In discussion with this reporter, Tyler denounced the arrest and threatened deportation of Khalil, a legal US resident detained by the Trump administration for opposing the Gaza genocide, and called for action to defend freedom of speech.
Khalil’s powerful statement came the same day Trump threatened to impeach a federal judge for seeking to block the kidnapping and deportation of Venezuelan and El Salvadoran immigrants.
Gary Tyler’s lifelong struggle for justice, both personally and socially, animates his artistic work as a quilt maker. His profoundly moving art is finding a growing audience and worldwide acclaim.
Maria Pike and her daughter Destinii Hope were killed last year after police officers responded to a domestic violence call.
While this protest highlights the genuine sentiment of workers fighting for better conditions, it also exposes the limitations of protest tactics that focus on pressuring executives rather than confronting the profit system.
The fact that the charges are only being filed now, nearly a year after the protest took place, underscores their concocted character.
Empowered by the Trump administration and with the complicity of the Democratic Party, US immigration police are detaining and deporting legal tourists, multi-decade residents and visa holders in violation of court orders.
On Friday, Trump’s deputy attorney general, Todd Blanche, threatened to pursue terrorism charges against universities and students for previously protesting war crimes and ethnic cleansing.
Glenn Youngkin, Republican governor of Virginia, commuted the sentence of a former police officer who fatally shot an unarmed man accused of stealing a pair of sunglasses in 2023.
Nearly 42,000 people are in ICE custody, a majority of them with no criminal history, and many of them facing similar conditions to those endured by Jessica Brösche.
The main demand of the strikers was to allow them a free hand in terrorizing inmates.
Neither Ford nor the UAW President Shawn Fain have any official statements on the police raids or details about the highly secretive operations of Ford’s Global Security Task Force, which is directing them.
Corrections officers object to even limited constraints on their ability to impose a regime of terror on inmates.
A Kentucky juvenile justice guard broke the arms of two teens at McCracken Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Paducah, Kentucky. The attacks occurred in separate restraint incidents on the same day.
The deaths of two individuals in a week at the hands of the Knox County Sheriff's highlight systemic issues of police brutality in the United States.
Trump is seeking to roll back any concessions that were made to popular opposition as part of a generalized effort to establish a presidential dictatorship resting on the support of police state agencies and fascist militias.
The years of cover-ups and denials by the German judiciary in this and other cases represents a serious warning. Justice will not come from these forces.
Instructors, including active-duty police, encourage a “warrior” mentality that dehumanizes civilians and glorifies violence and insubordination.
Donald Trump and his fascist transition team are using the violent events in New Orleans and Las Vegas during the New Year holiday to build up the forces of repression against immigrants and political opposition to his fascist agenda by the working class.
For over 10 years, Mapping Police Violence, a non-profit research group, has documented a steady increase in police killings in the United States, including over 1,250 in 2024.
