Bryan Stevenson is a lawyer who for the past 31 years has worked tirelessly toward freeing wrongfully convicted inmates from death row and reforming the criminal justice system in America. Just Mercy, a film about his tireless efforts, is now in playing in theaters. https://people.com/movies/all-about-just-mercys-bryan-stevenson-the-lawyer-who-has-overturned-135-death-row-convictions
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The Lawyer Who Has Overturned 135 Death Row Convictions
Saturday, January 18th, 2020Judge says US government can be sued for Flint water crisis
Saturday, January 18th, 2020The state of Michigan and the city of Flint are clearly guilty of racist targeting and poisoning. Hopefully, the trial will move forward and the evidence will be seen worldwide. https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/judge-us-government-sued-flint-water-crisis-62509213
Black men get longer prison sentences than white men for the same crime
Friday, January 10th, 2020A study proving that courts in the U.S. are racist: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/black-men-sentenced-time-white-men-crime-study/story
Wrongfully convicted Detroit man freed after 32 years
Tuesday, January 7th, 2020Once again, we have the police implicated in wrongful convictions. So, in addition to a large settlement from the City of Detroit, what we want to see is prosecution of the police involved in this crime. https://www.kron4.com/news/national/wrongfully-convicted-detroit-man-freed-after-32-years
City of Dallas dismissed from civil lawsuit over Botham Jean’s death After off-duty police officer Amber Guyger fatally shot a man in his apartment, his family said police practices were to blame
Sunday, December 29th, 2019The courts are protecting the City of Dallas from this lawsuit for consistently hiring racists as police officers. https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2019/12/26/city-of-dallas-dismissed-from-civil-lawsuit-over-botham-jeans-death
Not Just Tulsa: Five Other Race Massacres That Devastated Black America
Saturday, December 28th, 2019White terrorism of African-Americans has never stopped. https://www.bet.com/news/national/2019/12/17/not-just-tulsa–five-other-race-massacres-that-devastated-black.html
US taxpayers spent almost $1 billion incarcerating innocent black people
Thursday, December 26th, 2019Since 1989, 2,515 men and women have been exonerated after proving their innocence. In total, among all known exonerees, Americans have shelled out a staggering $4.12 billion to incarcerate innocent men and women since 1989. That’s largely money spent on trials, and the cost of housing inmates in prison. Black men make up the majority of those wrongfully convicted — approximately 49%. http://www.bleausa.org/us-taxpayers-spent-almost-1-billion-incarcerating-innocent-black-people
U.S. NEWS Fort Worth police officer who fatally shot Atatiana Jefferson indicted on murder charge
Friday, December 20th, 2019Every few hundred murders of African-Americans by police, the murderer is prosecuted. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fort-worth-police-officer-who-fatally-shot-atatiana-jefferson-indicted-n1105916
Lawyer Says Vallejo Man Killed By Off-Duty Richmond Officer Was Shot in Back of the Head
Wednesday, December 4th, 2019Yet one more racist (off-duty) police officer with a license to kill. https://www.kqed.org/news/11787705/lawyer-says-vallejo-man-killed-by-off-duty-richmond-officer-was-shot-in-back-of-the-head
RIP Fred Hampton: a Black Visionary Assassinated by the FBI
Wednesday, December 4th, 2019“Fifty years ago this week, a squad of Chicago police officers killed Black Panther leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark in a pre-dawn raid on the apartment where they were sleeping. In the decades since, a revealing body of evidence has emerged showing that Hampton was the victim of a political assassination, sanctioned at the highest levels of the U.S. government.”
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/12/04/rip-fred-hampton-a-black-visionary-assassinated-by-the-fbi