On Saturday September 8th another case of Binghamton Police Department violence on a Black woman was reported by the YWCA on their facebook page.  Local press reports provide the official view and the charges the woman now faces, and a report in the BU campus newspaper. The woman is in the Broome County Jail, where protests  against the treatment of women in the new $6 million wing continue.
JUST rally April 2018
This takes place only a few weeks after a strongly supported local rally against police violence organized by Progressive Leaders of Tomorrow (PLOT).
And of course the history is much longer if often invisible:   Binghamton University Students  rallied in 2017 support of Black female students’ mistreatment by the BPD as well (and lack of University support in pressing complaints with the BPD). And then back in 2013 students and community protested the beating of a Black student by Dillinger’s staff while the police looked on,  and….