Amazon Bans Police From Using Its Facial Recognition Technology For A Year

open letter spearheaded by the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBTQ rights organizations, they demand long-term, structural changes to policing, including the divestment of police resources and reinvestment of funds in communities.It comes in the wake of nationwide protests over police brutality and systemic racism against Black Americans, sparked by the death of George Floyd, who was killed last month after a white Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for almost nine

IBM is getting out of the facial recognition business, saying it's concerned about how the technology can be used for mass surveillance and racial profiling. Ongoing protests responding to the death of George Floyd have sparked a broader reckoning over racial injustice and a closer look at the use of police technology to track demonstrators and monitor American neighborhoods.

George Floyd.The footage shows Millard Scott tumbling downstairs after an officer is heard to warn: "Police officer with a Taser. Stay where you are."As officers ask if he is OK and tell him to keep still, a distressed woman can be heard saying: "They've Tasered him."Speaking to ITV News, Mr Scott said he believed he would not have been Tasered if he were white."I'm lucky to be alive," he said."The only people who have invaded our space are the Metropolitan Police.

Just as activists have raised their voices demanding justice for George Floyd and the many killed by police violence, the police have met them with their own sound: the LRAD. These audio devices, colloquially known as “sound cannons,” can be used either as conventional public address speaker systems or to generate extremely loud high-frequency sounds specifically intended for the dispersal of crowds, which can also cause pain, disorientation, and injury to those exposed to them.

he nephew of Harvey Milk on Thursday expressed his support for those who are protesting against police brutality in the wake of George Floyd’s death.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterAt the top of Last Week Tonight, John Oliver addressed the George Floyd protests and Donald Trump’s bible photo opp and the excessive force police officers use — specifically against the Black community. That said, he spent the entire episode unpacking the problematic police system.Oliver points out that the violence we have seen is the tip of a very large iceberg.

The world was watching in real time as two police officers in Buffalo, New York shoved an elderly peaceful protestor to the ground with no provocation. The shocking incident happened on June 4, and was caught on camera by a news crew.

Two Buffalo, New York, police officers were suspended without pay on Thursday after a video showed them shoving a 75-year-old man to the ground, as protests over the police killing of George Floyd continued into their tenth night.

The NSW Government, including NSW Police and Senior Ministers, are attempting to stop the Black Lives Matter protest set to take place in Sydney this Saturday afternoon at Town Hall.

Cynthia Bailey, her fiancé, Mike Hill, their daughters, Ashleé Hill, Kayla Hill, Noelle Robinson, and Noelle’s girlfriend, Alexis, joined the thousands of people across the world who are protesting police brutality and injustice in the wake of the deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and more. The Real Housewives of Atlanta family peacefully protested together in Los Angeles on June 3, and detailed their experience later on Instagram. 

As a result of the Black Lives Matter protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd last month, streams for N.W.A.‘s 1988 hip-hop anthem “F**k tha Police” have nearly quadrupled in overall numbers.

A petition has been launched

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Lizzo took to Instagram Live once again to talk about the Black Lives Matter movement and she became pretty emotional while discussing how police have been dealing with the peaceful protests in Minneapolis. The singer cried about the fact that the authorities continue to use excessive force despite what happened to George Floyd.