News From A Colorful Perspective
A veteran school resource officer in Farmington, N.M., has resigned after video footage caught him violently brutalizing and slamming an 11-year-old Black female student to the ground. The incident happened on Aug. 27 at Mesa View Middle School in New Mexico. The officer, Zachary Christensen, used excessive force on the…
The U.S. Census Bureau has been facing harsh criticism for its plans to try to accurately count people of color for the 2020 Census. The agency is planning internet and telephone questionnaires – which are pretty useless for people in rural areas without reliable communication infrastructure, such as tribal communities….
At least 12 motorcyclists purposefully left dark skid marks on a brand new $30,000 rainbow crosswalk in an Albuquerque, New Mexico community. But residents and politicians are not having it. The crosswalk was just revealed on Monday, in time for Gay Pride Month, and it was three times the cost…
Larry Mitchell Hopkins, a 69-year-old felon, appears in federal court today after he was arrested on Saturday for leading a group that has been kidnapping migrants at gunpoint on the southern border. Hopkins was arrested in Sunland Park, N.M., on charges of being a felon in possession of firearms and…
Attorneys are fighting for their client, a Honduran transgender migrant, to be released from inhumane conditions. The attorneys also say that Nicole Garcia Aguilar, 24, is being illegally held, oftentimes in solitary confinement, even though she was granted asylum in October 2018. She is currently being held at an immigration…
New Mexico, California, Philadelphia, Chicago. These are some of the city, county and state governments that have attempted to protect immigrants from local law enforcement working with immigration authorities by becoming “sanctuary” locations. These sanctuary cities are meant to protect immigrants from a myriad of injustices, including holding people in jail…
By Chris Hoenig Steve Verzwyvelt’s tenure as New Mexico Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gary King’s campaign manager lasted all of one day thanks to a history of sexist tweets. The Washington Free Beacon published a collection of Verzwyvelt’s tweets dating as far back as 2011, some of which included offensive and…
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