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Police toe thin blue line, noted a headline in the initial installment of the newspaper series entitled Tarnished Badges. DILEMMA OF DUTY, another headline said, identifying the issue in the 1995 package of stories about law enforcement use of force published in a trio of editions of The Canton Repository. What is necessary? And what is excessive? Increasing reports of brutality make an officer s job harder and the public fearful.
The words narrowed the focus of a front-page discussion of the duty of law enforcement and a need for respecting civil rights rights, issues that still are currently dominating newspapers and electronic media throughout the nation. The stories in the series highlighted both the priorities of police and the problems surrounding the training that policemen receive so they can do their jobs.
Letters to the Editor: Ban on menthol cigarettes is the right move
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The Biden administration is promising to ban menthol cigarettes.Gabrielle Lurie / The Chronicle 2017
Regarding “U.S. vows again to ban menthol flavor in cigarettes, cigars” (Nation, April 29): The San Francisco Marin Medical Society applauds the Biden administration and Food and Drug Administration’s move to ban menthol cigarettes within the coming year.
This pro-health/anti-tobacco policy has been a long time coming, as it’s obvious that such flavorings are a primary factor in Big Tobacco’s marketing to youth and specifically to Black Americans.
by Don Thompson, The Associated Press
Posted May 3, 2021 5:05 pm ADT
Last Updated May 3, 2021 at 5:09 pm ADT
In this image taken from Alameda Police Department body camera video, Alameda Police Department officers attempt to take 26-year-old Mario Gonzalez into custody, April 19, 2021, in Alameda, Calif. The video goes on to show officers pinning Gonzalez to the ground during the arrest that ended in his death. (Alameda Police Department via AP)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. It’s common practice for police around the U.S. to place combative suspects face down and press down on their backs with hands, elbows or knees to gain control.
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W. Kamau Bell on why it was so hard to film the Bay Area episode of CNN s United Shades of America
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W. Kamau Bell is the host of CNN s United Shades of America, which filmed an episode in the Bay Area to explore what defunding the police really means.CNN
People often ask me if I grew up here. Sometimes they outright assume that I did. The “city” that they “know” that I’m a “native” of changes. Could be San Francisco, Oakland or Berkeley. And even though I was born in Stanford Hospital and lived as a baby in East Palo Alto, I grew up back east. I lived in Chicago, Boston, Alabama and Indianapolis, like one does.