Victim or Villain? Racial/Ethnic Differences in News Portrayals of Individuals with Mental Illness Killed by PoliceWORKING PAPER As a social problem, little is known about how individuals are portrayed in the news when race/ethnicity and mental illness intersect. This is important because of the ...
For example, the studies reviewed reveal that the greater the implicit bias against Blacks in a region (using average IAT scores of a region) the greater is the lethal use of force by police, the greater the Black American deaths from circulatory diseases, the lower is spending on Medicaid d...
and at least three people were killed (a policeman, a BNP activist and journalist Rafiq Bhuiyan). As of the morning of October 31, at least 11 people had died, and hundreds had been injured in connection with the protests in different cities. While there are also reports...
Parliament decided on Thursday to open 6 million secret police files to individuals victimized by Communist East Germany’s ruthless network of informers, giving those persecuted by the Stasi an emotionally explosive opportunity to find out who betrayed them. It also will offer those accused of Stasi...
This is a common refrain. The police similarly slapped cases on the women ofKalathur, a village on the Palar, when they protested last year against sand mining. When this reporter met V Chandrasekhar, who has been agitating against sand mining in Villupuram and Pondicherry, it was shortly aft...
The IDF, Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency), and Israel Border Police arrested eight wanted persons in the West Bank on Monday night, the IDF announced. Security personnel arrested the wanted individuals and confiscated incendiary materials in Binyamin. One of those taken into custody was arrested...
fled the police and were electrocuted at an electricity station, the boys’ deaths reminded others of their own dissatisfactions—the police harassment, the difficulty in finding work and housing; and the rioting began. Each day, there was destruction, with news that hundreds of vehicles had been...
representative from South Dakota from 1961 to 1971; first member of the Lakota tribe to serve in Congress FL SD Mississippi law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty MS Postmaster Robert Ingram Vietnam veteran; Postmaster of Thomasville, Alabama, from 1968 to 1999 AL Windermere police ...
The devices used to destroy property developed from crude petrol-and-candle inventions to more sophisticated incendiary devices and letter bombs that could easily have killed. In one of the terrorists' most frightening attacks, a bomb was placed in the bedroom of the young son of the then-Wels...
For example: the number of unarmed black men killed by police, according to the Washington Post, was between 12 and 27. Yet, nearly half of "very liberal" Americans think it’s between one thousand and ten thousand. So where did they get that perception? From the same dishonest rage mach...