Mothers Against Police Brutality’s Weekly Digest
11 June 2026
| Dear MAPB Friends and Supporters, Welcome to the third edition of our series highlighting developments related to policing, police violence, accountability efforts, protest repression, and community resistance. If you want to submit a news update for the bulletin, please email Alli@mapbdallas.com. |
| Wrongful Arrest Exposes Failures in One of the Oldest Police Face-Recognition Tools in the US June 10, 2026. Florida The ACLU is suing two Florida police departments over the arrest of a Fort Myers man in a child-abduction case, saying officers treated a flawed face-recognition match as a near-certain ID. Trump refuses to rule out using ‘anti-weaponization’ fund for Capitol rioters who attacked police June 7, 2026. Washington, D.C. Donald Trump declined on Sunday to definitively rule out compensating individuals who were charged with assaulting police officers when his supporters attacked the US Capitol on 6 January 2021 toward the end of his first presidency. In total, nearly 1,600 people faced charges related to the Capitol attack, and 1,100 had received sentences by the time the Biden administration was nearing its end. More than 140 law enforcement officers suffered injuries during the Capitol attack. Cops and FBI race to protect World Cup from drones as Homeland Security boss admits ‘everybody’s a little behind’ June 7, 2026. San Francisco. Local police departments and federal agencies across the U.S. are racing to prepare anti-drone defenses ahead of the World Cup, which kicks off next week and is expected to draw up to 7 million visitors across the 11 American venues. Protecting the tournament is like “78 Super Bowls over 39 days,” Andrew Giuliani, executive director of President Trump’s World Cup task force, told The Associated Press, “and drones, which are increasingly popular among both hobbyists and soldiers in wars like the Iran and Ukraine conflicts, are topping the list of key dangers for many security officials”. Karen Read sues US police for alleged misconduct, negligence over boyfriend John O’Keefe’s death June 5, 2026. Massachusetts Karen Read is suing the Massachusetts State Police and the town of Canton over allegations of misconduct and negligence in the investigation of her Boston police officer boyfriend’s death. Last year, Ms Read was acquitted of allegations she hit John O’Keefe with her car and left him to die in the snow after a night of drinking with friends in January 2022. The lawsuit argues the acquittal revealed a culture “of bigotry, misogyny, systemic failures and institutional rot” within the police department. One killed as hundreds protest in Kenya against US Ebola quarantine centre June 9, 2026. Kenya At least one person has been killed after Kenyan police opened fire as hundreds of demonstrators protested a quarantine centre for US citizens exposed to Ebola, which the United States government is racing to build in the central town of Nanyuki. This is the third death among Kenyan protesters who are angry over the unit. Two protesters were also killed last week in skirmishes with local police. |
| Mothers Against Police Brutality (MAPB) Mothers Against Police Brutality (MAPB) is a Dallas-based multi-generational, multi-racial, and multi-ethnic coalition uniting people nationally, to hold law enforcement agencies more accountable. Collette Flanagan founded MAPB in 2013 after her son, Clinton Allen, an unarmed young Black man in custody, was shot to death by a Dallas police officer. Transforming grief into determination, Flanagan and MAPB are leading the charge to change deadly force policy in Dallas and throughout the U.S.; to lifting up families who have lost loved ones to police violence; and to reimagining public safety, divesting from police departments and investing in the health, housing, household incomes, human rights, creative arts, and overall well-being of our communities. www.mothersagainstpolicebrutality.org |
