justice
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Officer Who Shot and Killed Eric Logan Will Not be Charged…Per Usual
For the better part of a year in South Bend, Indiana, the family of Eric Logan has been seeking justice after the 54-year old was fatally shot by a police officer last June. Unfortunately (though predictably) their saga ends the way most stories involving cops, black people and extrajudicial executions end: with police officers receiving…
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Louisiana DA Tries to Remove Black Judge from Hundreds of Cases After She Spoke Out Against Racial Injustice
Some funny things happen when you try to tell the truth. In Louisiana, for instance, a white district attorney is actively undermining and delegitimizing a black judge for daring to say that the criminal justice system “disproportionately puts African Americans in more harm or risk than anyone else.” As the Acadiana Advocate reports, Sixteenth Judicial…
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#FreeRodneyReed Family Members, Supporters (Including Kim Kardashian West) Demand Justice for Death Row Inmate Weeks Before Execution
Kim Kardashian West for the people! Family, friends and supporters of Rodney Reed—including the social media and reality TV superstar—want justice, and they are making their voices heard far and wide about what is considered a miscarriage of justice, by some, including Kim Kardashian West. On Saturday, nearly a hundred supporters rallied outside of the…
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Fed Up With the Criminal Justice System, Man Acts as His Own Attorney and Gets Acquitted After Serving 13 Years for Murder
Philly native Hassan Bennett had always maintained his innocence, but unfortunately, our faulty criminal justice system ensured it would take him four trials and 13 years to finally prove it. The Washington Post reports that on September 22, 2006, Bennett was accused of orchestrating the murder of his friend Devon English, 19, over a $20…
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Prosecutor Kim Foxx Defends Decision in Jussie Smollett Case, Calls Police Backlash 'Disheartening'
At an event hosted by the Reverend Jesse Jackson last weekend, Cook County Prosecutor Kim Foxx held the line on her office’s decision to dismiss charges against Empire actor Jussie Smollett, whom Chicago Police say orchestrated a hate-crime hoax in January. As Page Six reports, Foxx gave a press conference at the Saturday Rainbow PUSH…
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James A. Fields Jr., Proud Neo-Nazi, Is Now a Convicted Murderer
Late in the summer of 2017, during the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va, then 20-year-old James A. Fields Jr., who had driven more than 500 miles from his home state of Ohio, sat in his Dodge Challenger near a crowd. Fields, who was turned away by the Army after graduating high school two…
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Kavanaugh’s Confirmation Proves White Male Privilege Is Invincible
His confirmation might come as a shock to some, but for many of us, it was a foregone conclusion.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg: I've Got About 5 More Years on the Supreme Court Before I Retire
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the oldest member of the Supreme Court, says she’s got about five more years, just long enough for righteous America to vote Donald Trump out of office before she retires. “I’m now 85,” Ginsburg said, according to CNN. “My senior colleague, Justice John Paul Stevens, he stepped down when he was…