Civil Rights
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America’s New Reality Reads Like Old Warnings:
Orwell, Greenlee, and Anne Frank All Told Us This Was Coming There’s a strange, heavy rhythm to the chaos unfolding across America right now. You can feel it in the way people walk. In the way parents stand at windows a little longer. In the way every siren cuts through the air with a different…
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Trump May Abandon Federal Police Oversight From New York to …
[ad_1] One of the Justice Department’s goals under President Joe Biden was to investigate some of the nation’s most troubled police agencies, including the ones responsible for the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Tyre Nichols. Two months into President Donald Trump’s second term, the prospect of federal oversight appears likely to disappear in…
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GUILTY!
Jury convicts former Kentucky officer of using excessive force on Breonna Taylor during deadly raid On March 13, 2020, Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency medical technician, was fatally shot in her Louisville, Kentucky, apartment during a flawed police raid. Officers executing a no-knock warrant as part of a narcotics investigation entered her home, leading to…
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Drug Testing of Pregnant Patients Is Discriminatory, Lawsuit…
[ad_1] This is The Marshall Project’s Closing Argument newsletter, a weekly deep dive into a key criminal justice issue. Want this delivered to your inbox? Subscribe to future newsletters. Last week, New Jersey became the first state in the nation to file suit against a hospital for drug testing patients who give birth. The lawsuit,…