Police Killings

Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Renee Good, Keith Porter and the Normalization of Police Violence
14 Jan 2026
Law enforcement in the United States are responsible for more than 1,100 deaths in a typical year. This level of bloodshed goes unnoted even when police killings are deemed newsworthy and attract…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Mamdani Reappoints NYPD Commissioner Who Refused to Punish Killer Cops
28 Nov 2025
Samy Feliz is an organizer with Justice Committee, a grassroots organization dedicated to building a movement against police violence and systemic racism in New York City and empowering low-income…
Jon Jeter
As the State’s Complexion Darkens, Minnesota’s Liberalism Wanes
18 Jun 2025
Minnesota’s progressive myth shatters as its racial gaps in income, education, and housing eclipse even Deep South states, and right wing whites turn to violence against their own people.
Jon Jeter
A Grisly Kansas City Killing Shines a Light on Settler Colonialism’s ‘Boomerang Effect’
27 Nov 2024
The settler colony known as the United States inflicts violence upon Black people as a function of its existence. But the murder of a mother and her infant daughter by Missouri police officers…
Bronx Anti-War Coalition
Fare Evasion or Fatal Excuse? Statement on NYPD Mass Subway Shooting Over $2.90
18 Sep 2024
Derell Mickles' death was a devastating addition to the many lives lost in the war on Black and working-class people. With the increasing cost of transportation and the expansion of the police…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
How to Protest for Sonya Massey
31 Jul 2024
Sonya Massey’s brutal murder at the hands of the police has resulted in anguish and anger but no difference in how state violence is protested. Instead, we see surrender to the crumbs of condolences…
Pan-African Community Action PACA 2568)
Pan-African Community Action Condemns the U.S. Settler State for the Murder of Sonya Massey
31 Jul 2024
The murder of Sonya Massey by the Illinois police is a symptom of a larger, deeply rooted, systemic assault on Black and Brown working-class communities. The only way to protect the people and resist…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Police Killings Continue in Chicago
03 May 2024
Frank Chapman joins us from Chicago to discuss the recent police killing of Dexter Reed.
Abayomi Azikiwe
Police Brutality, Racism and Poverty Underlines Youth Rebellion in France
05 Jul 2023
Protests erupted in France after police killed a teenager of Algerian and Moroccan ancestry. Just as in the U.S. racism in France is the cause of police violence.
Alice Speri
Memphis Police Chief Trained with Israel Security Forces
08 Feb 2023
The chief of the Memphis, Tennessee police department took part in trainings in Israel. These exchanges with an apartheid state are a training ground for brutality.