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"While this may help heal our grieving community, this rare moment of consequence for killings by police does not represent justice."

Through the first four months of 2021, there are less than a week’s worth of days in which police did not kill anyone, data shows.

Elite media would have us believe they are engaged in a serious reckoning with the racism of the US criminal justice system, that they care about over-incarceration and prison conditions. Yet elite media continues its silence about Mumia.

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There will be no fixing public trust – or the law enforcement system – without ending the legal doctrine known as qualified immunity that protects government employees from being taken to task for assaults on your constitutional rights.

Under Dr. Fowler’s leadership, the Maryland Office of the Medical Examiner has been complicit in creating false narratives about what kills Black people in police encounters.

The contest between Vance and Trump is about much more than a financial investigation. It’s a stress test of the American justice system.

District attorney associations have been a powerful force in the criminal legal system for decades. They have used their power and influence to increase the power of prosecutors, maintain and grow the carceral state, and shut down reform efforts.

"We're going to look back 50 years from now, and that electric chair and that lethal injection table, they're going be sitting in a museum," predicted Sen. Scott A. Surovell.