Cleveland police officers involved in last November’s deadly high speed car chase that ended in the firing of 137 bullets at an unarmed black couple, will remain on the force despite being found guilty of breaking policy. Cleveland Police Chief Michael McGrath said Tuesday that a series of disciplinary hearings surrounding the chase found 64 […]
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In 2010, Shannon Anthony Scott, then 33, was arrested for the murder of 17-year-old Darrell Andre Niles, an unarmed black teen who was found shot to death in his car around 2:30 am on April 18 of that year. However, Richland County Judge Maite Murphy has thrown out those charges, ruling on Wednesday that Scott reasonably believed […]
Under the leadership of Republican Governor Rick Scott and a GOP-controlled legislature, Florida has embarked on a massive push for the privatization of prison healthcare services. Most recently, the Florida Department of Corrections awarded a $1.2 billion, five-year contract to Corizon, a Tennessee-based prison healthcare provider that began serving 41 correctional facilities in August. This […]
(See drone update at the bottom) House Republicans are heartless assholes for shutting down the government over a healthcare reform law that isn’t even affected by the shutdown. But the people in charge of determining what gets funded and what gets axed in the event of a shutdown are proving to be even bigger monsters.
Rafiq ur Rehman and his two children, 9-year-old Nebila and 13-year-old Zubiar, are from the tribal regions of north Waziristan, an area of Pakistan that has been devastated by US drone strikes. Last year, Rafiq’s children were injured by a drone strike that also killed his 67-year-old mother (the children’s grandmother), Mamana. Rafiq’s story is featured […]
Last night, House Republicans passed a bill that cuts $40 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), otherwise known as food stamps, one of the few safety nets available to the 47 million Americans living below the poverty line. Nevertheless, a majority of our elected representatives seem to view food as a luxury that the […]
In the Public Interest (ITPI) released a damning report that reveals an overwhelming majority of contracts between for-profit prisons and local governments include “lockup quotas” and “low crime taxes”, language that basically guarantees a profit. Sixty-five percent of the 62 private prison contracts ITPI analyzed included bed occupancy guarantees—whereby the state promises to keep 80 to […]
Former Los Angeles police chief William “Bill” Bratton is a staunch supporter of stop and frisk—a practice that intensifies racial profiling and police brutality towards black and brown people while failing to prevent crime. Bratton loves stop and frisk so much that he says cities without it are “doomed to failure.” So imagine my surprise when […]
Philip Agnew of the Dream Defenders and Sofia Campos of United We Dream were scheduled to speak at yesterday’s commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington. Both are youth led organizations tackling civil rights issues like immigration, racial profiling and the school-to-prison pipeline. That might explain why the were cut from the roster last […]
(Updated below) Fifty-four-year-old Stacey Dean Rambold, a former high school teacher in Montana, was sentenced to 30 days in prison for raping 14-year-old Cherice Morales. That’s right, just 30 days.
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