Mothers Against Police Brutality’s Weekly Digest
25 June 2026
| Dear MAPB Friends and Supporters, Welcome to the fourth 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. |
| The National Police Association Urges U.S. Supreme Court to review the Police Use-of-Force Standard June 23, 2026. Indianapolis. The National Police Association (NPA) has filed an amicus curiae brief urging the United States Supreme Court to review Moore & Kurtz v. Romero, a case that strikes at the heart of “whether police officers can protect themselves and the public when confronted by an armed suspect.” The case arises from a Sixth Circuit decision denying qualified immunity to Officers Donovan Moore and Jeff Kurtz after they used deadly force against a suspect who reached for and gained control of a firearm during an arrest. The NPA argues that the ruling conflicts with decades of Supreme Court precedent and places officers across America in an impossible position: hesitate when a suspect obtains a gun and risk death, or act to stop the threat and risk financial ruin through years of litigation. When cops misuse social media June 23, 2026. USA A joint USA TODAY Network-Syracuse University investigation found police in New York face limited discipline for social media misconduct. Of the more than 2,500 records included in USA TODAY Network’s database of police disciplinary records, 13 cases involved officer misconduct on social media as a primary factor. The remaining cases — ranging from one officer posting “vulgar language” to another making a post alluding to the police killing of an unarmed Black man in an allegedly mocking tone — resulted in suspensions lasting no more than a single week, written reprimands, verbal warnings, two days of sensitivity training and loss of vacation days. Does race impact if you can walk away from police? Supreme court won’t decide June 22, 2026. Washington. The Supreme Court declined to hear a case on whether race can be considered when deciding if a person is free to leave a police encounter, leaving in place a lower‑court ruling that factored Black men’s lived experiences in overturning Donte Carter’s conviction. A District of Columbia Court of Appeals overturned Carter’s conviction, citing that Black Americans are disproportionately subject to police violence, which could affect whether a reasonable person feels free to leave the encounter. Texas anti-ICE protesters convicted of terrorism charges sentenced to at least 50 years in prison June 23, 2026. Texas A group of Texas protesters convicted of terrorism charges received unusually harsh sentences of at least 50 years in prison on Tuesday in a closely watched case that was widely seen as a test case of the Trump administration’s efforts to crack down on dissent. Civil liberties advocates have expressed alarm over the case involving a protest outside the Prairieland Detention Center. |
| 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 |
