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By WENDY RUDERMAN
Philadelphia Daily News
rudermw@phillynews.com 215-854-2860
AS A NEWS video of police beating and kicking three shooting suspects is seen around the world, attorneys for the battered men are claiming that Philly cops concocted their story to cover up for a case of mistaken identity - an allegation police vehemently [...]

Watch the parrot media “debate” start to explain that it is all (a) under control because of official investigations and (b) probably understandable because police “emotions were running high” for justified reasons. Police have “broad leeway” and after all “state of mind is important.” Amazing.

This article was  originally published by A World to Win News Service.  The video evidence of the police assault on Ian Tomlinson is posted below, followed by the AWTW article.

The video above shows the beating of Ian Tomlinson by a member of the London police. Ian died soon after.
Several things to note while watching this [...]

Sean Bell was killed in a barrage of 50 police bullets on the night before his marriage. Now the murdering police have been acquitted of all charges. The judge said that the police version had more “credibility.”
What does this verdict say about what a Black person’s life is worth in this country?
What does it say [...]

As the trials of RNC activists come closer, one of the government’s key agent provocateurs has “outed” himself (sending an unapologetic confession to Indymedia  and others — containing the twisted argument that his police activity was for the good of activists with “pure intentions.”)
In that statement he says:
“The simple truth is that I have chosen to work [...]

On Thursday, a 25,000 strong demonstration was held in the Danish capital Copenhagen. This was a reaction against forced deportation of a group of Iraqi refugees, as well as police brutality against peaceful demonstrators who tried to stop the police from arresting the Iraqis who had taken refuge in a church in Copenhagen.

Kasama received the following report on an outragious LAPD raid on an Anarchist gathering on Nov. 16. 
Anything We Do is a Threat to the System: 
Account of the Police Raid on Sunday 
by Joaquin Cienfuegos
“It’s a war between city blocks and cops.”
-Psycho Realm
I was released on Tuesday November 18th after spending about 3 days in police custody [...]

A participant in these events wrote: “This video begins in the middle of a chaotic period between two majorly violent altercations between police and demonstrators. The video also captures the commencement of the last major violent event, the arrest of the young man who is pictured in my previous posts face down underneath three cops. [...]

The following article first appeared in the San Francisco Bay View, and was suggested by Doug. The original title is “Authorities and corporate media grossly exaggerate Oakland ‘riot’ reports.” 
We have been discussing these events  here on Kasama. The police murder of Oscar Grant is shown in video here.
“What many news reports focused on was the [...]