Italian satirical artist aleXsandro Palombo has shared a series of hard-hitting artworks in response to the fatal shooting of black man Walter Scott by a white police officer in South Carolina.
In Oakland, the mother of Oscar Grant, a young black man whose fatal encounter with an transit police officer in 2009 inspired the recent film Fruitvale Station, spoke to a crowd gathered outside the Alameda county court house.
Cephus Johnson, the uncle of Oscar Grant, a young black man whose fatal encounter with an Oakland transit police officer was made into a film, Fruitvale Station, said he felt compelled to come.
Charlotte police release videos of fatal shooting of black man.
Earlier in the month, footage of the fatal shooting of black man Alton Sterling by white police officers provoked large protests in the city and nationwide.
A Milwaukee police officer who killed a black man in August fired the fatal shot after the man had thrown away his gun, according to court documents released on Thursday.
All five were killed by a sniper during a march to protest recent fatal shootings of black men in Minnesota and Louisiana by police.
The incident is the latest in a series of fatal shootings of black men that have roiled communities across the U.S. Schroeder writes for the San Diego Union-Tribune.
While the protests spurred by fatal shootings of black men in Minnesota and Louisiana follow some traditions of the 1950s and '60s, there are distinct differences.
U.S. police forces have been the target of protests following the fatal shootings of black men by patrolmen in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and outside St .Paul, Minnesota, that were caught on video.
In recent weeks, though, it has been possible to track the emergence of a male counterpart – call him an homme fatal – a man who deploys his masculine qualities, but not necessarily his sexual magnetism, in such a way as to undermine a woman in power, even to engineer her downfall.
