Civil Rights & Social Justice
In November 2018, Robert Loggins, 26, found himself in a situation just like his mother. Killed by police, while in police custody.
The National Police Association wants the public to put away their cell phones during violent altercations between officers and civilians and start intervening instead of recording. "Stop filming and start helping," the organization said in a PSA posted to social media.
While the trial may have turned out favorably, the entire process doesn't reflect well on the criminal justice system. For starters, the case would not have even been handled by the Cobb County prosecutorial team if people just sat back and let the process run its course. Three prosecutors handled the case before it was assigned to the Cobb County team.
His release comes over 42 years after he was convicted of a triple homicide. It is the longest wrongful conviction in Missouri History and one of the longest in the country.
Beyond the verdict, the group has emphasized the need for transparent investigations of police misconduct and prosecutorial accountability for the first two prosecutors who obstructed justice.
It’s great you can rattle off the definition of privilege, yet when Black organizations ask you to stand with them, you find an excuse. You have more work to do.
Longtime North Carolina Rep. G.K. Butterfield, who presides over a district that has been held by a Black representative for nearly the last 30 years, won't seek re-election in part because of a "racially gerrymandered" redrawn congressional map.
Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio is asking a judge to either reduce his sentence for burning a BLM banner or allow him to finish it under house arrest because he's "deathly afraid that something is going to happen to me."
"The plant will be an additional source of air pollution in a community of color that already has one of the highest rates of asthma hospitalizations in the state."
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