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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.
EDITORIAL: Glamour's heroes come in many forms

EDITORIAL: Glamour’s heroes come in many forms

Editors November 17, 2015

Glamour magazine posthumously honored New York Police Department Officer Moira Smith in 2001 as “Woman of the Year” after she died saving others in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks at the World Trade...

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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