Attorney Kamau Franklin in this interview with the Real News Network explains why the prosecutor’s approach in Tamir Rice’s case was flawed from the beginning and highlights the tools needed to bring a change beyond just criminal justice reform. Watch here.
After again seeing the importance of video evidence in the recent police killing of Walter Scott I was reminded that close to 18 years ago I participated in developing a community cop-watch program in Brooklyn with a grassroots organization I was a part of. At that time we helped reintroduce the tactic of cop-watches into… Continue reading How to Put Together a Community Cop-watch Program
In Part 2, 3 and 4 of the Police Violence and Militarization Town Hall discussion hosted by South Organizing Against Racism (SOAR) and the Real News, Kamau Franklin and other participants discuss whether the #Blacklivesmatter movement can pick up where the civil rights movement and black power movements left off. At the Real News (click here to… Continue reading Police Violence and Militarization Town Hall (Part 2, 3 and 4)
An editorial by Kamau Franklin was published in the Charleston Gazette and in the Atlanta Journal Constitution (although the AJC took the editorial liberty to change/dilute the title). Thanks AFSC staff in Philadelphia and Atlanta for supporting the publication. You can read the full editorial below or at the links above. The killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner represent the tip… Continue reading Targets no more — ending bad policing
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