Mothers Against Police Brutality’s Weekly Digest
02 October 2026
| Dear MAPB Friends and Supporters, Welcome to the sixteenth 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. |
| Police Broke Teeth and Bones of Students at US Encampments for Gaza October 1, 2026. USA. Novaramedia Thousands of pro-Palestine students were arrested on US college campuses, as part of a “widespread, McCarthyite censorship and retaliation campaign”, a new report has found. Federal oversight of Oakland Police Department ends after 23 years September 30, 2026. California. PBS News A federal judge on Tuesday ended federal monitoring of the Oakland Police Department after 23 years, capping the longest-running oversight of a police department in U.S. history. The police department made national news in 2000 after a rookie officer came forward to report abuse of power by a group of officers known as the Oakland “Riders.” The four officers were charged with making false arrests, planting evidence, using excessive force, falsifying police reports and assaulting people in west Oakland, a predominantly Black area. Three of the officers were acquitted after two separate juries deadlocked on most of the charges. The fourth officer is a fugitive and is believed to have fled the country. Venezuelan man shot by ICE officer in Texas is charged with assault September 29, 2026. Texas. Al Jazeera A Venezuelan asylum seeker who was shot in the back by a United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in Texas is facing a federal assault charge, after prosecutors accused him of striking the officer with his car’s side-view mirror. French student uprising grows in defiance against police brutality October 1, 2026. France. Socialist Worker The wave of school strikes across France is growing in size, confidence and anger. The revolt spread to universities on Thursday after several days of school student protests in the face of police brutality. Students blockaded around 30 university campuses from the morning, the UE national student union said. They included campuses in Paris, Strasbourg, Marseille, Lyon, Reims, Poitiers and Nanterre. |
| 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 |
