Police

20 Years Since The Rodney King Verdict Sparked Infamous L.A. Riots

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25 years after the Rodney King riots, the LAPD is still killing people

From LA to Ferguson, the conversation about race and police brutality continues.

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director Thomas Homan speaks at a news conference at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection headquarters in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, to discuss the operational implementation of the president's executive orders. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Immigration

ICE has no plans to stop arresting people at courthouses anytime soon

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television

How the makers of 'Shots Fired' are making America confront the reality of police brutality

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Immigration

Botched Chicago ICE raid leaves man in serious condition from gunshot wound

FILE - In this June 13, 2012, file photo, police officers and supporters clap as Officer Richard Haste, center, exits the courthouse after posting bail in New York. Haste pleaded not guilty to manslaughter charges in the shooting death of unarmed, black teenager Ramarley Graham. Haste was expected to offer his first public account of the slaying at his department disciplinary trial on Friday, Jan. 20, 2017. Haste initially faced a criminal manslaughter charge in the 2012 death of Graham, but the case was ultimately dismissed. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Police

NYPD cop who shot and killed unarmed black teen allowed to quit to avoid discipline

Chicago police officers line up outside the District 1 central headquarters at 17th and State streets, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2015, during a protest for 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, who was fatally shot and killed in October 2014 in Chicago. Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke was charged Tuesday with first-degree murder in the killing. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)

Criminal Justice

Investigation reveals yet another way Chicago police officers are getting away with misconduct

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The Naked Truth

In 'Radicals Rising' we take you to Europe's breeding grounds of hate

Travel with Fusion’s Mariana van Zeller to the European neighborhoods that have become breeding grounds for radicals.

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Social Media

Wyclef Jean was mistakenly detained by LA cops—and took video of the whole thing

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Politics

Esto es lo que pasa cuando los estados conservadores chocan con las ciudades liberales

ROMA, TX - MARCH 13: A U.S. border official detains an undocumented immigrant caught near the U.S.-Mexico border on March 13, 2017 in Roma, Texas. The Border Patrol has reported that illegal crossings from Mexico have dropped some 40 percent along the southwest border since Donald Trump took office. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

Immigration

ICE está empleando una práctica alarmante para arrestar a los inmigrantes indocumentados

ROMA, TX - MARCH 13: A U.S. border official detains an undocumented immigrant caught near the U.S.-Mexico border on March 13, 2017 in Roma, Texas. The Border Patrol has reported that illegal crossings from Mexico have dropped some 40 percent along the southwest border since Donald Trump took office. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

Immigration

ICE is using a deeply disturbing new tactic to arrest undocumented immigrants

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Immigration

How UCLA students hope to redefine ‘sanctuary campus’ to protect black, queer, and undocumented students

Protesters march in the rain, Sunday, Aug. 9, 2015, in Ferguson, Mo. Sunday marks one year since Michael Brown was shot and killed by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Race

Court documents reveal that the cop who killed Michael Brown used the n-word

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Police

This disturbing video shows a CA police officer beating a suspect and pulling a gun on witnesses

Sharon Cowan chants as she marches on the way to a candle light vigil on the spot where Mike Brown was killed on Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2016, in Ferguson, Mo. The demonstration marked two years since the unarmed black 18-year-old's fatal shooting by a white police officer. (J.B. Forbes/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)

Police

Newly released surveillance video casts doubt on Ferguson police narrative of Michael Brown’s death

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Crime

Why this man spent nearly a decade in prison for a murder he didn't commit

Police

Talking to 11 NYC women (and one man) on Women’s Day about striking, Trump, and why capitalism sucks

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Activism

The NYPD just arrested a group of Women's March organizers outside of a Trump building

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Politics

Here's what it looks like when 'law and order' laws pit red states against liberal cities

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Police

Video shows a cop shoving an 86-year-old woman to the ground during a Day Without Immigrants rally

February 28, 2017

Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks at the National Association of Attorneys General annual winter meeting, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Elections

Jeff Sessions is handling Chicago's police misconduct issues in a deeply disturbing way

February 28, 2017

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Police

The cop who shot and killed Philando Castile just pled not guilty

February 27, 2017

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Police

Father whose son was roughed up by armed off-duty cop: 'This is not right'

February 23, 2017

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Activism

Police forcibly evacuate #NoDAPL protesters from the main Standing Rock camp

February 22, 2017

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Police

Meet the 21-year-old Chicago organizer whose Rahm Emanuel takedown was heard around the world

February 21, 2017

President Donald Trump walks up the steps of Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Md., Friday, Feb. 17, 2017. Trump is visiting Boeing South Carolina to see the Boeing 787 Dreamliner before heading to his estate Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., for the weekend. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Politics

Donald Trump has been the president for one month. Here's everything that's happened.

February 20, 2017

RIVERSIDE, CA - AUGUST 12: ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations officers, in search of 32-year-old Hugo Medina, question his mother Magdalena Medina, 69, about his whereabout in a morning raid on his residence in Riverside. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials say they are relying more than ever on costly manhunts to locate immigrants in the country illegally who have criminal records. In the past, the agency would simply contact local jails where such immigrants were being detained and ask jail officials to hold them until an ICE van could pick them up, but hundreds of counties across the country stopped honoring such requests after a federal judge last year found that practice unconstitutional. (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Immigration

Trump inherited an immigration system that conducts raids more often than you think

February 15, 2017

In this Feb. 9, 2017, photo provided U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE agents at a home in Atlanta, during a targeted enforcement operation aimed at immigration fugitives, re-entrants and at-large criminal aliens. The Homeland Security Department said Feb. 13, that 680 people were arrested in roundups last week targeting immigrants living illegally in the United States. (Bryan Cox/ICE via AP)

Immigration

Immigrants who already fear Trump's deportation force face yet another awful threat

February 15, 2017

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Police

Horrifying footage shows NYPD officers tasering a pregnant teenager

February 15, 2017

Foreign nationals were arrested this week during a targeted enforcement operation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) aimed at immigration fugitives, re-entrants and at-large criminal aliens.

Immigration

ICE detained close to 700 immigrants in a five-day nationwide raid

February 13, 2017

Latonya Jones, 19, holds a photo of her mother, Bettie Jones, during a vigil on Sunday, Dec. 27, 2015, in Chicago. Jones and Quintonio LeGrier, 19, were killed early Saturday by police responding to a domestic disturbance on the citys West Side, police said. (Ashlee Rezin/Chicago Sun-Times via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT, MAGS OUT, NO SALES; CHICAGO TRIBUNE OUT

Police

No charges for Chicago cop who shot teenager Quintonio LeGrier and grandmother Bettie Jones in 2015

February 11, 2017

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Politics

Meet the young Muslim refugee taking white liberals to task in Minnesota

February 10, 2017

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Race

This movie shows how you can be no longer incarcerated—but still living in prison

February 07, 2017

An NYPD police car is seen on the parade route on 59th Street during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on Thursday, Nov. 24, 2016, in New York. (Photo by Scott Roth/Invision/AP)

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This Muslim-American cop alleges that the NYPD did nothing while she was viciously harassed

February 07, 2017

ADVANCE FOR JUNE 30 -In this Saturday, April 23, 2016 photo, members of the Ku Klux Klan participate in cross burnings after a "White Pride," rally, in rural Paulding County near Cedar Town, Ga. The Ku Klux Klan is trying to raise its hooded head 150 years after it was founded following the Civil War. Born in the ashes of the smoldering South after the Civil War, the Ku Klux Klan died and was reborn before losing the fight against civil rights in the 1960s.(AP Photo/John Bazemore)

Crime

Donald Trump is reportedly planning to roll back a major effort against white supremacists

February 02, 2017

Mel Gibson, left, and Vince Vaughn speak at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association Grants Banquet at the Beverly Wilshire hotel on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

Police

Literally everything about this Mel Gibson police brutality movie sounds horrifying

February 01, 2017

Beyonce performs at a Get Out the Vote concert for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at the Wolstein Center in Cleveland, Friday, Nov. 4, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Police

The Atlanta Police Department just tweeted–and deleted–this very unfunny tweet about Beyoncé's pregnancy

February 01, 2017

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Police

Police are finally atoning for the notorious lynching of a black man in Georgia almost 80 years ago

January 27, 2017

In this image provided by Morton County Sheriff’s Department, law enforcement and protesters clash near the site of the Dakota Access pipeline on Sunday, Nov. 20, 2016, in Cannon Ball, N.D. The clash came as protesters sought to push past a bridge on a state highway that had been blockaded since late October, according to the Morton County Sheriff's Office. (Morton County Sheriff’s Department via AP)

Police

Cops at Standing Rock are threatening a new crackdown on protests—and asking for Trump's help

January 25, 2017

Black Lives Matter demonstrators and supporters of Joshua Beal, who was shot to death by an off duty Chicago police officer, and a group supporting Blue Lives Matter gather Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016, in the Mount Greenwood neighborhood of Chicago. The predominantly white neighborhood on Chicago's southwest side has been rocked by confrontations between protesters and police supporters for the second time since the fatal shooting of a black man by police over the weekend.
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Police

Donald Trump just showed how little he actually cares about Chicago

January 25, 2017

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