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The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

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Spotlight on Society: Police the police

Spotlight on Society: Police the police

Emma Shapiro March 4, 2021
Television needs to depict the tragedies that have occurred in the unlawful killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and other unarmed Black people, instead of making us root for our favorite actors.
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Canceled: Concepts of terrorism

Bini Ollivier-Yamin January 24, 2021
It’s important the crowd of mangy white supremacists who broke into the Capitol a few weeks ago are labeled as terrorists. But do the same for the cops letting them into the building and posing for selfies, the cops participating in the insurrection and the cops who engage in acts of terrrorism on the daily.
Students at BU share their thoughts on the demonstrations in support of Chinese New York Police Department officer Peter Liang, who shot and killed an unarmed civilian earlier this year. ILLUSTRATION BY ADRIANA DIAZ/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BU students express mixed reaction in the wake of former NYPD officer’s conviction

Joseph Martorana February 26, 2016

A protest was held in the Boston Common Saturday in reaction to the Feb. 11 conviction of Peter Liang, a former New York Police Department Officer who was charged with second-degree manslaughter. Several...

EDIT: Indicting the Impossible

EDIT: Indicting the Impossible

Editors December 5, 2014

On Wednesday, a grand jury in New York decided not to indict New York City Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the July 17 chokehold death of Eric Garner, a 43-year-old black man. Garner had been selling...

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