DeSantis flustered when pressed on guns, kicks out Black man who mentioned Jacksonville shooting - The man said that Florida's Republican governor had "enacted policies that hurt people like myself"
#DeSantis #JacksonvilleShooting #FloridaGovernor #GunPolicies #PressConference #RacialInjustice #Politics #News
#desantis #jacksonvilleshooting #floridagovernor #gunpolicies #pressconference #racialinjustice #politics #news
(29 Aug) - ‘It’s been festering in Florida’: DeSantis accused of hypocrisy over response to racist shooting https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/29/ron-desantis-accused-of-hypocrisy-over-racist-killings-response #DeSantisHypocrisy #FloridaRacistShooting #RacistKillingsResponse #FloridaGovernor #HypocriticalActions #RacialInjustice #Politics #News https://mastodon.sdf.org/@uspolitics/110974466304828629
#news #politics #racialinjustice #hypocriticalactions #floridagovernor #racistkillingsresponse #floridaracistshooting #desantishypocrisy
‘It’s been festering in Florida’: DeSantis accused of hypocrisy over response to racist shooting
#DeSantisHypocrisy #FloridaRacistShooting #RacistKillingsResponse #FloridaGovernor #HypocriticalActions #RacialInjustice #Politics #News
#desantishypocrisy #floridaracistshooting #racistkillingsresponse #floridagovernor #hypocriticalactions #racialinjustice #politics #news
He became the first Black mayor of a rural Alabama town. Then a white minority locked him out
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/26/black-mayor-alabama-town-locked-out
#AlabamaTown #BlackMayor #RacialInjustice #LockedOut #CivilRights #SmallTownPolitics #Politics #News
#alabamatown #blackmayor #racialinjustice #lockedout #civilrights #smalltownpolitics #politics #news
Prosecutor Asks to Drop Charges Against Truck Driver Mauled by Police Dog
#policebrutality #policedog #prosecutor #racialinjustice #truckdriver
https://usnewsper.com/2023/08/prosecutor-asks-to-drop-charges-against-truck-driver-mauled-by-police-dog/?feed_id=26627&_unique_id=64e43d7d44800
#policebrutality #policedog #prosecutor #racialinjustice #truckdriver
#NYC settles historic class action suit over racial injustice protests
#NewYorkCity will pay more than $13 million to more than 1,300 people who were arrested or beaten during #protests against #RacialInjustice in the summer of 2020.
The agreement comes after a civil rights lawsuit accused leaders of the city's #police department of violating protesters' #FirstAmendment rights with "coordinated" brutality and unlawful arrests.
#nyc #newyorkcity #protests #racialinjustice #police #firstamendment
Oklahoma superintendent falsely claims Tulsa massacre wasn’t about race
#OklahomaSuperintendent #TulsaMassacre #Race #FalseClaims #HistoricalDenial #RacialInjustice #Politics #News
#oklahomasuperintendent #TulsaMassacre #race #falseclaims #historicaldenial #racialinjustice #politics #news
Evidence now sealed
In trial of Black teen shot
Wrong house, wrong time, grief
#racialinjustice #wronghouseshooting #blacklivesmatter #haiku #poetry
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/01/us/ralph-yarl-shooter-court-case/index.html
#racialinjustice #wronghouseshooting #blacklivesmatter #haiku #poetry
NAACP issues travel advisory for Florida, saying the state is ‘openly hostile toward African Americans’ under Gov. DeSantis’ administration
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/21/us/naacp-florida-travel-advisory/index.html
#CNN #NAACPFloridaTravelAdvisory #DeSantisAdministration #AfricanAmericanDiscrimination #RacialInjustice #CivilRights #Politics #News
#cnn #naacpfloridatraveladvisory #desantisadministration #africanamericandiscrimination #racialinjustice #civilrights #politics #news
You were the World. The Flesh and the Devil were an embarrassing (yet true) representation of #US #RacialInjustice
#theworldthefleshandthedevil #racialinjustice #us #HarryBelafonte #rip
#RiseUpTennessee The expulsions are wrong in every way possible. #JustinPearson #JustinJones #Racism #Undemocratic #ShameOnTennessee #RacialInjustice
#riseuptennessee #justinpearson #justinjones #racism #undemocratic #shameontennessee #racialinjustice
We sent an open letter to the Mayor of Greater Manchester and GM Police with 14 other civil society groups, calling for the end to the discriminatory police practice of weaponising data and content. This leads to racialised prosecutions, as seen in the case of the #Manchester10.
#policing #surveillance #racialinjustice #precrime
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/end-racialised-surveillance/
#manchester10 #policing #surveillance #racialinjustice #precrime
(Even though the #Canadian #HumanRights #Tribunal upheld the complaint in 2016 and ordered the #CanadianGovernment to cease its #discriminatory conduct, it has since issued a further 23 #procedural & #NonCompliance orders in #response to the government's slow pace in addressing the #discrimination . The case is ongoing.)
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-years-child-welfare-reveals-inequities.amp
#KKKanada #RacialInjustice #SocialJustice #NativeChildren #Indigenous #Children #ChildWelfare #SystematicRacism #StolenKids #TruthBeforeReconciliation
#canadian #humanrights #tribunal #CanadianGovernment #discriminatory #procedural #noncompliance #response #discrimination #KKKanada #racialinjustice #socialjustice #nativechildren #indigenous #children #childwelfare #SystematicRacism #stolenkids #truthbeforereconciliation
#GlobalReckoning of #RacialInjustice prompted #Winnipeggers to call into question the impact of stationing #police in #schools .
Years ago, #LRSD admins hired an #AntiRacism #expert to #investigate its program with an #equity lens — meaning Ennab #prioritized the #experiences of families who identify as #Black , #Indigenous & #PeopleOfColour because of these communities’ 'disproportionately #NegativeExperiences with #policing due to #SystemicRacism
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2023/03/17/louis-riel-school-division-releases-2021-report-that-ended-its-police-program
#globalreckoning #racialinjustice #winnipeggers #police #schools #lrsd #antiracism #expert #investigate #equity #prioritized #experiences #black #indigenous #peopleOfColour #Negativeexperiences #policing #systemicracism #winnipeg #canada
Enlightening/sobering article by the Innocence Project about the racist U.S. legal system:
#innocenceproject #racialbias #racialdiscrimination #racialinjustice #jimcrow #deathrow #wrongfulconvictions #policemisconduct
#innocenceproject #racialbias #racialdiscrimination #racialinjustice #jimcrow #deathrow #wrongfulconvictions #policemisconduct
We live in a time of multiple overlapping crises: we have a #health emergency; we have a #housing emergency; we have an #inequality emergency; we have a #racialInjustice emergency; and we have a #climateEmergency, so we’re not going to get anywhere if we try to address them one at a time. We need responses that are truly intersectional." https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/feb/13/its-inequality-that-kills-naomi-klein-on-the-future-of-climate-justice?CMP=share_btn_tw
#health #housing #inequality #racialinjustice #climateemergency
Black Man Sentenced to Die By All-White Jury Was Executed in Texas https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v7v93x/texas-john-balentine-executed #Texas #RacialInjustice #AllWhiteJury #DeathPenalty
#texas #racialinjustice #allwhitejury #deathpenalty
The War on #CriticalRaceTheory
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-war-on-critical-race-theory/
Turning a blind eye to the realities of #racialinjustice, the highly orchestrated #rightwing attacks cast a body of scholarship about #race in the law as a great threat to American society.
#CRT #history #BHM
#criticalracetheory #racialinjustice #rightwing #race #crt #history #bhm
Judge: Gun-waving lawyer shouldn't get guns or money back