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DEA's Domestic Surveillance 'Mission Creep'

It appears that DEA agents have been employed on non-drug-related investigations for far longer than they were originally authorized.

Reason

New York City's ban on police chokeholds, diaphragm compression upheld by state's high court

New York’s highest court has upheld a New York City law that forbids police from using chokeholds or compressing a person’s diaphragm during an arrest

The Independent UK

Supreme court rejects Chauvin’s appeal of George Floyd murder conviction

Decision affirms Minneapolis ex-police officer’s conviction for second-degree murder and sentence of over 20 years in prison

The Guardian - US

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‘This film is needed now more than ever’: exploring the roots of US racism

Netflix documentary Stamped from the Beginning takes Ibram X Kendi’s best-selling book and explores the question ‘what’s wrong with Black people?’

The Guardian - US

Africa's flourishing art scene is a smash hit at Art X

It's Art Month in Nigeria — and a highlight is the celebration of art that is Art X, a wide-ranging fair that highlights "Black portraiture" as well as other creations from the continent.

WEKU

Police board votes to fire Chicago officer accused of dragging woman by the hair during 2020 unrest

The Chicago Police Board has voted to fire an officer accused of dragging a Black woman out of a car by her hair during unrest at a mall in 2020

The Independent UK

Chicago Police Board votes to fire cop who dragged woman by her hair and knelt on her neck

Officer David Laskus was found guilty of various violations including using excessive force and making a false report in the arrest of Mia Wright.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Mistrial: Austin Police Officer’s Landmark Murder Trial Gets No Resolution

A grand jury indicted Christopher Taylor after the 2020 shooting of Michael Ramos in Austin. From Criminal Justice reporter Michelle Pitcher.

Texas Observer

Why Do Cops Keep Lying?

Widespread perjury among police is well documented. Obfuscating has become a routine part of policing

The Walrus

Ex-officer Derek Chauvin makes another bid to overturn federal conviction in murder of George Floyd

Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin is making another attempt to overturn his federal civil rights conviction in the 2020 murder of George Floyd, saying new evidence shows that he didn’t cause Floyd’s death

The Independent UK

Former Merck CEO Ken Frazier on the responsibility of CEOs to uphold principles despite politics

Plus: Frazier talks about the shareholders who trusted his vision enough to support him in his early days at the helm.

Fortune

What to know about Elijah McClain's death and the cases against police and paramedics

A jury has acquitted another Denver-area police officer who put Elijah McClain in a neck hold before the Black man was injected with the powerful sedative ketamine by paramedics and died

The Independent UK

2nd police officer acquitted in death of Elijah McClain, who was put in a neck hold, given ketamine

A second Denver-area police officer has been acquitted in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain

The Independent UK

Antisemitism should be treated with same abhorrence as other racism – Dowden

The Deputy Prime Minister said he was ‘disappointed’ that the same ‘moral indignation’ shown during Black Lives Matter protests had not materialised.

The Independent UK

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The Independent UK

Minneapolis City Council approves site for new police station; old one burned during 2020 protest

The Minneapolis City Council and Mayor Jacob Frey have agreed on a new location for a police station to replace the one set on fire in 2020 response to the murder of George Floyd by a city police officer

The Guardian - UK

Is it right or wrong to post about conflict on social media?

Perhaps it’s not about judging the act of posting or not about the war between Hamas and Israel, but interrogating the intentions behind it, says Guardian columnist Hannah Jane Parkinson

The Independent UK

Officer charged in Elijah McClain's death says he feared for his life after disputed gun grab

A police officer charged with manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain has testified that he put the 23-year-old Black man in a neck hold because he feared for his life

The Independent UK

Elon Musk calls SNP leader Humza Yousaf a ‘blatant racist’

Scotland’s first minister fires back at tech mogul – urging him to tackle ‘unchecked racism’ on X

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The Independent UK

Musk responds ‘blatant racist’ to Yousaf speech made after George Floyd murder

The video to which the X owner replied was posted by a right-wing account.

WEKU

Va. police investigate after pig mask, 'I Can't Breathe' shirt found in police car

The three words "I Can't Breathe" refer to what some police brutality victims, like George Floyd, Eric Garner and Manuel Ellis, said before their untimely deaths at the hands of law enforcement.

The Independent UK

Ex-officer sentenced after assaulting man during unrest in Minneapolis after murder of George Floyd

A former Minneapolis police officer has been sentenced to 15 days in the county workhouse after pleading guilty to assaulting a Black man during the unrest that followed the murder of George Floyd by another officer in 2020

The Guardian - UK

‘I accomplished my dream. Why did I feel invisible?’: Leigh-Anne Pinnock on Little Mix, racism in pop, and going solo

With five chart-topping singles and three Brits, the singer realised her childhood dreams of pop stardom, but at a cost. She reflects on fame, loneliness, and why she no longer feels the need to compromise

The Independent UK

Questions linger after Connecticut police officers fatally shoot man in his bed

A fatal shooting by police in Wallingford, Connecticut, is raising questions about whether officers could have responded in another way

The Independent UK

What to know about Elijah McClain's death and the cases against police and paramedics

Opening statements are set to start in the trial of a third police officer charged in the death of a Black man who was confronted by police as he was walking home in suburban Denver in 2019

The Independent UK

California becomes first state to ban ‘excited delirium’ diagnosis after George Floyd’s death

Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill to stop authorities relying on a controversial diagnosis its critics say simply does not exist

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