Tuesday, July 5, 2022

Criminal Justice and Racism and Ageism and other discrimination related links 070422


Do the Police Have an Obligation to Protect You?

https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/law-and-life/do-the-police-have-an-obligation-to-protect-you/

 

BLACK TRANS WOMAN DIES IN DALLAS POLICE CUSTODY, REPORTEDLY STRUGGLED FOR AIR AFTER PLACED IN SPIT HOOD

https://www.blackenterprise.com/black-trans-woman-dallas-police/

 

Tennessee sheriff’s office warns people not to pick up folded dollar bills because they may contain fentanyl: Fentanyl is behind a spike in overdose deaths in recent months

https://www.foxnews.com/us/tennessee-sheriffs-office-folded-dollar-bills-fentanyl

 

Are Folded, Fentanyl-Laced Dollar Bills a Safety Threat?  A warning issued by a sheriff's office in Tennessee prompted scary headlines in several other states.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/folded-fentanyl-laced-dollar-bills/

 

How The White Replacement Theory Behind The Buffalo Shooting Also Fueled The January 6 Insurrection: Black folks have always known there was a persistent subconscious white fear of violent retaliation since slavery.

https://blavity.com/how-the-white-replacement-theory-behind-the-buffalo-shooting-also-fueled-the-january-6-insurrection

 

SOUTH AFRICAN BOXER CONTEMPLATES SUICIDE AFTER BEING BLAMED FOR OPPONENT’S DEATH: ‘I AM GOING TO KILL MYSELF’

https://www.blackenterprise.com/siphesihle-mntungwar-south-african-boxer/

 

POLICE OFFICER RESIGNS AFTER VIDEO CIRCULATES OF HIM HARASSING BLACK WOMAN

https://theblackwallsttimes.com/2022/06/13/police-officer-resigns-after-video-circulates-of-him-harassing-black-woman/

 

PATRIOT FRONT LEADER AND FOLLOWERS ARRESTED NEAR IDAHO PRIDE

https://theblackwallsttimes.com/2022/06/13/patriot-front-leader-and-followers-arrested-near-idaho-pride/

 

Native children’s remains to be moved from Army cemetery

https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2022/06/14/native-childrens-remains-to-be-moved-from-army-cemetery/

 

'Everyone Can Rally Around Bicycles': Vets to Honor All-Black Corps with Ride

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/06/14/everyone-can-rally-around-bicycles-vets-honor-all-black-corps-ride.html

 

‘I May Be Too Honest for This Position’: New Jersey Police Director Alleges She Was Fired Because of Her ‘Refusal to Participate In Preferential Treatment of White’ Officers

https://atlantablackstar.com/2022/06/14/i-may-be-too-honest-for-this-position-new-jersey-police-director-alleges-she-was-fired-because-of-her-refusal-to-participate-in-preferential-treatment-of-white-officers/

 

THREE MEN ARRESTED FOR FATAL BEATING OF AKRON TEENAGER IN LEBRON JAMES’ I PROMISE SCHOOL’S PARKING LOT

https://www.blackenterprise.com/three-men-arrested-for-akron-teenager-i-promise-school-parking-lot/

 

2 Arrested After Supergluing Themselves to Chicago Starbucks Countertop to Protest Vegan Milk Upcharge: Two protesters were escorted out by police and arrested

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/peta-supporters-superglue-themselves-to-chicago-starbucks-countertop-to-protest-vegan-milk-upcharge/2858158/

 

Texas congressman blames women for ‘reduced’ standards in the military: "Even volunteer women in the military cause the standards to be reduced," he said.

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/texas-congressman-women-military-standards/

 

The 'Simpsonville Slaughter,' a Kentucky Civil War massacre we tried to ignore | Opinion

https://www.courier-journal.com/story/opinion/2022/02/10/kentucky-civil-war-massacre-we-almost-forgot-opinion/6689407001/

 

Military-Grade Surveillance in Schools Won’t Stop the Next Mass Shooting, but It Will Increase the Policing of Black Students: Congress is planning to throw more money at school “security” as part of the bipartisan gun deal.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166838/schools-mass-shooting-surveillance-black-students

 

Pfizer CEO Dr. Albert Bourla on His Family Story and Jewish Roots - Premiered Feb 18, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzzHtvRHkMk

 

Jewish Heroes Battling Covid: In Honor of 2022 Genesis Prize Laureate Dr. Albert Bourla - Feb 9, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQGGiRcaVSA

 

A Framework to Understand Systemic Racism in Health

http://healthjusticemonitor.org/?fbclid=IwAR3t9LHWgxHe-jOZNDMyPA6NDcI0LjIbqC4A8etS7LnZptZC3QXXl3FHh4s

 

'Who Can Look Out Better for Us Than Ourselves': College Basketball Player Becomes First Black Woman to Earn Doctorate In Biochemistry at Florida University, After First Finding Her Footing at an HBCU

https://atlantablackstar.com/2022/06/16/find-your-tribe-first-black-woman-to-earn-doctorate-in-biochemistry-at-florida-university-who-first-found-footing-at-a-hbcu-on-track-to-becoming-a-stem-professor/

 

How Deep Is America’s Reckoning with Racism?  Juneteenth is an opportunity to recover the possibilities of history

https://newrepublic.com/article/162609/juneteenth-america-reckoning-racism

 

Washington’s Hundred-Year War on Gays: A rich, harrowing chronicle of the federal government’s oppression of homosexuals in the 20th century firmly refuses to draw any connection to today’s struggles.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/05/28/washingtons-hundred-year-war-on-gays/

 

Alabama Teen Accepted To 15 Top Universities With $2 Million In Scholarships: Rotimi Kukoyi will study public health and pursue "a career driving health equity in our nation.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rotimi-kukoyi-15-schools_n_62afd379e4b0c77098b02e6b

 

GORILLA WARFARE Narco-monkey in custom-made bulletproof vest found dead after bloody cartel shootout

https://www.the-sun.com/news/5586101/narco-monkey-killed-mexico-cartel-shootout/

 

Filipino Government Attorney John Albert Laylo Killed In Philadelphia While Heading To Airport With Mom, Police Say

https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2022/06/20/john-albert-laylo-shot-killed-filipino-lawyer-philippines-university-city-philadelphia/

 

America’s Black Founders: David Hackett Fischer demonstrates the centrality of people of African descent in shaping this country’s regional cultures.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/06/20/americas-black-founders/

 

Uvalde school massacre could have been stopped in 3 minutes, DPS says at Senate hearing - Jun 21, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhiS-VsXscY

 

‘The Times Is Telling You to Choose Between Rights and Safety’: CounterSpin interview with  Alec Karakatsanis on Chesa Boudin recall

https://fair.org/home/the-times-is-trying-to-tell-you-to-choose-between-rights-and-safety/

 

Defecting from Supremacy: Joining the Struggle for Collective Liberation

https://mailchi.mp/whiteawake/defecting-2022-announcement?e=b5e8d33319

 

Uvalde school district suspends police chief

https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Uvalde-Police-Chief-on-leave-17259361.php

 

Georgia Supreme Court tosses out conviction of father who left toddler in hot car

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/murder-conviction-overturned-justin-ross-harris-georgia-father-left-to-rcna34723

 

Older Black Adults Three Times More Likely to Die From Air Pollution Than White Elders, New Study Finds

https://www.onegreenplanet.org/human-interest/older-black-adults-three-times-more-likely-to-die-from-air-pollution-than-white-elders-new-study-finds/

 

The Conservatives on the Supreme Court Have Officially Become Homicidal: In a shocking recent decision, the nation’s highest court ruled that “innocence isn’t enough” to spare a person the death penalty.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/supreme-court-shinn-ramirez/

 

When Innocence Isn’t Enough: Christopher Dunn has spent more than 30 years in prison for a murder he and others say he didn’t commit. The state of Missouri says he must stay there—because he wasn’t sentenced to death.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166767/christopher-dunn-missouri-murder-innocent

 

U.K. ‘Needle Spiking’ Panic Fuels Fear—and Folklore

https://skepticalinquirer.org/2022/05/u-k-needle-spiking-panic-fuels-fear-and-folklore/

 

Rep. Miller thanks Trump for 'victory for white life,' campaign says she misread remarks: A spokesman for Miller said she meant to say "right to life" in her remarks.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/rep-miller-thanks-trump-victory-white-life-campaign-says-misread-remar-rcna35359

 

“They Force You to Work”: State and local governments are racking up profits and savings through unpaid labor in prisons, a new report documents.

https://boltsmag.org/unpaid-prison-labor-report/

 

The Controversial Legal Strategy Behind the Indictment of Young Thug: The RICO Act, which was designed to go after the Mafia, is now used to target supposed members of predominantly Black street gangs. Critics say the law is being stretched very thin.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-south/the-controversial-legal-strategy-behind-the-indictment-of-young-thug

 

Vatican Releases Letters From Jews Pleading for Help During the Holocaust: Pope Francis has ordered files containing requests for assistance from people throughout Europe, many of them converts to Roman Catholicism, to be made available online.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/24/world/europe/pope-vatican-jews-second-world-war.html

 

Honoring Anne Frank

https://www.google.com/doodles/honoring-anne-frank?doodle=236393864&platform=2&domain_name=google.com&hl=en

 

Texas Cops SCHOOLED after racially profiling Police Graduate - Jun 25, 2022 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e25iCYr4bAg

 

‘It was not a slap,’ says lawyer of Staten Island ShopRite worker arrested in Rudy Giuliani incident

https://www.silive.com/crime-safety/2022/06/it-was-not-a-slap-says-lawyer-of-staten-island-shoprite-worker-arrested-in-rudy-giuliani-incident.html

 

Ghislaine Maxwell is sentenced to 20 years in prison

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/28/1107899156/ghislaine-maxwell-is-sentenced-to-20-years-in-prison

 

101-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard sentenced to five years for Holocaust atrocities

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/28/europe/nazi-holocaust-camp-guard-sentencing-intl/index.html

 

Neil Gorsuch Couldn’t Save Tribal Sovereignty From His Conservative Colleagues’ Wrath: The justice’s contemptuous denunciations of the majority opinion drew an unusually caustic response from his fellow conservative Brett Kavanaugh.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166952/gorsuch-kavanaugh-fight-tribal-sovereignty

 

I Have Studied Child Protective Services for Decades. It Needs to Be Abolished.  It’s shockingly easy for CPS to destroy poor, Black families.

https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2022/04/abolish-child-protective-services-torn-apart-dorothy-roberts-book-excerpt/

 

Her Boyfriend Killed Her Baby While She Was at Work. Oklahoma Is Sending Her to Prison.  Hundreds of women in the state have faced similar charges.

https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2022/02/child-abuse-mothers-sexist-failure-to-protect-law-rebecca-hogue-oklahoma/

 

Ketanji Brown Jackson sworn in as Supreme Court's 1st Black woman justice: With Jackson's ascension to the bench, for the first time, white men are not representing the majority of SCOTUS.

https://6abc.com/supreme-court-ketanji-brown-jackson-sworn-in-justice-stephen-breyer/12004250/

 

'I Think It's a Lowball Charge': Two Alabama White Women Charged with 'Disorderly Conduct' for Threatening to ‘Shoot a N—– In Walmart’

https://atlantablackstar.com/2022/06/29/alabama-white-women-charged-for-video-threatening-to-shoot-a-n-in-walmart/0

 

He Liked the Pro-America, Pro-Constitution Vibe. But He Liked the Rage, Too.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/06/26/he-liked-pro-america-pro-constitution-vibe-he-liked-rage-too.html?ESRC=navy-a_220629.nl

 

MEET DONALD BOONE

https://www.blackenterprise.com/sponsored/?prx_t=UK0HAXQxWAMH4RA&ntv_acpl=1146416&ntv_acsc=0&ntv_ht=7BjBYgA

 

'A Giant Leap for African-Americans': Colonel Makes History as First Black Officer to Command Arkansas Army National Guard

https://atlantablackstar.com/2022/06/22/a-giant-leap-for-african-americans-colonel-makes-history-as-first-black-officer-to-command-arkansas-army-national-guard/

 

Why We Need Speechwriters Who Look Like America: America’s first Black presidential speechwriter on how leaders can speak more effectively to a diversifying country.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/06/20/why-we-need-speechwriters-who-look-like-america/

 

Washington’s Hundred-Year War on Gays: A rich, harrowing chronicle of the federal government’s oppression of homosexuals in the 20th century firmly refuses to draw any connection to today’s struggles.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/06/20/washingtons-hundred-year-war-on-gays/

 

Dozens of white supremacists in group called Patriot Front seen marching through Boston

https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/white-supremacists-boston-patriot-front-mayor-michelle-wu/

 

A false positive on a drug test upended these mothers’ lives

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/07/02/false-positive-drug-test-mothers/

 

Get the F*** Out of My Town’: 48-Year-Old Connecticut Man Confronts 11-Year-Old Black Boy Three Times Before Pushing Him Off His Bike; Arrested for Third-Degree Assault

https://atlantablackstar.com/2022/07/02/get-the-f-out-of-my-town-48-year-old-connecticut-man-confronts-11-year-old-black-boy-three-times-before-pushing-him-off-his-bike-arrested-for-third-degree-assault/

 

When Reagan's Racism Saved Lives: Armed Black Men Meant Immediate Gun Control.  When armed Black Panthers showed up at the California State Capitol to confront then-Gov. Reagan in 1967, the White freakout resulted in swift gun control legislation that probably saved thousands of lives.

https://www.populist.com/28.12.Hartmann.html

 

Couple gets $1.5K fine for parking in their driveway despite doing so for nearly 40 years

https://abc7chicago.com/parking-ticket-pay-san-francisco-california-noe-valley/12011843/

 

2 Police Officers Shot During Fourth Of July Festivities On Ben Franklin Parkway - Jul 4, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_UB_FW-N3o

 

Akron police release 'heartbreaking' body cam videos of officers killing Jayland Walker

https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/local/2022/07/03/jayland-walker-akron-police-release-videos-fatal-shooting/7789130001/

 

The civil rights legacy of Horace Mann Bond, Lincoln University’s first Black president: Bond’s research helped make school segregation illegal, and his son would go on to co-found the Southern Poverty Law Center.

https://billypenn.com/2022/07/02/the-civil-rights-legacy-of-horace-mann-bond-lincoln-universitys-first-black-president/

 

Uvalde school district police chief plans to resign from city council post, officials say: Pete Arredondo was sworn as a city council member days after the mass shooting.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/uvalde-school-district-police-chief-plans-resign-city/story

 

2 dead and 4 injured, including 3 officers, in Texas shooting, police say

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/03/us/texas-haltom-city-deadly-shooting/index.html

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