A first responder’s day-to-day life is already stressful. When they are placed into traumatic situations that impact their mental health, the job can become unbearable.
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Video Footage of Officers Smashing a Vehicle’s Window and Dragging a Wake Forest Woman to the Ground Went Viral Last Week
The woman’s minor children were in the vehicle and witnessed the whole thing in the latest incident of Triangle law enforcement officers using excessive force against residents.
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Statement: “This Is What Happens in America”
A press statement from the ACLU of North Carolina lists the names of all of the people of color killed by law enforcement officers in 2021; 984 people were killed by police officers in the last year.
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Wake County Judge Approves Release of Body Camera Footage of Fuquay-Varina Teen’s Detention
Several parties and portions of the video will be redacted prior to the release.
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Backtalk: Back in Time
What one reader had to say about police spending.
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Raleigh, Durham Mayors Condemn Senate Bill That Would Punish Cities For Reducing Police Budget
“Those kinds of decisions need to be local decisions.”
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Carrboro Announces New Police Chief
Chief Chris Atack has worked at the Carrboro Police Department for 22 years. He’ll take over the role on February 15.
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Heavy Police Presence in Downtown Raleigh Sunday, But Armed Protesters Don’t Show
It was a quiet Sunday, save for a few hundred cops in riot gear.
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UNC Police Respond to Armed Person on Campus, Community Told to Shelter in Place
UNC notified students at 11:44 a.m. that there was an armed, dangerous person near the Ambulatory Care Center. The school has since said campus could resume normal activities.
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Who Decides Which Protesters Are Good or Bad? It Shouldn’t Be the State.
Attempting to divide a movement loses sight of the fact that the majority of protesters share the same goal: the protection of human life and the end of policing above the law.