School districts across the country are suddenly wrestling with the same question: Should police officers be in schools? In the wake of George Floyd’s killing, Minneapolis schools cut their contract with the local police department. Then Portland did. Then Denver. A majority of the Oakland school board members say they will, too, while Chicago’s school Read More…
Senate Judiciary A Committee Chairman Brice Wiggins, R-Pascagoula, calls out for support to help to combat crime in Jackson, Miss., by supporting the controversial Jackson Capitol Complex Improvement District bill, Thursday, March 30, 2023, at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss.Rogelio V. Solis/AP Mississippi Pushes More State Policing In Mostly Black City — The majority-white and Read More…
Senate Bill 673 “Ebony Alert” System To Report Missing Black Children and Young Women A California legislator proposed a bill to establish an “Ebony Alert” system that would inform people of missing Black children and young women — similar to the Amber Alert. State Sen. Steven Bradford (D-Gardena) introduced Senate Bill 673 last week, citing Read More…
n a trial, a Southern small-town prosecuting attorney called his first witness, a grandmotherly, elderly woman to the stand. He approached her and asked, ‘Mrs. Jones, do you know me?’ She responded, ‘Why, yes, I do know you, Mr. Williams. I’ve known you since you were a boy, and frankly, you’ve been a big disappointment Read More…
Irvo Otieno Died In Police Custody Video Shows Prosecutors released video on Tuesday of the March 6 chain of events that ended with the death of Irvo Otieno at Virginia’s Central State Hospital. The video shows sheriff’s deputies and medical staff at the hospital carrying a handcuffed Otieno into a room and placing him on Read More…
Injustice – Black Family Stopped for Tinted Windows And Kids Taken In Georgia On Feb 17, the parents were driving to a funeral in Chicago when Highway Patrol officers in rural Coffee County, Tennessee, pulled them over. Apparently, they had “dark tint[ed windows] and traveling in the left lane while not actively passing,” according to Read More…
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