Mothers Against Police Brutality’s Weekly Digest
09 July 2026
| Dear MAPB Friends and Supporters, Welcome to the sixth edition of our series highlighting developments related to policing, police violence, accountability efforts, protest repression, and community resistance. Our sharing of these articles does not constitute an endorsement of their content, we only aim to spread awareness about current events. If you want to submit a news update for the bulletin, please email Alli@mapbdallas.com. If you were forwarded this email and want to sign up for our updates, visit the MAPB website. |
| Man fatally shot by ICE officer in Houston July 7, 2026, Houston Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers shot and killed a Mexican national during an incident in Houston on Tuesday, the agency said. This is the second ICE-involved shooting in less than a week. ICE alleged in a statement that its officers attempted to stop a vehicle driven by Lorenzo Salgado Araujo around 6:50 a.m. National Guard members on patrol in Memphis fatally shoot man during pursuit July 5, 2026. Tennessee Two Tennessee National Guard members assigned by the Trump administration to a crime-fighting patrol in Memphis fatally shot a man Sunday who turned toward the soldiers with a gun during a downtown pursuit, authorities said. The administration has ordered National Guard deployments in Memphis and five other Democrat-run cities, including New Orleans and Washington, D.C., to confront what Trump has described as an out-of-control crime wave — though violent crime in dozens of cities led by Democrats is down significantly since a pandemic high. Police officer shot nearly every day in 2026, new legislation aims to address violence July 7, 2026. Ohio 19 Investigates found in the first half of 2026, a police officer has been shot nearly every day across the country, according to data from the National Fraternal Order of Police. As of June 30, 2026, 169 officers nationwide had been shot in the line of duty. Fifteen officers were killed by gunfire, and 36 law enforcement officers were shot in 28 separate ambush-style attacks. French lawmakers back police shootings law dubbed ‘licence to kill’ by critics July 8, 2026. France French lawmakers have approved a proposed law that would give police officers involved in shootings the benefit of the doubt, which critics have dubbed a “licence to kill”. The proposition, a longstanding demand of the far-right, would mean that officers who killed someone by shooting would be presumed to have acted within the limits of the law, unless there was proof to the contrary. |
| 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 |
