updated Sat. March 9, 2024
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ABC15 Arizona
February 17, 2018
MESA, AZ - A Valley family is alleging police brutality after they say their grandmother was assaulted and left bloodied and bruised after an incident with Mesa police officers. "I've talked to police out in front of my house for 30 years but there was never anybody who has behaved like this," said Virginia, theÃâà...
Arizona Daily Sun
December 14, 2017
“Now that we need people, everybody hates us,” Phoenix Officer Lisa Fisher said at a recent recruiting event. “And nobody wants to do a job where you're, you know, going to be spit at and kicked and hit and potentially stalked at your house and things like that. But that's all the more reason we need goodÃâà...
Cronkite News
December 7, 2017
PHOENIX – As thousands of protesters hit the Phoenix streets in July 2016 to protest the killings of black people by police, the Rev. ... Arizona residents have pushed back against what they view as a history of discriminatory laws, police brutality and police overreach in a variety of ways – from shutting downÃâà...
Patch.com
September 26, 2017
PHOENIX, AZ — The wave of protests that traveled from NFL game to NFL game — from London to East Rutherford, New Jersey, to Minneapolis and beyond — made ... The protests — which started last year with then-49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick — are directed toward the issue of police brutality.
PRI
August 31, 2017
Pro-Trump supporters face off with anti-Trump protesters outside a Donald Trump campaign rally in Phoenix, Arizona on Aug. ... At a city council meeting in Phoenix Wednesday night, more than 200 people spent five hours describing what they called “police brutality” during a rally for President DonaldÃâà...
AZFamily
August 30, 2017
Daireus Stokes said he was beaten by police when he asked for a vehicle and badge number in downtown Phoenix. (Source: 3TV/CBS 5/Maricopa County Sheriff's Office)Ãâà...
Arizona Daily Sun
August 23, 2017
On social media Wednesday, some members of the public expressed concerns that these innocent bystanders had become victims of police brutality. ... Edward Maguire, a professor at Arizona State University's School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, took four Ph.D students with him to the protests toÃâà...
Phoenix New Times
July 7, 2017
So far, Arizona hasn't seen the large-scale raids that people initially feared under the Trump administration. Instead, there's been a slow trickle of people getting booked into jail for minor offenses, turned over to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, and then deported. Jaywalking is considered a trafficÃâà...
KTAR.com
July 5, 2017
PHOENIX — A Valley civil rights activist said Wednesday he hopes a police brutality protest he was planning would bring Mesa to a standstill. “We are embarking on what I believe is an ambitious plan to cause gridlock and shut down major arterial streets in the city,” the Rev. Jarrett Maupin said during aÃâà...
AZFamily
July 5, 2017
"This is a textbook case of police brutality,” Maupin said in a news release ahead of the news conference. “The excessive forces officers used for this alleged jaywalking offense is shocking and disgusting." “We will be protesting to demand that these officers be immediately fired,” he said. “Their actions fly inÃâà...
