“Certainly Black lives matter to everybody, so do Brown lives, so do yellow lives, so do red lives,” said Senator Crowley. “There should be no discrimination,...
“Black Lives Matter Rhode Island just wants a fair share for African Americans and people of color,” said Dantzler, noting that Pawtucket does not provide adequate...
On Tuesday evening just over 50 protesters marched through Providence, past the Providence Public Safety Complex and up and down Atwells Avenue to call for justice...
“As the state meets further resistance it will continue to deputize its vigilante counterparts to carry out deadly violence. We must rise up against this threat...
“…LEOBoR is being invoked very infrequently… The sentiment of the overwhelming majority of chiefs I had spoken to was that what was going on with discipline...
“What I saw on Dean Street on July 23 was in my view a really excessive use of force against one part of a protest, against...
“We are really pushing for a community review board – every other city’s doing it, why shouldn’t we? Pawtucket has one of the worst police departments...
“We’re here to say that racial profiling is not part of protecting or serving this community. When you have a community that gets pulled over, that...
“We cleaned up trash around the city, along Broad Street, Westminster, and Hartford Ave, canvassing onlookers to hear their ideas about how taxpayer funds should be...
“Rather than finding fault, criticizing and shaming the process or blaming teachers, perhaps the past five months state leaders should have worked to find solutions to...
