Days of Death: Contact With Police
Nov. 4, 2009
A 2009 calendar of daily media reports of US deaths during or following police contact, including:
• Monthly and year-to-date statistics
• For well-publicized cases, links to newsfeeds and links to photos or videos (when found)
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What Are The Lethal Risks of US Police Work?
May 22, 2009
If the risks of police work are "enormous" and "lethal", yet incidents like the Oakland and Pittsburgh killings are extraordinary, just how much and what type of lethal risk do police typically face?
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Fixed To Fail: The Emmett Till Murder Trial
Dec 24, 2008
When agents of change threaten the status quo of the power structure, sometimes to beat them you must appear to join them. And that's when the best defense can be a bogus defense in court - or jive justice.
Emmett Till's killers got away with murder. Like other crimes that took place in the South during the civil rights era, the Till murder case has been repackaged to fit the standard narrative of civil rights tourism. This presentation reexamines the case, exploring the role of the prosecution in maintaining Mississippi's brand of white supremacy.
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Fixed To Fail: The US Illusion of Justice
Dec 27, 2006
When agents of change threaten the status quo of the power structure, sometimes to beat them you must appear to join them. And that's when the best defense can be a bogus defense in court - or jive justice.
In the early years of the last century, it was almost inevitable that Carrie Buck would join the estimated 60,000 others in the US who were sterilized without consent. But the case of Carrie Buck established a precedent in deception: Carrie Buck's lawyer conspired with the opposing lawyer to guarantee that her challenge would fail, so that the sterilization law would be upheld by the highest court.
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Oct.31, 2009
I read the news today oh, boy.
About a man who was not so lucky , didn't make the grade.
Then came voices and images from the past...
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San Mateo Top Prosecutor Guilty of Stealth Racial Bias in Jury Selection
Oct.26, 2009
The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals slammed the door on California's attempt to maintain covert racial bias in jury selection: on October 23 it refused to reconsider its prior ruling that overturned a murder conviction obtained by San Mateo County Chief Deputy District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe. In an unusually sharp rebuke, the Court pointed to “overwhelming evidence indicating that the prosecutor [Wagstaffe]...acted with discriminatory intent when he struck M.C. [an African-American juror]”. It called Wagstaffe's justifications “pretexts”, “make-weight” and “logically implausible”.
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