Abuse by the US Justice system

• Meet James Fyfe, the NOPD homicide detective who has solved 20 cases in a row December 21, 2024 12:45 pm NOLA - Louisiana Detective James Fyfe isn’t comfortable talking about his success. His colleagues in the New Orleans Police Department, however, don’t share those reservations. They created the “Fyfe-O-Meter” just to keep up: a modest whiteboard that tracks the detective…
• Charged for Protesting Police Violence in 2020, Khalif Miller Is Still in Jail December 19, 2024 8:44 pm Truthout This story was originally published at Prism. Four years and two presidential election seasons after the 2020 uprisings, much of the intense mainstream attention around issues of abolition and police violence has receded into increasingly distant memory. …
• The Legacy of the British Legal System Continues to Inflict Misery in Sierra Leone December 19, 2024 5:31 pm The Nation A few summers ago, I met a young man in a prison in the center of Sierra Leone. The man was thin and tall, with a gentle demeanor and shy smile. His clothes were worn and smelled of stale sweat, which wasn’t surprising given that the prison, with its tin …
• Kerwin Harris died after a St. Louis cop held him in a chokehold. It was ruled an accident December 17, 2024 12:29 pm St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Missouri Kerwin Harris with his daughter shortly before he died in 2012, and in two undated images. Family photographs Kerwin Harris’ heart beat for the last time as he lay on the ground of a residential St. Louis street. Harris was chased, pinned face-down and …
• Bengaluru Techie Suicide Case: Lawyers Call for Legal Reforms After Atul Subhash’s Death, Say ‘Make 498-A Bailable, Gender-Neutral, Mandatory Mediation’ December 11, 2024 11:11 am Latestly New Delhi, December 11: Delhi-based Senior Advocate Vikas Pahwa on Wednesday spoke on the Bengaluru techie suicide case citing possible misuse of Section 498 A of the Indian Penal Code and said that the case should be taken into serious consideration as it …
• UTPD officer, former Knoxville cop, arrested for Peeping Tom, stalking December 5, 2024 3:27 pm The Knoxville News-Sentinel - Tennessee A University of Tennessee police officer was fired and arrested Dec. 4 after fleeing police in Georgia, who were seeking to arrest him on charges of Peeping Tom and stalking. Anthony Rizo turned himself in to UTPD on Wednesday morning at the department…
• PTI protest: Naqvi vows to not spare those behind cop’s death November 25, 2024 5:36 pm Dawn Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi on Monday vowed to not spare those behind a cop’s death earlier today at the hands of “miscreants” amid a PTI protest heading towards Islamabad. In a post on X earlier today, the Punjab police said that Muzaffargarh Police …
• Feds accuse Trenton police of pattern of unconstitutional brutality and stops November 21, 2024 9:42 pm New Jersey Monitor Trenton police routinely brutalize and pepper-spray people and stop and search pedestrians and drivers without legal justification, resulting in unlawful arrests, upending prosecutions, and undermining public safety, federal prosecutors announced Thursday …
• Will Gov. Hochul Fight Trump’s Plan for Mass Deportations? November 12, 2024 10:55 pm The City - New York Support local news today! Our nonprofit newsroom relies on readers like you to power investigations like these. Join the community that powers NYC’s independent local news. This story was published in partnership with New York Focus, an independent, …
• This Week-in-Review October 13th to October 19th October 23, 2024 11:22 pm Stabroek News In the court High Court denies application by Brutus to accompany wife to US for medical attention: Justice Gino Persaud last Friday refused an application by embattled Assistant Police Commissioner Calvin Brutus and his pregnant wife Adonika Aulder, made …
• The hardest case for mercy October 9, 2024 5:48 am Orlando Weekly - Florida In the summer of 1998, Brenda Woodard and Carolyn Deakins were two of the dozens of women selling sex on the streets of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It was a desperate scene down by the 17th Street Causeway, the first bridge into the city from its south. The …
• Not Liking Someone Doesn’t Mean They’re a Cop: On Bad-jacketing October 6, 2024 8:11 pm Indybay - California Anonymous submission to North Shore. Read the full text, including visuals, online as a PDF. Find the full text ready for printing as an imposed PDF. Since the commencement of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, millions around the world have taken to the streets in …
• Wesley Bell’s Swan Song: Felonies for Ferguson Protesters October 3, 2024 1:52 pm The Intercept St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell is slated to enter Congress in January. He will replace Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., after ousting her in a Democratic primary in August with help in the form of $17 million from the leading pro-Israel lobbying group, the …
• How New York’s Law and Order Mayor Ended Up Facing Prison September 27, 2024 1:27 pm The Daily Beast Four decades before he made history as New York’s first indicted mayor, Eric Adams became an officer with what was then known as the “Oh” police. The New York City Transit Police got that nickname because of the response they often received when they …
• The hardest case for mercy; Inside the effort to spare the Parkland school shooter September 23, 2024 8:07 am Florida Bulldog Nikolas Cruz inside the 1200 Building at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, 2018. The building was torn down in June. By Joe Sexton This article was first published by The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. …
• Carson City deputies make arrests for alleged DUI, domestic battery and weapon offenses September 16, 2024 10:19 pm Carson Now - Nevada A 35-year-old man was arrested Sunday for suspicion of misdemeanor DUI and basic speeding, according to a Carson City Sheriff's Office booking report. At around 9:17 p.m. a deputy was in the area of William and Roop streets and observed a SUV going …
• Philly-area brothers charged with attacking New York Times photographer during Jan. 6 Capitol riot September 13, 2024 12:51 am The Philadelphia Inquirer - Pennsylvania Two brothers from the Philadelphia suburbs have been charged with attacking a New York Times photographer, shoving her to the floor, and stealing her cameras during the Jan. 6, 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol. Federal agents arrested Philip Walker, 52, of …
• Tyre Nichols was brutally killed by five Black police officers. How did we get here? September 7, 2024 11:15 am The Guardian It wasn’t supposed to be this way for Emmitt Martin III. He graduated from Bethel University in McKenzie, Tennessee, with a degree in criminal justice and played tight end and fullback on the football team all four years. Friends of Martin said he was a …
• Migrants flooding NYC’s justice system -- making up '75% of arrests in Midtown' -- as ‘pathetic’ sanctuary city laws handcuff cops September 3, 2024 12:01 am New York Post Jefferson Maldenado, a 31-year-old migrant from Ecuador, has been arrested in New York City five times since arriving in the US earlier this year. His latest bust was for stealing a pair of pants and a beer from the Target near Herald Square. Asked why he …
• US students arrested in Gaza campus protests face academic and legal woes August 30, 2024 12:19 pm The Guardian Hundreds of US students returning to college this fall will be focused on navigating academic suspensions and criminal charges instead of choosing their classes and decorating dorm rooms, following last semester’s Gaza solidarity encampment protests that …