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A Mpls Cop Accused of Sending Racist Emails, Gets Promoted
A Minneapolis officer accused of sending off a racist email has been promoted to a new role.
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Southern California City Hit With Consent Order Over Racist Eviction Policy
What happened in Hesperia underscores why reparations could soon be a thing in California.
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DOJ to Investigate Police Practices in Minneapolis
Less than a day after Derek Chauvin was convicted of murdering George Floyd, the U.S. Department of Justice announced a civil investigation into police practices in Minneapolis. The DOJ will determine if the Minneapolis Police Department uses excessive force, engages in discriminatory conduct, and whether its treatment of people with mental health issues violates any…
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Jeff Sessions Is Just Being a White Man
I know that I consistently refer to white men who make racists comments as racists but I’m starting to rethink that. In a New York Times Magazine article published Tuesday, U.S. Senate candidate and former Attorney General Jeff Sessions referred to renowned scholar and Black Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. as “some criminal.” In…
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Federal Judge Places Consent Decree on Racist Mississippi County Sheriff’s Department
A federal judge has ordered a Mississippi county sheriff’s office to make sweeping changes after a civil rights lawsuit accused the county’s law enforcement agency of targeting black residents for years. On Thursday, a federal judge in the Southern District of Mississippi issued a landmark settlement in the case of Brown v. Madison County (pdf). The…
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Chicago Tribune Editorial Board Has an Epic Clapback for Jeff Sessions
Apparently we at The Root—and specifically, staff writer Michael Harriot—are not the only ones adept at delivering a great clapback when the time calls for it. The Chicago Tribune editorial board proved Thursday that they are also in the clapback game, especially when it concerns U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions. First, a bit of background.…
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New Study Says the Record of Chicago Cop Who Killed Laquan McDonald Could Have Predicted Deadly Encounter
A new study that analyzes more than 10 years of civilian complaints finds that Chicago police officers with the highest numbers of complaints are also the most likely to have high-profile (and high-cost) civil rights lawsuits filed against them in the future. I know, I know. That would appear to be fairly obvious, right? The…
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Community Groups Finalize Consent Decree Demands for Chicago Police Department
How officers with the Chicago Police Department interact with black and brown people as well as those with disabilities, young people, women and LGBTQI individuals is the focus of a proposed consent decree that would overhaul the accountability and disciplinary systems as well as create new performance metrics for the evaluation of police officers. The…
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Baltimore’s Consent Decree Calls for Improvements to Civilian Review Board, but There Isn’t One
When the city of Baltimore reached its agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice on the terms of a legally binding consent decree, one of the things the city promised to do was make improvements to its Civilian Review Board, an independent oversight committee made up of city residents. There’s just one problem: There is…
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Baltimore and the Department of Justice Release Details of Consent Decree Agreement
The U.S. Department of Justice and the city of Baltimore announced Thursday that they have reached an agreement on a court-enforceable consent decree that will bring sweeping reforms to the Baltimore Police Department. The Justice Department made the full 227-page consent decree available on its website and states that its purpose is to “ensure that…
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