In 2022, a national outrage occurred when 17-year-old Erik Cantu was shot by former SAPD officer James Brennand in a McDonald’s parking lot. Yesterday, it was announced that Brennand is no longer facing...
On Oct. 2, 2022, former SAPD Officer James Brennand shot and wounded 17-year-old Erik Cantu. The incident occurred in a McDonald’s parking lot where Cantu was eating in his car when Brennand approached...
The city of Memphis, Tennessee, has been holding its breath for the past couple of weeks, awaiting the release of body camera footage from the Memphis Police Department after a routine traffic stop resulted...
On Saturday, Jan. 28, San Antonio’s chapter of the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) organized a vigil and speakout at Martin Luther King Plaza to demand justice for Tyre Nichols.
Nichols...
How long will it take for police officers to be held accountable for their actions? What gives police officers the right to be the judge, jury and executioner? These are questions that have been swept...
On Oct. 2, 2022, Officer James Brennand of the San Antonio Police Department (SAPD) shot and wounded 17-year-old Erik Cantu in a McDonald’s parking lot. Cantu was in the lot eating when Officer Brennand...
Ahavah Kirwan, Contributing Writer
• October 4, 2022
On Sept. 16, 2022, 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish woman from Iran, died due to police brutality. Her death has sparked outrage — with mass protests taking place in Iran and internationally against...
“For I owe more to the dead, with whom I will spend a much longer time, than I ever will to the living,” (Sophocles, 90-92) Antigone wails to her sister, Ismene. Sophocles’ “Antigone” is a living,...
Tae Tran, Assistant Opinon Editor
• April 30, 2021
In light of the Derek Chauvin case, the demand for police reform has increased dramatically across the nation, and San Antonio isn’t an exception.
Proposition B has been proposed on the...
Prior to George Floyd and Breonna Taylor’s deaths, the country had already shouldered a global pandemic, a collapsing economy and was on the cusp of boiling over from grief over the spirit of a nation...
Defunding the police is a referendum on American values and should not be confused with abolishing the police. In short, defunding the police can be described as the reallocation or redirection of funding...
Last week, Kendall Jenner single-handedly ended police brutality, racial violence and tensions with a can of Pepsi.
The American fashion model and television personality was featured in a short-lived...
