The Department of Justice (DOJ) has reached a settlement agreement with Arizona-based company Upper Crust Bakery over a suit involving immigration status discrimination. Upper Crust Bakery, which provides baked goods for companies like Starbucks, Cotsco and Kroger’s discriminated against certain employees by requiring them to provide specific immigration documents to…
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#ICan’tBreathe: Daniel Pantaleo, NYPD Officer Who Killed Eric Garner, Placed on Leave After Judge Recommends His Firing
Eric Garner was killed five years ago, but without real justice, his story remains in the spotlight. New York Police Department spokesman announced Aug. 2 that they had suspended Daniel Pantaleo, the white officer who killed Garner by using an illegal chokehold to restrain him as he yelled “I can’t…
Ohio Prison Guards Laughed While Greg Reinke Stabbed Black Inmates Saying, ‘Just Let Them Die’: Lawsuit
White supremacist gangs in prison continue to go unchecked. The two Black victims of a stabbing by a white supremacist at Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville have filed a lawsuit against officers and prison staff for allowing the attack to occur. Greg Reinke attacked several of his Black fellow…
‘Not Invisible Act’ Aims to Stop Violence Against Native American Women
The bipartisan bill calls for the DOJ to put resources toward the safety of millions of women. Eighty-four percent of indigenous women experience violence in their lifetime and, in some tribal communities, women are murdered at 10 times the national average. Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and…
Cruel and Unusual Punishment: Brooklyn Inmates Went Without Power, Heat for a Week
On Jan. 27, Metropolitan Detention Center in Sunset Park had an electrical fire and roughly 1,600 inmates were affected. The facility was basically running on backup electricity for over a week putting inmates in danger of freezing to death among other things. The inmates did not have access to hot…
Feds Take Years to File Civil Rights Charges Against Cops
The Washington Post examined over 50 civil rights cases against officers and found that charges were filed, on average, more than three years after the event. For example, Eric Garner, who had asthma, was killed in 2014 by NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo, who along with others tackled him to the…
Transgender People Reject Bigoted Policy, Say They #WontBeErased
#WontBeErased hashtag erupted hours after The New York Times reported the Trump administration’s push via a memo for a new legal definition of gender, which would essentially eradicate the estimated 1.4 million Americans who identify as a different gender than the one assigned assigned at birth. Mara Keisling, executive director…
Poor People Shouldn't Be Punished Because They Can't Afford Bail
If poor people can’t afford bail, they are confined to jail. This has been a common practice across the country. Almost a year ago to the day, the U.S. Department of Justice declared the current bail system is unconstitutional. The findings stemmed from a man in Georgia who spent six…
DOJ May Have Separated An American Father and Toddler In Immigration Debacle
The Department of Justice (DoJ) has screwed up. The agency told a federal judge Tuesday that it may have accidentally separated a father and toddler– who could both be US citizens- for as long as a year, in the process of enforcing the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” immigration policy. In a…
Federal Judge Rejects Trump's Plea to Detain Children Longer
U.S. District Court Judge Dolly Gee of California said in her decision Monday not to amend Flores v. Reno and that “absolutely nothing” prevents President Trump from reconsidering their current blanket policy of family detention. And, Tuesday is the deadline for the administration to reunite children under five with families…