Police Brutality

Democrats Sent Police to Attack a Jewish-Led Protest for Palestine
Harrowing videos have emerged of Washington, DC cops brutalizing a peaceful, Jewish-led protest outside of the DNC headquarters. This speaks volumes about what the Democrats mean when they claim to oppose “antisemitism.”
Samuel Karlin
November 16, 2023Justice for Elijah McClain, and for the 11,000 Victims of Racist State Terror in Palestine
A second officer responsible for Elijah McClain’s murder has been acquitted. Let the fight for justice for McClain carry us in the streets to fight for the over 11,000 Palestinians also murdered by racist state terror.
Carmin Maffea
November 15, 2023Drop the Charges, Defend the Movement, #StopCopCity
The Left must take up a mass campaign to defend activists facing state repression that threatens the democratic and civil rights of protesters everywhere.
Brian H. Silverstein
September 12, 2023Argentinian Journalist and Activist Facundo Molares Murdered by Buenos Aires Police
Yesterday, Facundo Molares, a political activist and journalist was suffocated to death by Buenos Aires police, echoing the police murder of George Floyd in 2020. Today, social and political organizations across Argentina are mobilizing in response and calling for justice for Facundo Molares.
La Izquierda Diario Argentina
August 11, 2023New Study Finds Police Drug Seizures Increase the Risk of Overdose
Law enforcement agencies have long been engaged in the seizure of illicit drugs as part of the racist War on Drugs being waged for years. Now a recent study has shed light on a troubling connection between these police seizures and an increase in overdoses within the surrounding communities. The CDC funded study only further underscores how the institution of policing is dangerous to public health and needs to be abolished.
Mike Pappas
August 5, 2023Protests Burn Thousands of Cars Demanding Justice for Nahel
Last Tuesday, French police murdered 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk in broad daylight during a traffic stop. Initiating another phase of class struggle in France, people across the country are taking up radical methods to demand justice.
Emma Lee
July 3, 2023Mississippi Investigating If Cop Shooting 11-year-old Crime Victim Was OK
On May 20 in Indianola, Mississippi, a cop shot Aderrien Murry, an 11-year-old Black boy who had called 911 for his mother when she felt in danger of domestic violence. The state is shielding this crime.
Daniel Werst
June 27, 2023Free Natalia Morales, Luciano Godoy, and All Political Prisoners in Jujuy, Argentina!
Natalia Morales, an elected deputy of the PTS and FIT-U and Luciano Godoy, a journalist for Left Voice’s sister network La Izquierda Diario are among the dozens of protesters who have been arrested in the midst of fierce repression in Jujuy, Argentina, where a massive struggle for the right to protest and for teachers’ wages has exploded in the impoverished region. We call on activists, workers, and organizations of the U.S. Left to denounce the repression and send solidarity with the struggle of workers and the oppressed in Jujuy.
Left Voice
June 17, 2023A Neurodivergent Case for Abolitionism
An autistic member of Denver Communists explains why neurodivergent liberation is bound up with the fight to abolish the police and build a socialist system.
Robin Forrester
June 6, 2023Campus Cops Intimidate Grad Workers in Ann Arbor, Michigan
We publish here a statement by the Graduate Employees' Organization detailing and condemning the repressive tactics of the University of Michigan administration in response to the strength and resilience of striking grad workers.
Left Voice
June 1, 2023