Organizing Tools & Strategies Organizing strategies Share your story as a woman of color and trans person of color who has experienced violence from law enforcement. Please contact us for more information. Build coalitions between anti-police...
Khaki and Blue: A Killer Combination U. S. police brutality abroad An Iraqi woman in her 70s had been harnessed and ridden like a donkey by U.S. soldiers at Abu Ghraib after being arrested without charge in July 2003. Law enforcement violence is not limited to...
Immigration Policing & Border Violence On September 3, 1993, Juanita Gomez and her female cousin crossed the border between Nogales, Sonora, and Nogales, Arizona to meet two male friends to go shopping. Larry Selders, a Border Patrol Agent, stopped all four...
Disaster & Law Enforcement Violence The day after Hurricane Katrina struck, 73-year old Merlene Maten, an African American grandmother and church elder who had evacuated to a hotel in the New Orleans suburb of Kenner, Louisiana following the flooding of her home...
Quality of Life Policing Margaret Mitchell, a homeless 54-year-old Black woman, was pulling a shopping cart along the street in Los Angeles when two officers on bicycles approached and began harassing her. Under a California law, police can ticket people and...
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