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Police confront demonstrators as Black Lives Matter supporters demonstrate | Protesters hold their fists in the air during the protest against racism following the Black Lives Matter movement (John Rudoff/Anadolu Agency/Ying Tang/NurPhoto/Getty Images)

TX officers indicted for BLM protests

Reese Oxner, Joshua Fechter - The Texas Tribune
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When your son is shot by police

Priti Gulati Cox - Independent Media Institute
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Tenn. sheriff values cars over lives

Nicole Karlis

Solutions for poor policing

D. Watkins
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Taylor Link
Police officers stand along the procession route during the funeral of New York Police Department Officer Wenjian Liu, Sunday, Jan. 4, 2015, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Liu and his partner, officer Rafael Ramos, were killed Dec. 20 as they sat in their patrol car on a Brooklyn street. The shooter, Ismaaiyl Brinsley, later killed himself. (AP/John Minchillo)

NYPD often uses banned move

Joanna Rothkopf
Rand Paul, Hillary Clinton (AP/Reed Saxon/Cliff Owen/Photo montage by Salon)

Paul's "selling point" is dead

Joan Walsh
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Joanna Rothkopf
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In this Feb. 11, 2014 image from video released by the City of Ferguson, Mo., officer Darren Wilson attends a city council meeting in Ferguson. (AP/City of Ferguson)

Prachi Gupta
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Natasha Lennard
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