Collette Flanagan

Overview

Collette Flanagan founded Mothers Against Police Brutality (MAPB) after her son Clinton Allen was shot to death by a Dallas police officer in March 2013. Collette s experiences in the aftermath of this official homicide the indifference of Dallas City Hall the lack of any assistance to the surviving family the vilification of her son in the media turned her grief into anger and then into action. The purposes of MAPB are to stop the killing of unarmed and mentally ill persons especially black men by law enforcement agencies to change police deadly force policies and practices in Dallas and nationally to support families who have lost loved ones to police violence and to help restore trust between the police and the communities they are sworn to serve and protect. A former IBM executive Collette Flanagan has in a very short time built MAPB into an inter generational multi ethnic multicultural organization with both a local and national presence.