BY ACLU, Author at Black Star News

We’re joining TikTok to engage younger audiences in the fight for our civil rights and liberties.

2020 Election: ACLU Launches TikTok Account Aimed at Educating Younger Voters

Oct 16, 2020 by BY ACLU

[ACLU\Tik Tok]
ACLU: “Through this direct engagement, the ACLU TikTok account aims to provide young people interested in joining protests against police brutality and guarding their online privacy.”
Photo: Student Reporting Labs (SRL) Turning Out the Youth Vote series

“Today’s decision is a huge victory in the defense of voting rights. This case sought to limit safe, secure voter access in a hi

Federal Court Blocks Trump’s Efforts to Remove Ballot Boxes in Pennsylvania

Oct 12, 2020 by BY ACLU

[2020 Election]
Derrick Johnson: “In a time when we are faced with substantial obstacles, drop boxes make it possible and safe for voters to engage in their constitutional right. We are pleased with this outcome…”
Photo: Facebook

Trump’s Justice Department was a “driving force” behind the administration’s child family separation practice.

Trump’s Child Separation Immigration Policy is Child Abuse

Oct 7, 2020 by BY ACLU

[Trump’s Child Separation]
Lee Gelernt: “This latest report confirms once again that this was easily one of the cruelest immigration practices in the history of this country. This was child abuse, plain and simple.”
Photo: YouTube

It’s disturbing to see they made preparations to tear gas or kill people who were mourning another death at the hands of police.

George Floyd: Border Patrol Agents Were Authorized to Use Deadly Force at Burial

Oct 2, 2020 by BY ACLU

[George Floyd’s Burial Service]
ACLU: “These documents paint a chilling picture of federal agents unleashed in our cities. CBP is a rogue agency…Now they are being deployed as a federal police force to cities across the country in collaboration with local police.”
Photo: YouTube

Any other course threatens the legitimacy of the court and risks abdication of the Senate’s constitutional obligation to provide

ACLU: Supreme Court Nomination Should be After Next Presidential Inauguration

Sep 26, 2020 by BY ACLU

[ACU\Supreme Court Nomination]
ACLU: “We are still mourning the passing of the ACLU’s most illustrious alumna, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.”
Photo: YouTube

Modern policing and our criminal legal system are rotten to the core.

Breonna Taylor decision: policing “rotten to the core”

Sep 23, 2020 by BY ACLU

[Breonna Taylor]
ACLU: “Today’s decision is not accountability and not close to justice. Justice would have been LMPD officers never shooting Breonna Taylor in the first place.”
Photo: YouTube

“ICE continues to prove that it cannot be trusted to protect the health, safety, and dignity of detained people

COVID-19 Ravaging Detention Facilities, 2020 Deadliest Year Since 2005

Sep 22, 2020 by BY ACLU

[ICE\COVID-19]
ACLU: “Since the pandemic began, the ACLU has filed more than 50 lawsuits against ICE detention facilities in states around the country. More than 525 people have been released due to these lawsuits.”
Photo: YouTube

ACLU Dedicates Full-Page NYT, WaPo Ads to Justice Ginsburg

Sep 21, 2020 by BY ACLU

[Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg]
ACLU: “The full-page ad will run in print and online across the country all week, appearing at first in print in The Washington Post Sunday and The New York Times Monday. The page celebrates Justice Ginsburg’s life work.”
Photo: ACLU

ACLU: Deon Kay Killing is Example of “Racism Endemic in Policing”

Sep 4, 2020 by BY ACLU

[ACLU\Police Killing of Deon Kay]
ACLU: “The officer made no attempt to de-escalate, there was no warning or directive given to Kay to drop a weapon — a weapon that Kay appears to have thrown in the air and which was recovered almost 100 feet from his body.”
Photo: Twitter

NYCLU Condemns Rochester Police Asphyxiation Murder of Daniel Prude

Sep 3, 2020 by BY ACLU

[Daniel Prude]
NYCLU: “It has been over four months since the attorney general’s office opened their investigation, but it does not take that long to see that the officers involved abused their authority to end Mr. Prude’s life.”
Photo: Twitter

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