[NYPD\United States District Court]
Corey Stoughton: “This ruling is a missed opportunity to bring much-needed accountability for the NYPD’s enforcement of social distancing rules disproportionately against Black and Latinx New Yorkers.”
Photo: YouTube
Center for Constitutional Rights
NY Court Rules Against Investigation into NYPD Abuses, Discrimination
IMMIGRANT RIGHTS GROUPS TO SUPREME COURT: HALT “PUBLIC CHARGE” RULE DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC
[Immigration\”Public Charge Rule”]
Make The Road Litigation team: “As long as the Public Charge Rule remains in effect, immigrants and their families, including those who are U.S. citizens, will be deterred from seeking testing or treatment for COVID-19.”
Photo: Make The Road New York
NEW POLL FINDS MAJORITY OF AMERICANS SUPPORT DECRIMINALIZING SEX WORK
[Decriminalizing Sex Work]
Chinyere Ezie, Staff Attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights: “Laws criminalizing sex work criminalize poverty and thrust LGBTQIA people of color who face rampant employment discrimination into prisons and jails. This report begins a discussion about criminal justice reform that’s long overdue and charts a path forward for a more just future.”
Photo: Facebook
LOUISIANA RESIDENTS, CIVIL RIGHTS GROUPS AND LEGAL ORGANIZATIONS DENOUNCE PLANS TO BUILD CHEMICAL PLANT IN BLACK COMMUNITY
[Environmental Racism]
Sharon Lavigne, president of RISE St. James: “We continue to fight for our lives against these toxic industries, and now we are fighting for our ancestors too. They had no choice about where they lived, where they died, or where they were buried, but we are going to fight for the respect that their resting places, and our homes deserve.”
Photo: Facebook
CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS REPORT: RACIST POLICING POLICY CONTINUES IN THE NYPD
[Racial Policing\Center for Constitutional Rights]
The monitor further found serious flaws in the NYPD’s process for investigating racial profiling complaints against its officers, to the extent that complainants, witnesses and officers are often not even interviewed, leads are not followed up on, and investigators often fail to take note of prior profiling complaints against particular officers.
Photo: Facebook
FAMILIES OF NEW YORKERS KILLED BY POLICE TESTIFY TODAY TO REPEAL POLICE SECRECY LAW AT NYS SENATE
[New York News\Police\50a Law]
New York police have used 50-a to shield abusive officers and departments from public scrutiny by hiding outcomes of disciplinary trials, names of officers involved in police misconduct, body camera footage, and even basic data on use of force incidents. In fact, the public only saw the judge’s decision in the trial of Daniel Pantaleo (the officer responsible for Eric Garner’s killing) because it was leaked to the press.
Photo: Facebook
NATIVE SON RETURNS HOME TO PREMIER BOOK—DR. RON DANIELS LAUNCHES FIRST BOOK
[Literary News]
Dr. Ron Daniels: “This long-awaited Book is autobiographical, informational and aspirational. It’s three books in one that catalogs my near lifelong journey for justice and discusses the work of the Institute of the Black World 21st Century as my legacy project.”
Photo: IBW21
