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A revived Team Dynasty played against Metropolitan Police Department officers during the Halloween Bash on Friday, Oct. 27 at Riggs-Lasalle Community Center in Northeast D.C. (Roy Lewis/The Washington Informer)
Posted inCommunity

For One Night, Officers and Youth Get to Know Each Other on the Court 

by Sam P.K. CollinsNovember 1, 2023November 1, 2023

At a time when young people’s encounters with the police have become tenuous and, at times deadly, members of a Northeast community are making an effort to ensure that both groups become familiar with one another in a positive setting.  A group of student-athletes recently played a game of basketball against officers of the Metropolitan […]

**FILE** Andrew O. Clarke, lawyer for the Wilson and Martin families, and Dalaneo Martin’s mother, a member of the Coalition of Concerned Mothers, at a vigil for 17-year-old Dalaneo in March 2023 (Robert R. Roberts/The Washington Informer)
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Amid Conversation About Crime Prevention, Activists Raise Up Victims of Police Violence 

by Sam P.K. CollinsOctober 10, 2023October 10, 2023
**FILE** A Maryland State Police Chevy Caprice and Ford PIU at the Annapolis SP Barracks (Courtesy of Maryland GovPics via Wikimedia Commons)
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Maryland State Trooper Retires Amid Outcry Over Racially Offensive Photos

by WI Web EditorSeptember 1, 2023September 1, 2023
After examining the footage, the New York Times reported that Memphis police officers issued a barrage of confusing, conflicting commands when working to arrest Tyre Nichols, who they fatally beat on Jan. 7. Nichols died from his injuries Jan. 10. (Screenshot of video from Memphis Police Department)
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Multiple Cases Dropped Linked to Former Officers Charged in Tyre Nichols’ Death 

by Stacy M. BrownAugust 18, 2023August 18, 2023
close up photo of police siren
Posted inNational, Stacy M. Brown

Texas Police Mistakenly Hold Black Family at Gunpoint Due to Clerical Error

by Stacy M. BrownAugust 1, 2023August 1, 2023
Posted inCommunity

D.C. ACLU Files Lawsuit In Support of Local Organization

by Lindiwe VilakaziJuly 12, 2023November 30, 2023
close up photo of police siren
Posted inOp-Ed, Opinion

CLYBURN: Addressing the Issues Around Public Safety and Policing

by WI Web EditorApril 5, 2023April 5, 2023
Family and friends of Dalaneo “Debo” Martin march on March 26 from the 3300 block of Benning Road to the 300 block of 36th Street in northeast D.C., where a U.S. Park Police officer shot and killed teen Dalaneo Martin days earlier. (Robert R. Roberts/The Washington Informer)
Posted inCommunity

Family Members Challenge Narrative About Teenager Slain by Park Police

by Sam P.K. CollinsMarch 27, 2023March 27, 2023
Anacostia artist Yetunde Sapp painted this 8 x 12 ft. mural portrait of Breonna Taylor in Washington, D.C.'s Lafayette Square during Black Lives Matter protests in June 2020. (Justice for Breonna Taylor, Yetunde Sapp, 2020. Paint and spray paint on plywood. Photo by: Patrick Rogan, Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Institution. Gift of Levita Mondie and Yetunde Sapp)
Posted inBlack Experience, National, Stacy M. Brown

Federal Investigators Find Louisville Police Routinely Call Black People ‘Boy,’ ‘Animal,’ ‘Monkeys’

by Stacy M. BrownMarch 8, 2023March 8, 2023
**FILE** Yellow police tape on the East Plaza with the Capitol dome in the background on Wednesday, March 13, 2019. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Posted inCommunity

Youth Continue to Weigh In on Public Safety Issues

by Sam P.K. CollinsFebruary 28, 2023February 28, 2023

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