Criminal Justice
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Family of Tamir Rice Wants Biden Administration to Reopen Federal Investigation Into his Death
The family of Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old boy who was fatally shot by Cleveland police officers in 2014, is campaigning for the Biden administration to reopen the federal investigation into the boy’s death. According to Buzzfeed News, the Rice family is working alongside community organizers to pressure the Department of Justice to reopen its investigation…
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Georgia Man Free After Spending 2 Years in Jail for a Crime He Didn’t Commit
It’s really hard to have faith in a system that routinely allows cops to get away with things that would see the rest of us locked up, while at the same time incarcerating innocent people over weak cases with questionable evidence. A man in Augusta, Ga., spent two years in jail for a crime he…
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Judge Rules Derek Chauvin Could Face Longer Sentencing Since He Treated George Floyd With ‘Particular Cruelty’
When former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of the murder in the death of George Floyd, there was slight relief but one nagging question in the back of many our minds: “OK, but what’s the sentence going to be?” While there was, and still is, concern that Chauvin will face the lightest…
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Prosecutors Will Seek Death Penalty, Hate Crime Charges for Atlanta Spa Shooter
The man accused of killing eight people—including six Asian women—in a shooting spree at three Atlanta-area spas has been indicted by a grand jury on murder charges, and the prosecutor has indicated that she will also seek hate crime charges as well as the death penalty. The Associated Press reports the Fulton County grand jury…
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Exclusive Clip: Reform L.A. Jails Wants to Reinvest the $1.6 Million for School Overpolicing Into the Community
“Education, not incarceration.” There have been reports in the past that show increased policing is not an effective way to reduce crimes committed in schools, yet the overpolicing continues. This issue has been especially highlighted in the past year, due to the increased visibility of movements such as “defund the police” and “abolish the police.”…
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Federal Grand Jury Indicts Derek Chauvin and 3 Other Ex-Cops on Civil Rights Violations
Seeing actions actually have consequences for cops is a continually bizarre experience. A federal grand jury has indicted Derek Chauvin and the three other officers involved in the death of George Floyd on U.S. civil rights charges. According to the Star Tribune, documents that were unsealed on Friday reveal that former Minneapolis police officers Derek…
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DNA Test in 1993 Arkansas Killing Reveals Genetic Material of Someone Other Than the Black Man Who Was Executed for the Crime
So many horrific things happen in America’s courts that’s it’s amazing so many people believe we have a fair, just and totally not racist legal system. We’ve seen countless stories about Black men serving time for decades only to be found innocent years later. In Arkansas, DNA testing has revealed genetic material of an “unknown…