Sabba – Does sound familiar doesn’t it? This should be read with the article below, The Globalization of Palestine.
SPUTNIK NEWS – A study revealed that cases involving one in every six deaths at the hands of police officers during the first three months of 2015 were declared ‘justified,’ and the officers who did the killing were quietly returned to work without announcement by authorities or reports from local media.
A project initiated by The Guardian has been counting cases involving killings of civilians by US law enforcement agencies beginning in 2015, as the federal government doesn’t keep track of incidents of police killings or the outcome of investigations.
An analysis of data obtained for the project revealed that of 289 people killed in the first quarter of 2015, 202 cases were ruled justified or accidental, including those in which circumstances or an officer’s actions were brought into question.
In many cases no public statement followed, and researchers found no mentions in local or national media. CONTINUE READING