by #CandaceMcDuffie in #TheRoot:

"[N]ational civil rights lawyer Harry Daniels who is representing Dallas’ family, said during a news conference Thursday that Dallas was actually an 'innocent bystander' in all of this. In addition, Daniels stated that several eyewitnesses had told his firm Dallas was 'nowhere near an alleged burglary.' He asserted that Dallas was around 200 yards away from the incident when police arrived."

https://www.theroot.com/family-members-of-the-ala-man-who-died-after-being-tas-1850614964

#JawanDallas #Mobile #Alabama #AL #taser #tased #police #PoliceViolence #PoliceBrutality #violence #death

by #CandaceMcDuffie in #TheRoot:

"[N]ational civil rights lawyer Harry Daniels who is representing Dallas’ family, said during a news conference Thursday that Dallas was actually an 'innocent bystander' in all of this. In addition, Daniels stated that several eyewitnesses had told his firm Dallas was 'nowhere near an alleged burglary.' He asserted that Dallas was around 200 yards away from the incident when police arrived."

https://www.theroot.com/family-members-of-the-ala-man-who-died-after-being-tas-1850614964

#JawanDallas #Mobile #Alabama #taser #tased #police #PoliceViolence #PoliceBrutality #violence #death

by #CandaceMcDuffie in #TheRoot:

"Last week, the Republican speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly, Robin Vos, implied that he’ll soon work to ban grants designated for minority undergraduate students. Vos took it upon himself to respond to a tweet asserting a scholarship program for Black, Indigenous, Hispanic and other minority students was equivalent to 'discrimination.'”

https://www.theroot.com/as-if-affirmative-action-wasnt-enough-now-republicans-1850607590

#Wisconsin #WI #StateAssembly #RobinVos #scholarships #Black #Indigenous #Hispanic