, the Police and the Poor

Urban spaces are racialized. In spite of the gentrification processes displacing the racialized poor and working classes, it has become very difficult to negate the continued disenfranchisement, incarceration, and killing of black and brown bodies. By John Steppling  Truthout | Film Review December 21, 2014  (Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) In fact, gentrification processes likely exacerbated the economic More

You Can Arrest an Idea> Robert Scheer

You Can Arrest an Idea Robert Scheer    Dec 1, 2011   truthdig via RSN A Los Angeles Police Department officer stands guard on the eve of the city’s eviction of the Occupy L.A. protest.   AP / Dan Steinberg The bankers slept well. Their homes in Beverly Hills were not spotlighted by a noisy swarm of police helicopters, More

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