“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...
“Collecting rent during a pandemic is extortion,” said a protester. “Eviction during a pandemic is genocide. Knock it off!“ Police arrested two people at the Garrahy...
The Aspen Institute estimates that 44,000-62,000 Rhode Island households, meaning 100,000-142,000 individual Rhode Islanders, “could be at risk of eviction in the next several months.” That’s...
Gordon has now been charged with a hate crime as the Rhode Island Attorney General takes over the prosecution of the case. Black Lives Matter Rhode...
