DNA dragnet focuses anew attention to U.Va. race relations

Greg Thrasher was offended and upset last month when he read that Charlottesville police officers were collecting random DNA samples from black men in the search for a serial rapist. The Detroit think tank director has two children who were recently accepted to the University of Virginia. Suddenly, he wasn'tsure if he even wanted them to visit the school. [more]

SF: City Hall sit-down over killing by cop

Mayor tries to soothe black community leaders
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, facing one of the biggest  challenges in his 5-month-old administration, met behind closed doors at City Hall for two hours Friday with African American leaders, trying to soothe  their angry reaction to this week's fatal police shooting of a 29-year-old  black suspect. [more]

Conflicting accounts in killing by S.F. cops

 COMMUNITY REACTS. Some African Americans see payback:
"I'm not against the police, but ever since that other officer died, they've been jumping out on everybody. Disrespecting everybody. Jumping everybody.The police are supposed to protect. But what they did here, that's off the hook." [more]

SAN FRANCISCO Police shoot, kill a disabled Black man. Repeatedly Opened Fire

HERE WE GO AGAIN:
San Francisco police shot and killed a 29-year-old disabled man who they say repeatedly fired on officers in a gun battle that witnesses said ended violently as the man attempted to surrender.  The man  -- identified by family members as Cammerin Boyd, 29, of Oakland --  was shot in a Western Addition parking lot at Eddy and Buchanan streets,where a crowd of angry people began shouting at police. While witnesses claimed police fired for no reason,authorities said the man had repeatedly opened fire on officers during a car chase just before the shooting. Police said they found a weapon near Boyd. [more]

Racist Police Tactics MUST END- DNA tests of blacks in investigation questioned

In a practice decried as racist, Virginia police have stopped nearly 200 black men to ask them for cheek-swab tissue samples. [more]

Blacks OUTRAGED over Police Techniques in VA.

Under the Fourth Amendment, every citizen is afforded the right to privacy,which extends right down to his or her genetic makeup. [more]

Portland: City has lost confidence in police

In Portland, after an UNARMED Black Man was Murdered by a White Cop; city has lost confidence in police. [more]

Seven Black men have been killed by Louisville police in the past Four years-

City leaders to call for boycott
The latest  being 19-year-old Michael Newby who was shot in the back as he fled an alleged crime scene in January. Muffled under the revelry and ruckus of  theKentucky Derby last weekend, were the anguished cries of Louisville's Black citizens who say the police are cutting downBlack men and nobody seems to care. [more]

DC police think they're above the law.' Gentrification leading to Negro Removal

There are fears in the community that the city wants the Cordozo residents out at any cost and by any means necessary... including police brutality, illegal property seizure and intimidation. [more]