Essay: Militarisation has fostered a policing culture that sets up protesters as ‘the enemy’
Former US police officer and now a visiting associate professor of sociology at Emmanuel College in Boston, TOM NOLAN looks, in an article first published on The Conversation, says police culture in the US appears to be stuck in an “us vs them” mentality…
Protesters march again in US cities despite curfews, Trump vow to crack down
Washington DC/Minneapolis, USReuters Thousands of demonstrators took to a knee in the grass outside the US Capitol on Tuesday, chanting “silence is violence” and “no justice, no peace”, just before a government-imposed curfew as rallies against police brutality swelled in major cities. The throng at the capitol then stood up and chanted “take a knee” […]
Sight-Seeing: My generation failed to deal with racism
US Catholic commentator THOMAS REESE, in an article first published in Religion News Service, expresses his hopes the next generation can do better in addressing the issue of racism in the US…