POLICE BRUTALITY

  • Democracy Now! May 30, 2003

    Exclusive: Democracy Now! Broadcasts for the First Time a Recording of a Police Sergeant Interrogating a Man Moments After Police Shoot him 5 Times, Paralyzing and Blinding Him. Farmworker Oliverio Martinez wails for help, says he is choking and dying, and pleads with the sergeant to stop. This week, the Supreme Court ruled that his…

  • Democracy Now! June 3, 2003

    Hour 1: Justice Department Report Finds Immigrants with no Ties to Terror Suffered Pattern of Physical and Verbal Abuse in Detention Facilities. The report does not recommend bringing criminal charges; Swiss Police Cut Rope Holding British Activist Hanging From Bridge, Sending Him Falling Dozens of Feet , and Raid the Independent Media Center, Beating Journalists;…

  • Democracy Now! June 3, 2003

    Justice Department Report Finds Immigrants with no Ties to Terror Suffered Pattern of Physical and Verbal Abuse in Detention Facilities. The report does not recommend bringing criminal charges; Swiss Police Cut Rope Holding British Activist Hanging From Bridge, Sending Him Falling Dozens of Feet , and Raid the Independent Media Center, Beating Journalists; Leaders of…

  • Democracy Now! October 25, 2002

    Tens of thousands to protest war: This Saturday is an international day of action with demonstrations from Washington DC and San Francisco, to Baghdad, Berlin, Madrid and Mexico City; Police Brutality in Brooklyn, a Democracy Now exclusive: High school counselors witness police brutality and become victims themselves; Police arrest sniper suspects: A conversation with filmmaker…

  • Democracy Now! April 8, 2003

    Hour 1: U.S. bombs Al Jazeera and Abu Dhabi TV offices in Baghdad killing one: We talk to Jihad Ballout from Al Jazeera; A president, viceroy, governor or sheriff? A look at Jay Garner, the U.S. general and defense contractor who is slated to versee post-war Iraq. Hour 2: Over 1,000 protest in Northern Ireland…

  • Democracy Now! March 14, 2003

    Hour 1: Will the Pentagon target journalists in Iraq? An interview with veteran BBC war correspondent Kate Adie ; Oakland police beat reporters and young people of color at otherwise peaceful rally: San Francisco Bay View journalist Ra shida Askey says police jumped her, slammed her head to the ground and beat her; San Francisco…

  • Democracy Now! August 26, 2002

    AFRICAN-AMERICANS PROTEST AGAINST POLICE SHOOTINGS IN MINNEAPOLIS/WORLD SUMMIT OPENS IN SOUTH AFRICA |[Headlines: African-Americans protest against police shootings in Minneapolis] World Summit On Sustainable Development opens in South Africa, and police attack protesters: we ll go to Johannesburg Thousands of farm workers marCh on the California capitol: a conversation with actor Ed Begley, Jr. Attorney…

  • Democracy Now! Ju;y 11, 2002

    POLICE BRUTALITY CAUGHT ON VIDEOTAPE/NAACP CHAIRMAN JULIAN BOND |From Inglewood, California to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: police brutality caught on videotape leads to police and FBI investigations as outrage mounts Then, as Bush infuriates African Americans by refusing to talk with NAACP leaders, we’ll hear about bush’s civil rights record from NAACP chairman Julian Bond. All…

  • Democracy Now! Ju;y 12, 2002

    POLICE BRUTALITY ON VIDEOTAPE/FINAL DAY OF AIDS CONFERENCE |Police brutality captured on videotape across the country: Police arrest the man who videotaped the scene of a white officer punching an unarmed black teenager in Inglewood, California. And in Oklahoma City, police investigate another police beating of another unarmed black man And then, government researchers to…

  • Democracy Now! April 30, 2002

    Tenth Anniversary Of The Rodney King Uprising In Los Angeles, Blue Gold: The Fight To Stop The Corporate Theft Of The Worlds Water ; Interview With Anti-Corporate Globalization Activist MAUDE BARLOW. |9:01-9:06 Headlines: type 9:06-9:07 One Minute Music Break MUSIC:6: WINDOW – Poem by Quraysh Ali Lansana Poets for Peace 20: KILLING IN THE NAME…