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2021-10-02 21:00
U.S. Police violence on the frontline with an alarming new study
TEHRAN - In what is likely to add fuel to the fire of an ongoing debate over systemic racism in the U.S., new research reveals that more than half of police killings have not been reported in official data, and African Americans are 3.5 times more likely than white Americans be the victim.
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2021-09-27 17:31
Senate attempt to reform U.S. police fails
TEHRAN - Negotiations in the U.S. Congress to reform police practices following the 2020 murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis have collapsed, Democratic Senator Cory Booker says, as President Joe Biden blamed Republicans for the failure.
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2021-04-21 17:08
U.S. protests: Black teen girl fatally shot by Ohio police
A Black teenage girl was fatally shot by police in Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday afternoon, shortly before a U.S. jury found former Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin guilty of third-degree murder in the May 2020 death of George Floyd.
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2021/04/20
By Jim W. Dean
Duante Wright, a senseless death due to family and police negligence
America saw another tragedy in the senseless death of this young black man. Two lives are now destroyed, a 20 year old young man struggling with competency and responsibility issues, and a 26 year female police veteran who when attempting to tase the resisting arrest man, drew her service revolver from her right hip when the taser was on her left hip.
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2021-04-12 22:09
U.S. Police fatally shoot Black man in Minneapolis, protests erupt
Protests erupted against police when an officer fatally shot a young Black man after stopping his vehicle for a traffic violation on Sunday about 10 miles (16 km) from where George Floyd was killed during an arrest in Minneapolis last May.
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2021-01-05 11:38
Wisconsin city braces for protest as charging decision looms
A southeastern Wisconsin city braced for another round of protests as prosecutors prepared to announce whether they'll charge a white police officer who shot a Black man in the back, leaving him paralyzed.
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2020-10-28 18:51
U.S. protests: Father of Black man killed by police urges calm after more unrest
The family of a Philadelphia Black man shot dead by police appealed on Tuesday for calm as a second night of protests over his death brought renewed violence, with clashes between police and demonstrators and some looting of stores.
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2020-07-29 16:02
Leader condemns U.S. government’s racism, backs Black Lives Matter
TEHRAN — Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says Iran condemns the racist behavior of the U.S. government toward its people and supports the American people’s anti-racism movement.
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2020-07-15 10:37
By Mohammad Homaeefar
Racism, inequality, and conflict: an interview with Prof. Robert Sapolsky
Earlier this month, I conducted an interview with Dr. Robert Sapolsky, a professor of biological sciences at Stanford University, to discuss different issues such as racism, economic inequality, and partisan polarization. He was very generous with his time and provided us with in-depth analyses of such fundamental issues.
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2020-06-07 21:03
By: Tommy Sheridan
America 2020 – Where anti-racists are terrorists & racists are president
Lying face down on the ground with his hands handcuffed behind him George posed no threat to anyone but was restrained by three Minneapolis police officers kneeling on him and one of those brutes placed his knee deliberately and sadistically onto George’s neck.
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2020-06-02 02:31
By Javad Heirannia
Trump unashamedly right-wing, says professor of comparative philosophies
TEHRAN - Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, a professor in global thought and comparative philosophies, tells the Tehran Times that “President Trump is unashamedly right-wing”.
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2020-05-31 13:15
Zarif urges world to wage war against racism
TEHRAN — Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has urged the entire world to wage a war against racism, making a reference to the recent killing of a black American by the U.S. police.
