Tag: Providence Police Department
ACLU says Providence cannot selectively enforce residential picketing ordinance, urges repeal
The City of Providence cannot pick and choose when to apply an ordinance against residential picketing says Steven Brown, executive director of the ACLU...
Ocean State Against Hate shuts down Resist Marxism rally in Providence
The rain was unrelenting. 250+ people organized under the coalition Ocean State Against Hate prevented thirty people from Resist Marxism from holding their "Providence Freedom...
Transgender advocates protest ‘transphobic lecture’ at St Pius V Church in Providence
Michelle Cretella, a member of the American College of Pediatrics (ACPed), gave a lecture Thursday evening at St Pius V Church in Providence on...
Jewish Alliance of Greater RI called on to condemn Israeli Defense Forces killings in...
On Friday afternoon nearly twenty young Jewish persons gathered outside the offices of the Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island on the East Side...
The Dancing Cop resurfaces in Pawtucket
The Pawtucket Public Library has scheduled a "Tony the Dancing Cop safety show" for children on Wednesday, April 18, from 10:30-11:30am. Tony Lepore, the...
Providence Police Union blames uptick in gun violence on Community Safety Act; advocates and...
Leaders of the Providence Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), Lodge #3, the police union, issued a long statement on social media Thursday blaming a...
Providence rescinds new gang database policy amid community concerns
The day after receiving a letter that charged the Providence Police Department with violating the newly enacted Community Safety Act (CSA) through its new...
New Providence Police gang database policy violates Community Safety Act, maintains PrYSM
The newly created Intelligence Assessment Database "blatantly and unequivocally" violates the Community Safety Act (CSA) maintains attorney Shannah Kurland in a letter to Providence...
Many questions remain unanswered in police shooting, says ACLU
Saying that many questions remain unanswered, the ACLU of Rhode Island today issued a five page commentary on the Thursday shooting of Joseph Santos...
In wake of police shooting, #JusticeForJoey marches through Providence
Around forty people gathered in front of the Providence Place Mall near CVS to protest the police shooting of Joseph Santos and Christine Demers...