Former Houston Officer Wins Legal Victory In Deadly Raid Former Houston officer Gerald Goines has murder charges dismissed in deadly drug raid case. Families seek justice for victims. Top News · Mar 28, 2024
State Employer's Requiring Employees to Watch "Antiracist"/"Gender Identity" Videos Isn't Unconstitutional Speech Compulsion But plaintiff's claim that he was retaliated against for raising religious objections to the training, and discriminated against based on religion as to promotion, can go forward. Reason · Mar 27, 2024
‘They Don’t Want to Teach Black History’ Not far from a birthplace of the Black Lives Matter movement, a school district convulses after Black history and literature classes are canceled. Capital & Main · Mar 26, 2024
Revealed: disputed medical terms used to explain dozens of deaths after police restraint in UK Campaigners says ‘excited delirium’ and ‘acute behavioural disturbance’ play into racist stereotypes The Guardian - UK · Mar 17, 2024
Coleman Hughes vs. Radley Balko: Who's Right About George Floyd? On the latest episode of Just Asking Questions, Radley Balko debates Coleman Hughes about Hughes' recent column arguing that Derek Chauvin may have been wrongly convicted of George Floyd's murder. Reason · Mar 14, 2024
Minnesota Lawmakers Reach Compromise On School Police Authority Minnesota lawmakers are close to a compromise on police use of force in schools post-George Floyd's murder, emphasizing training and policy development for... Top News · Mar 4, 2024
A child's dream to 'drive' a space shuttle propels him toward a historic NASA mission Navy Capt. Victor Glover, who spent nearly six months aboard the International Space Station, will be among four astronauts to venture back to the moon for the first time since 1972. WEKU · Feb 27, 2024
‘I wanted to find the humanity in kids seen as scumbags’: George Amponsah on his Scorsese-style thriller He was obsessed with Scorsese while growing up. Now he’s made his own Mean Streets, about thieves falling into serious crime. The incendiary director talks about riots, police killings and redemption The Guardian - UK · Feb 5, 2024
Florida Legislation Would Ban Civilian Police Oversight Boards Florida Republicans and police unions insist that toothless civilian oversight boards are still more scrutiny than police deserve. Reason · Jan 25, 2024
Jon Ronson: Why We Went So Crazy During COVID Lockdowns The Things Fell Apart host explains how a 1988 quack medical concept inspired George Floyd's death in 2020 and how Plandemic rewrote Star Wars. Reason · Jan 24, 2024
Why We Went Crazy During COVID Lockdowns The Things Fell Apart host Jon Ronson explains how a 1988 quack medical concept inspired George Floyd's death in 2020 and how Plandemic is basically a rewrite of Star Wars. Reason · Jan 24, 2024
Employers' Talking "About Race—Any Race—With a Constant Drumbeat of Essentialist, Deterministic, and Negative Language" Risks Racial Harassment Liability So a federal district court just held. Reason · Jan 13, 2024
‘More mainstream’: In the UK, push for slavery reparations gains momentum As PM Sunak refuses to engage, civil society is working harder than ever to remedy historic horrors. Al Jazeera · Jan 13, 2024
Prosecutors urge rejection of ex-cop's bid to dismiss civil rights conviction in George Floyd murder Federal prosecutors have urged a judge to reject former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin’s attempt to overturn his civil rights conviction in the murder of George Floyd The Independent UK · Jan 13, 2024
The Independent UK · Jan 9, 2024 Supreme Court rejects appeal by ex-officer Tou Thao, who held back crowd as George Floyd lay dying The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review the federal civil rights conviction of a former Minneapolis police officer who held back a concerned crowd while fellow officers pinned down a dying George Floyd
Fortune · Jan 9, 2024 Highest U.S. rookie police salary is in San Francisco at $112,000 Only 26 people graduated from the Californian city’s police academy and entered the force in 2023—down 72% from 2019.
International Business Times · Jan 5, 2024 US Cop Jailed For 14 Months Over Death Of Black Man A white US police officer was sentenced to 14 months in prison Friday over the 2019 death of a young Black man who was put in a police chokehold and injected with ketamine.
The Guardian - UK · Jan 5, 2024 Head of Britain’s police chiefs says force ‘institutionally racist’ Exclusive: Gavin Stephens becomes most senior serving officer to accept discrimination in policing operates at a ‘fundamental level’
Reason · Dec 27, 2023 Who Killed Elijah McClain? Mixed Verdicts Reflect a Cascade of Ultimately Fatal Mistakes. Juries convicted two paramedics and one police officer of criminally negligent homicide but acquitted two other cops.
The Independent UK · Dec 22, 2023 Missouri school board that previously rescinded anti-racism resolution drops Black history classes A conservative-led Missouri school board has voted to drop elective courses on Black history and literature, five months after the same board rescinded an anti-discrimination policy adopted in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd
The Independent UK · Dec 21, 2023 California police officer who shot and killed unarmed kneeling man will not face charges California attorney general said a DoJ investigation found there was not enough evidence to charge officer Jarrett Tonn for the killing of Sean Monterrosa
The Independent UK · Dec 20, 2023 California's top prosecutor won't seek charges in 2020 fatal police shooting of Bay Area man California’s attorney general will not seek criminal charges against a Vallejo police officer who fatally shot a man, even though it turned out the gun he carried was fake
The Independent UK · Dec 17, 2023 Black American solidarity with Palestinians is rising and testing longstanding ties to Jewish allies A growing number of Black Americans see the struggle of Palestinians reflected in their own struggles for racial equality and civil rights
The Independent UK · Dec 16, 2023 Confederate memorial to be removed in coming days from Arlington National Cemetery A Confederate memorial's days at Arlington National Cemetery are numbered
The Guardian - US · Dec 16, 2023 Diversity policies face ‘full-out attack’ in 2024, leading HR boss warns President of the largest human resources organization in country says national shift following George Floyd’s 2020 murder is fading