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Officer and Lawyer Co-Author ‘Black Man’s Guide to Survival’ for Police Encounters

It was the past year being filled with wall-to-wall news coverage focusing on police-involded deaths of unarmed black men, from Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, to Christian Taylor in Arlington, Texas, that encouraged attorney Eric Broyles and his friend Officer Adrian Jackson to write a how-to handbook called Encounters with Police: A Black Man’s Guide to Survival.

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Why White People Seek Black Privilege

Dolezal and King make it clear that America’s attempts to repair the effects of that horrific history have now made black skin advantageous for a certain subset of activists, which is why people like Dolezal and now allegedly King have masqueraded as black for personal advantage.

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Number of African-American Cops Slowly Dwindling in Philadephia

For several years, the number of new African-American recruits joining the Philadelphia Police Department has been declining, and now some blacks in Philly, who have recently tried and failed to join the department, are starting to wonder if the city is purposefully denying blacks entry to the department.

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Gallup: Confidence In Police At 22 Year Low

Gallup reports that while a majority of Americans, 52 percent, still say they have “a great deal” or “quite a lot”of confidence in the police, that level is the lowest the poll has seen since 1993. Gallup attributed the decline in confidence to recent police actions in cities such as Ferguson, Missouri, Staten Island, New York, and North Charleston, South Carolina where black men were killed by white police officers.

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Four Weeks Later: Waco Police Narrative Unravels

As bikers gear up for a planned peaceful protest on Sunday, while more of the bikers arrested after the deadly May 17th shooting incident outside a Waco Twin Peaks restaurant are released, and more details come out about the men and women detained and the circumstances of their arrest, more troubling unanswered questions remain about Waco police’s account of the incident.