Policing

There's at least one line every Marine knows: “Never point a weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot.” The St. Louis County Police Department apparently never received …

A journalist was hit by a flash-bang fired by St. Louis County police dispersing a crowd, raising questions about how to use these military-style devices safely and appropriately.

In Ferguson, the world finally got a long, hard look at what a hyper-weaponized military-style United States police force looks like in action.

That's what the choice has always been: the colonialized mind versus the soul of independence, the known misery versus the challenge of the unknown.

Being poor was the only suspicion needed.

This is a teachable moment for the nation that presents an opportunity to transform policing so it serves the people.

The history of the US has taught us that Black life has not always been valued and now we are being reminded of that.

Here is a day-by-day chronology of what happened in Ferguson, drawn from the best reporting by journalists and witnesses on the ground.

Michael Brown's killing by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri is symptomatic of “the neoliberal killing machine” that's emerging all over the world.

A recent report from the ACLU indicates that policing is being militarized nationwide in all sorts of unsettling ways.