Cops Launch Racist Coup in Virginia
The Portsmouth, Virginia Police Department has launched a de facto COUP against the city’s Black political leadership, using obscure Jim Crow laws to try and jail those who oppose them. It all stems from the fight over the Confederate statues and the notorious Fraternal Order of Police. BreakThrough explains.
Hunger Striking Black Mom Seeks Answers in Son’s Death
This is not a cold case.” We speak with Dannielle Brown, a Black woman who has been on hunger strike for two months demanding answers about her son Jaylen’s death. According to police, he jumped out of a dorm room in front of multiple officers and campus security at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh […]
Fast Food Workers Shut It Down | On the Picket Line, 9/9
Check out our new weekly segment “On the Picket Line”, a round-up of workers’ struggles! Fast food workers strike and shut it down in Durham, N.C.; UFT strikes deal with the NYC Mayor; New Orleans sanitation workers enter 18th week of strike; labor support of Black Lives Matter.
Persecuting Assange: the Stakes for All of Us
Proceedings against Julian Assange begin today. It’s an effort to intimidate all media outlets that dare publish the Empire’s secrets. WikiLeaks isn’t being punished for telling lies, but for revealing the truth.
2020 09 04 NYC Press Conference
“Powerful message to the NYPD from the organizers of the demo a car drove through on Thursday. Kimberly Bernard said, “The message remains the same, the same message we had on the first day when George Floyd was murdered. Abolish and defund the police!”
Chaos and Crisis: What If Neither Trump or Biden Concede?
On Election Night 2020, the map could show Trump with an overwhelming victory, only to be reversed by the counting of mail-in ballots. We could be headed to the most volatile election in U.S. history, with both candidates refusing to concede. Could this lead to violence on the street? Monica Cruz of BreakThrough analyzes the […]
Breonna Taylor: Prosecutors Offer Deal to Her Ex to Smear Her as Drug Dealer
Prosecutors are trying to smear Breonna Taylor as a drug dealer. Breonna Taylor’s ex-boyfriend, Jamarcus Glover, was arrested on drug charges on August 28th A day after he told a newspaper that Taylor was not involved in drug trafficking. Prosecutors offered him a plea deal, but only on one condition. if he said Breonna […]
California Dems Coddle Cops
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies are in the spotlight this week after killing another person on August 31st, and after new details have emerged of a literal police gang inside the Sherriffs department — known as the Executioners — in which cops are initiated by violence and rewarded for brutalizing and killing community members. […]