#SayHerName: Resisting Police Brutality Against Black Women
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Also, please see the DU link below for a recent, egregious example. This case appears to be police-sanctioned digital rape: unfortunately not uncommon, it seems, in Texas.
http://www.aapf.org/sayhernamereport
July 16, 2015 Sandra Bland, the 28-year old Black woman from Naperville, Illinois who was arrested for allegedly assaulting a police officer during a traffic stop in Waller County, Texas on July 10 and was found dead in a jail cell three days later, is the latest victim of police brutality against African American women, says Columbia Law School Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw, a leading authority on how law and society are shaped by race and gender.
In honor of Bland, and to continue to call attention to violence against Black women in the U.S., the African American Policy Forum, the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies at Columbia Law School, and Andrea Ritchie, Soros Justice Fellow and expert on policing of women and LGBT people of color, have updated a report first issued in May, 2015, “Say Her Name: Resisting Police Brutality Against Black Women.” The new version includes the circumstances around Bland’s suspicious death—which is being investigated by the Texas Rangers in coordination with the FBI—and documents stories of Black women who have been killed by police, shining a spotlight on forms of police brutality often experienced disproportionately by women of color.
Say Her Name is intended to serve as a resource for the media, organizers, researchers, policy makers, and other stakeholders to better understand and address Black women’s experiences of profiling and policing.
“Although Black women are routinely killed, raped, and beaten by the police, their experiences are rarely foregrounded in popular understandings of police brutality,” said Crenshaw, director of Columbia Law School’s Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies and co-author of the report. “Yet, inclusion of Black women’s experiences in social movements, media narratives, and policy demands around policing and police brutality is critical to effectively combatting racialized state violence for Black communities and other communities of color.”
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027085170
http://www.ebony.com/news-views/was-a-black-woman-sexually-assaulted-by-texas-cops-over-weed-503#ixzz3ioMJtqfj
Even if Corley was high and in possession of marijuana at the time of her stop, that multiple officers of the law saw fit to perform a search of her vagina is beyond unconscionable (and, according to her lawyer and a representative of the ACLU, likely unconstitutional.) In Texas, possession of 2 ounces of marijuana or less is a misdemeanor carrying a maximum fine of $2,000 and 180 days in jail; possession of over 4 ounces is a felony. You can’t fit 2 ounces of weed in your pocket. Even in the unlikelihood that Corley had her vaginal cavity stuffed to the maximum capacity, these sheriffs would accomplish very little by recovering it.
Once again, it seems that a Black female body has been violated by Texas law enforcement for no reason. There was the violent detainment of a 14-year-old girl at that infamous McKinney pool party in early June and the needless arrest of Sandra Bland in mid-July that ended in the woman’s mysterious death days later. Across the country, no less than 5 Black women were found dead in jail cells last month. That we are finding out this story almost two months after the incident took place (shout out to Jezebel for bringing it to a national audience), raises more questions.
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