excerpts from Girl Fight by Aina Hunter in the Village Voice, 6/28/05
[On March 30, 2005, 5 or 6 black eighth-graders get into a fight with a group of white tenth-graders from St. Edmund’s Catholic high school on the basketball court in Marine Park, Brooklyn, outside the junior high. When the police come,] the white girls […]
excerpts from “Jury Deadlocks on Shooting by an Officer,” NYTimes, March 8, 2005, By Sabrina Tavernise
Having come within a single vote of conviction, a Manhattan jury declared yesterday that it was deadlocked and could not reach a verdict in the trial of Bryan A. Conroy, a police officer who killed Ousmane Zongo, an unarmed African […]
According to reports, another African American man in Cincinnati has died as a result of an altercation with police, an altercation which was videotaped. Nathaniel Jones, 41 years old, appears to have been beaten by six police officers during a struggle. Jones was being treated by medical personnel, and when he regained consciousness he […]
The “Clear Law Enforcement for Criminal Alien Removal Act of 2003″:http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c108:H.R.2671:, sponsored by Rep. Charlie Norwood (R-GA), would encourage local and state police departments to “investigate, apprehend, detain, or remove aliens” discovered in the course of their normal law enforcement duties. This encouragement would come in the form of the witholding of funds that would […]
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According to a CNN report:
An African-American man’s murder conviction has been thrown into doubt after the Supreme Court Tuesday found Texas prosecutors used “race bias” during jury selection.By an 8-1 margin, the justices ruled district attorneys in Dallas employed “race-based” challenges to exclude 10 of 11 African-Americans eligible to serve as jurors on the 1986 […]
CHICAGO, Jan. 9 — Illinois Gov. George Ryan will pardon four death row inmates Friday who had allegedly been beaten into confessing to crimes in the early 1980s that they did not commit, a source involved in the discussions confirmed tonight.
Over the past several months, Ryan (R) has been reviewing the state’s 159 death row […]
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YORK, Pa. — A ninth white juror was selected Wednesday for the murder trial of three white men charged with killing a black woman during race riots here in 1969. The panel remains all-white with three selections still to come.
One black prospective juror was discharged during Wednesday’s session. Like dozens of prospective white jurors questioned […]