On the morning of May 28, 2020, a Black sergeant with the Little Rock, Arkansas, Police Department woke up, turned on the news, and saw the George Floyd video for the first time. “It was just a punch to the… Read More ›
Tag Archive for ‘Justice’
Texas National Guard Filmed Trespassing During Border Operations
It was early November when Marianna Treviño Wright saw a convoy of National Guard members in Humvees speed past the National Butterfly Center in Mission, Texas. Shortly thereafter, Treviño Wright, the center’s director, began to see soldiers with assault rifles… Read More ›
Louisiana Policy Intended to Reform Solitary Confinement Still Leaves People in Indefinite Lockdown
On July 24, 2021, Kermit Parker — also known as inmate No. 129332 — wouldn’t get on his knees. Officers were seeking to restrain Parker, who, along with scores of other incarcerated people, had been on hunger strike to protest solitary… Read More ›
Startup Pitched Tasing Migrants From Drones, Video Reveals
Brinc, a rising star among the many companies jockeying to sell drones to police, has a compelling founding mythology: In the wake of the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting, its young founder decided to aid law enforcement agencies through the… Read More ›
Two Companies Fight to Corner the Police Body Camera Market
When Minneapolis police murdered George Floyd, responsibility fell on 17-year-old bystander Darnella Frazier to capture the killing on a now-infamous cellphone video. Derek Chauvin, the former cop who was convicted of Floyd’s murder, was wearing a body camera at the… Read More ›
Former Guantánamo Detainee Disappeared After Return to Yemen, Family Says
Abdulqadir al Madhfari was a young physician’s assistant who dreamed of becoming a doctor. No one could have imagined that at the age of 25, he would be imprisoned for the next two decades, first by the United States, then… Read More ›
Rittenhouse Trial Judge Blocks Prosecutor From Asking If Far-Right Videographer Is Biased
Judge Bruce Schroeder, who is presiding over the murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin, interrupted the lead prosecutor on Thursday to prevent him from asking a far-right political commentator if the right-wing network he works for is biased. Judge Schroeder has… Read More ›
A Right-Wing Brawler Asked a Court to Protect Him From an Antifascist's Tweets
For two months now, the animosity between right-wing activists and left-wing antifascists, which regularly leads to violence at street protests, has played out in a setting where physical combat is not allowed: the Los Angeles Superior Court in Torrance, California…. Read More ›
School Officials Welcome Homeland Security Surveillance After Student Fights
In late October, after a series of student fights broke out at public schools in Prince George’s County, school district officials informed parents in the predominantly Black suburb of Washington, D.C., that they were taking steps to respond. “All has… Read More ›
Facing Months in Prison, Indigenous Activist Goes to Trial for Protesting Trump’s Wall
Fourteen months have passed since Amber Ortega, a 35-year-old member of the Hia Ced O’odham tribe, was arrested for blocking border wall construction that threatened a sacred desert oasis in southern Arizona. Ortega was taken into custody along with Nellie… Read More ›