Mothers Against Police Brutality’s Weekly Digest
06 August 2026
| Dear MAPB Friends and Supporters, Welcome to the tenth 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. We are including updates about ICE abuses because ICE is also law enforcement. 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. |
| Sean Grayson, officer who shot Sonya Massey, denied medical release from 20-year prison sentence July 31, 2026. NBC News Sean Grayson, the man who fatally shot Sonya Massey in her home in 2024, has been denied medical release by the Illinois Prisoner Review Board, a board spokesperson said Friday. Police chief resigns days after deadly shooting in US city of Seattle July 31, 2026. Seattle. Al Jazeera Shon Barnes steps down amid questions over authorities’ handling of the shooting at a popular food festival. The move came after three people were killed and four injured, including a two-year-old boy, in a shootout on Sunday at the annual Bite of Seattle food festival. Chico PD granted ICE, Border Patrol, access to its ALPR data July 25, 2026. California In a recent interview, Chief of Police Billy Aldridge indicated, at one point, that he had been unaware federal and out-of-state agencies had access to the city’s ALPR system. “As we started producing the information for the PRA, we found out, holy cow, we’re sharing with these people and actually when it was set up we shouldn’t have been sharing outside of California or with the federal agencies,” Aldridge said in a Zoom interview on July 22. “We immediately shut it off.” Family of New Jersey man who died in ICE custody accuses agency of ‘medical neglect’ August 4, 2026. New Jersey. NBC News The family of a 41-year-old Salvadoran man who died Saturday at an immigration detention center in New Jersey is claiming that medical negligence is to blame for his death. ICE said Edwin Lopez-Cornejo suffered a “medical emergency,” while the family says he wasn’t properly treated to keep his medical conditions under control and called for an investigation. US federal judge blocks New York’s ban on ICE officers wearing masks August 4, 2026. New York A New York law banning US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from wearing face coverings and requiring that they wear visible identification has been put on hold by a federal judge. But a state law prohibiting cooperation between local police departments and ICE has been allowed to stand. The mask ruling comes after federal judges have blocked similar laws in California, Virginia and Pennsylvania that sought to ban federal immigration agents from covering their faces. They are still required to wear agency identification badges and badge numbers. Pakistan precinct suspends all 78 officers and staff over alleged rape at police station August 5, 2026. Pakistan The alleged rape of a 20-year-old woman with learning disabilities in a police station in Lahore, Pakistan, has prompted authorities to suspend all 78 police officers and staff at the precinct, in one of the country’s biggest ever disciplinary actions against its police force. |
| 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 |
