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Bad People? (Poem)

When we peacefully kneel and protest against police brutality, we’re called bad people

When we riot against racial oppression and police brutality , they call us bad people

When Nazis go to Charlottesville to terrorize and kill people, President Trump calls them very fine people.

-Leon Kwasi Kuntuo-Asare

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Rampant Racism Throughout SFPD

Rampant Racism Throughout SFPD

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San Francisco Employee Calls out Department’s Racism

By: Leon Kwasi Kuntuo-Asare

A San Francisco city employee, who was teaching anti-bias classes for two-years, recently came forward with frustration with the rampant anti-black racism that is widespread in the department.The now ex-Department of Human Resources manager said to his superiors in a farewell email:

The degree of anti-black sentiment throughout SFPD is extreme.

Dante King wrote in the email to DHR Director Micki Callahan, (San Francisco) Examiner obtained the email through a public records request past week.

King later said:

While there are some SFPD who possess somewhat of a balanced view of racism and anti-blackness, there are an equal number (if not more)-who possess and exude deeply anti-black sentiment.

The U.S. Department of Justice reviewed the SFPD in October of 2016, and discovered the department had:

numerous indicators of implicit and institutionalized bias against minority groups.

As of this writing the SFPD has only completed 16% of the 272 recommendations for reform that were issued by the U.S. Department of Justice.

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COLORADO POLICE OFFICER RESIGNS BEFORE HIS ADMINISTRATIVE HEARING FOR AN INCIDENT HE HAD WITH A BLACK COLLEGE STUDENT

By: Leon Kwasi Kuntuo-Asare

Boulder, Colorado police officer, John Smyly resigned this past Wednesday, before his scheduled administrative hearing.

The hearing was about a confrontation that the police officer had with an African-American Naropa University student, Zayd Atkinson in March.

An internal investigation revealed that the officer Smyly in his treatment of Atkinson, had violated conduct, police authority and public trust.

In the resignation agreement he will reportedly stay on with the department until 2020, and will receive $69,000.

According to the AtlantaBlackStar:

Atkinson’s lawyer, Siddhartha Rathod, was less-than-pleased with the agreement and said the city was using taxpayer dollars to reward Smyly for his misconduct.

Rathod later said: “Boulder is paying this officer nearly $80,000 in taxpayer money, giving him a year’s paid vacation for what he did”.

For additional information use link below:

https://atlantablackstar.com/2019/05/17/colorado-cop-who-detained-black-college-student-picking-up-trash-resigns/

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