Protesters block the streets in Berkeley, Missouri on Wednesday, Dec. 24. over the death of Antonio Martin, who was shot and killed by a police officer after he allegedly pulled a gun on Tuesday,
Dec. 23.
Tia Carrie is as sweet a teenage girl as you can image.
Nothing about her — not her big smile wired with colorful braces, or her florescent pink sweatshirt and elaborately dressed hair — would make you think she is angry.
But she is “damn angry.”
It showed on Wednesday night only when the 1
Jorge “Jinho” Ferreira feels the tension between being black and carrying a badge every day as a sheriff’s deputy in Alameda County, California.
“I feel like you have to prove yourself on every level,” said Ferreira, 39, who patrols about 30 miles east of San Francisco. “You have to prove yourself to the black community, you have to prove yourself to all of your co-workers, you have to prove yourself to society.”
With the nation roiled by two grand juries’ recent decisions not to indict white
