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"Hands up!" sign at a protest in Ferguson, Missouri in August 2014 Group of people in Shaw, St. Louis with their hands raised in October 2014 "Hands up, don't shoot", sometimes shortened to "hands up", is a slogan and gesture that originated after the August 9, 2014, police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and then adopted at protests against police brutality elsewhere in the ...
Copwatch logo. Copwatch (also Cop Watch or Cop-Watch) is a network of typically autonomous activist organizations, focused in local areas in the United States, Canada, and Europe, that observe and document police activity looking for signs of police misconduct and brutality.
The International Day Against Police Brutality occurs on March 15. It first began in 1997 as an initiative of the Montreal-based Collective Opposed to Police Brutality and the Black Flag group in Switzerland. A march is held yearly in Montreal. Acceptance of March 15 as a focal day of solidarity against police brutality varies from one place to ...
Oct. 22 is also known as "National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and Criminalization of an Entire Generation." The event, which is overseen by the October 22 Coalition, is ...
Critics warn one undermines the ability to document police brutality. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed bills he says will support law enforcement. Critics warn one undermines the ability to ...
French lawmakers plan to rewrite a controversial draft law that could restrict the sharing of images of police brutality — a response to public uproar and new video of police beating a Black man ...
SB 184 does not prevent taking video or pictures of law enforcement in the course of their duties, but it does require you, if asked, to move 25 feet away, which can make shooting images or video ...
The Stolen Lives Project is a watchdog group for deaths from police brutality in the United States. The group collects data on people who have died from the police and Border Patrol. Current supporters of the group include the National Lawyers Guild, the Anthony Baez Foundation, and the Center for Constitutional Rights. [1] [2]