Mothers Against Police Brutality’s Weekly Digest
03 July 2026
| Dear MAPB Friends and Supporters, Welcome to the fifth 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. |
| Autopsy heightens scrutiny of police shooting that killed 1-year-old July 2, 2026. USA An independent autopsy requested by the family of a 1-year-old boy who was shot to death by police in Mississippi raises new questions about officers’ actions, adding to growing calls for transparency in the weeks since the shooting. Doug Martin’s parents allege excessive force by police in wrongful death lawsuit June 26, 2026. Former NFL running back Doug Martin died after an excessive use of force by police and delayed medical care, according to a wrongful death lawsuit filed by Martin’s parents on Tuesday, June 23. A US military worker killed my son in Britain, and still we fight for justice. I’m angry that others are waiting too June 29, 2026. England. (Opinion) “When I read about the case of Sarah Steele, the woman strangled by an American pilot, I felt a familiar sickness in my stomach. It took me straight back to the day I lost my son Harry and to the months and years that followed, when the US authorities did everything they could to deny us justice. It is almost unbearable to think that another British family has now been put through the same ordeal. I thought those days were behind us following our high-profile case, and that the US military and British police had learned their lesson. Clearly not.” U.S. murder rate approaches a record low June 30, 2026. USA “The United States almost certainly had the lowest murder rate ever recorded in 2025, with the FBI having data back to 1960,” says crime data analyst Jeff Asher. “And the available evidence suggests that we’re going to go even lower this year.” Asher published his prediction in late May, basing it in part on the early data he collects directly from about 600 police agencies for his site The Crime Index. That nationally representative sampling shows murders dropped 18.7% in the first four months of this year, compared to the same period last year. All violent crime dropped 6.4%. |
| 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 |
