3. Die universitäre Lehre beruht auf einem kritischen, kooperativen und vertrauensvollen Austausch zwischen mündigen Menschen. Dafür, so sind sich Soziologie, Erziehungs-, Kognitions- und Geisteswissenschaften völlig einig, ist das Gespräch zwischen Anwesenden noch immer die beste Grundlage. Auch dies lässt sich nicht verlustfrei in virtuelle Formate übertragen.
Daily Archives: 8. Juni 2020
Grüne wollen Begriff „Rassismus“ streichen
„Es ist Zeit, dass wir Rassismus verlernen. Allesamt“, sagen Robert Habeck (großer Bundesvorsitzender) und Aminata Touré (Vizepräsidentin des Landtags Schleswig-Holstein).
Remembering George Floyd: Public viewing before Houston funeral
This is live coverage of the public viewing for George Floyd in Houston. The viewing will take place from noon to 6pm today. Tomorrow, there will be a funeral for George Floyd.
Four years in a row, police nationwide fatally shoot nearly 1,000 people
Wexler said New York City shows how training can reduce fatal police shootings.
In 1971, the city had 314 officer-involved shootings, 93 of which were fatal, he noted.
The next year the city passed a law prohibiting officers from shooting into vehicles, a practice still permitted by many police departments.
Within two years the city reduced police shootings to 121, with 41 fatal. By 2015, after a period when crime dropped enormously, the number had fallen to 23 people shot by police with eight killed. No New York City police officers have been seriously hurt by someone in a car in the 46 years since the ban in shooting into vehicles took effect, he said.
Man Fatally Shot, Pregnant Woman Injured in Oakland CHP Officer-Involved Shooting
According to the Oakland Police Department, the California Highway Patrol was conducting a criminal investigation in the neighborhood.
Déjà vu
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Here‘s an interview of the man who was shot. Video by @agarlandphoto
Here‘s is more complete footage of what happened in Seattle, with the car speeding in, an apparent shooting, and the man getting out with a gun.
Man drives car into crowd, shoots one person at Sunday protest on Capitol Hill
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT – A man drove a car into a group of protesters on Capitol Hill Sunday night, got out and brandished a gun. One person was shot and is in stable condition. The man with the gun has been detained by SPD. (The Seattle Times)
A man just drove through a crowd of demonstrators in Seattle and then appeared to shoot someone. Authorities say the man is in custody, one person shot is in the hospital in stable condition. Here‘s a capture from a FB livestream, via twitch
Boogaloo arrests reveal new extremist agenda to hijack protests
(06.06.2020)
Undercover FBI agents learned the Las Vegas defendants were planning to firebomb a Nevada Energy substation on May 28 to create unrest in Las Vegas, according to the federal complaint.
Far-Right Extremists in Las Vegas Charged with Plotting Terror Attacks
(05.06.2020)
In related news, federal prosecutors in Las Vegas have charged three men connected to the far-right extremist Boogaloo movement with inciting violence during the recent protests and conspiracy to commit terrorism. The three men all had experience in the U.S. military.
Federal Protective Service officer killed, another injured in Oakland shooting amid George Floyd protests
(30.05.2020)
A Federal Protective Service (FPS) Officer was killed and another injured Friday in a shooting at a federal building in Oakland, Calif., amid protests and violence in the city over the death of Minneapolis man George Floyd.
„We have witnessed an outright assault on our law enforcement community last night in Oakland, California,“ Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf said at a Saturday news conference. „An assassin cowardly shot two Federal Protective Service contractors as they stood watch over a protest.“
Man suspected of killing Sheriff’s deputy on active duty in Air Force
Police have not ruled out the possibility that others were involved.
32-year-old military police officer arrested on suspicion of killing Santa Cruz, California deputy
The ABC7 I-Team has new information about the suspect in the death of Santa Cruz County Sheriff‘s Sgt. Damon Gutzwiller. Here‘s what we know about 32-year-old Steven Carrillo and why the FBI is investigating a possible link between the Santa Cruz and Oakland shootings.
Most of Minneapolis City Council pledges to ‚begin the process of ending‘ police department
“We recognize that we don’t have all the answers about what a police-free future looks like, but our community does,” they said, reading off a prepared statement. “We’re committed to engaging with every willing community member in the City of Minneapolis over the next year to identify what safety looks like for you.”
Their words — delivered one day after Mayor Jacob Frey told a crowd of protesters he does not support the full abolishment of the MPD — set off what is likely to be a long, complicated debate about the future of the state’s largest police force.
Neue Details über Einsatz von US-Elitetruppe in Kolumbien
Verteidigungsminister Carlos Holmes Trujillo war am Mittwoch vom Senat zu einer Befragung geladen. Mehrere Parlamentarier äußerten scharfe Kritik und betonten, dass der US-Militäreinsatz ihrer Genehmigung bedürfe. Sie forderten zudem Aufklärung über Details wie Truppenstärke, Zeitraum und konkrete Operationen.
Indigenous Ecuadorean Organization Wins UN 2020 Equator Prize
The organization has been accompanying significant legal victories against extractivist companies and for the survival of original nations in Ecuador, including the triumph last year of the Waorani in a historical trial against oil firms.
“Amazon means life for our world. For us, as Indigenous peoples, it is our home,” the organization said.
In violent Rio, U.S. protests stoke backlash against deadly cops
“It’s sad in a way that part of Brazilian society has to look at the U.S. to realize that the problem exists at home,” said Cano, a professor at Rio de Janeiro State University.
“And the media is giving a lot more coverage now after the George Floyd case than they would otherwise give to the recurrent cases of executions in favelas.”
Ending police brutality at home means challenging US foreign policy
The program facilitates the transfer of excess military weaponry and equipment to civilian law enforcement agencies.
George Floyd protests have created a multicultural movement that’s making history
In this way, Floyd’s killing has created a wide, multicultural activist movement unprecedented in scope when compared with other notorious cases of police abuse. The 1991 videotaped beating of black motorist Rodney King by Los Angeles Police Department officers provoked an international outcry, but it did not spark anything close to this movement.
De Blasio Vows for First Time to Cut Funding for the N.Y.P.D.
The mayor on Sunday declined to say precisely how much funding he planned to divert to social services from the New York Police Department, which has an annual budget of $6 billion, representing more than 6 percent of Mr. de Blasio’s proposed $90 billion budget.
New York Times editorial page editor resigns amid backlash over senator’s op-ed advocating use of federal troops to quell protests
Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger said in a statement that he was grateful for changes Bennet had made to the paper’s opinion pages, including broadening the range of voices.
More cities are lifting curfews as Black Lives Matter protests continue for the 13th day
As the protests enter day 13, some cities have begun rolling out new rules for officers or plans of reform, prompted by both the demonstrations and the violent police response they‘ve been met with, including tear gas and rubber bullets.
How Bernie Sanders Came to Address an Anti-annexation Rally in Tel Aviv
Odeh and Sanders first met in February 2017, when the Odeh visited Washington to attend that year’s J Street conference.
Israeli Left’s Show of Strength Highlights Weakness of Anti-annexation Protest
One can argue about whether the disparate 100-year history of confrontation and occupation between Israelis and Palestinians totally negates parallels to white America’s 400 years of African American subjugation and discrimination. But one glaring gap is undeniable: The majority of U.S. public opinion now acknowledges the legitimacy of black grievances, while the majority of Israelis ‒ including most of the Jewish center-left ‒ continues to view Palestinians, at least those beyond the former Green Line, as a mortal enemy bent on their country’s destruction