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News Articles: Series: America Reckons With Racial Injustice

Del. Stacey Plaskett, D-U.S. Virgin Islands, speaks Wednesday during former President Donald Trump's second impeachment trial. She argued that Trump was "singularly responsible" for the Jan. 6 attack at the U.S. Capitol and that he should be convicted and barred from holding public office again.

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  • Politics

Stacey Plaskett Is 1st Nonvoting House Delegate To Argue An Impeachment Trial

She touched on her unlikely journey from projects in Brooklyn, N.Y., to St. Croix, the U.S. Virgin Islands, "and now as an adult woman representing an island territory speaking to the U.S. Senate."

February 10, 2021
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By:
  • Brakkton Booker
Three Aurora Police Department officers were fired in connection with staged photos wherein one officer held another in an apparent carotid restraint hold. That move was used to subdue Elijah McClain before he died.

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  • Law

Former Aurora PD Officers Involved In Elijah McClain Photo Scandal Are Still Fired

The city's Civil Service Commission denied the appeals of three officers who were connected to photos that imitated chokeholds where the Black man's violent arrest led to his death.

February 10, 2021
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo
Los Angeles County prosecutors took District Attorney George Gascón to court and won a ruling Monday, putting on hold some of his criminal justice reforms that would reduce sentences for criminals.

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  • Law

Judge Blocks LA District Attorney's Reforms

A Los Angeles County judge ruled Monday that District Attorney George Gascón's policy to end sentencing enhancements in criminal cases violates California's three-strikes law.

February 09, 2021
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
Former Rochester, N.Y., Police Chief La'Ron Singletary, pictured at a press conference in September, was terminated from the department later that month. He is giving a deposition to members of the Rochester City Council investigating the death of Daniel Prude in police custody in March.

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  • National

Former Rochester, N.Y., Police Chief Testifies About Daniel Prude Case

La'Ron Singletary was fired from the Rochester Police Department in September. Prude, a Black man with a history of mental illness, died of asphyxiation after an encounter with officers in March.

February 05, 2021
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By:
  • Brakkton Booker
Adam Coy, a former Columbus Police officer, has been charged with murder.

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  • National

Bond Set At $3 Million For Fired Columbus Police Officer Who Killed Andre Hill

Former Officer Adam Coy pleaded not guilty to murder and other charges in the December killing of the unarmed Black man.

February 05, 2021
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By:
  • Gabe Rosenberg and
  • Nick Evans
A frame from a Rochester Police Department body-camera video shows a girl in handcuffs in the back of a police cruiser.

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  • National

Child Pepper-Sprayed By Rochester Police Was Denied Mental Health Help, Mother Says

"Her understanding is that the officer basically told her 'I can't do that. I can't call anyone else,' " family attorney Lorenzo Napolitano told NPR Thursday.

February 05, 2021
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By:
  • Brakkton Booker
A frame from a Rochester Police Department body-camera video shows a girl in handcuffs in the back of a police cruiser.

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  • National

Protests In Rochester As Lawmakers Move To Ban Use of Chemical Irritants On Minors

Demonstrators gathered near a Rochester, N.Y., police precinct — not far from where a 9-year-old girl was pepper-sprayed last week. An officer is suspended, two others are on administrative leave.

February 03, 2021
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By:
  • Brakkton Booker
A frame from a Rochester Police Department body-camera video shows a girl in handcuffs in the back of a police cruiser.

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  • National

Rochester Mayor Suspends Police Officers Who Pepper-Sprayed 9-Year-Old Girl

The incident renews scrutiny of the city and its police department following the death of Daniel Prude, a Black man who died of asphyxiation after an encounter with police in March.

February 01, 2021
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By:
  • Brakkton Booker
Newly elected Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is the Georgia's attorney general to give the Rayshard Brooks murder case to another prosecutor.

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  • Law

District Attorney In Atlanta Wants Off Rayshard Brooks Case

Fulton County D.A. Fani Willis says the actions of her predecessor have forced her to relinquish the police shooting case to another prosecutor.

January 29, 2021
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
Protesters and police face off in Wauwatosa, Wis., in October, after the district attorney refused to charge Officer Joseph Mensah in the shooting death of Alvin Cole early last year.

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  • Race

Officer Who Quit Wisconsin Police Job Under Pressure Joins Nearby Sheriff's Dept.

In announcing the hire of former Officer Joseph Mensah, Sheriff Eric Severson of Waukesha County acknowledged that "some have expressed concerns about Mr. Mensah's past uses of force."

January 28, 2021
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
Linda Thomas-Greenfield appears before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing on her nomination to be the United States ambassador to the United Nations, Wednesday.

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  • Politics

Biden's Pick For U.N. Ambassador Faces Tough Questioning For Past Remarks On China

Linda Thomas-Greenfield was grilled by members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about a speech she gave at a Chinese-backed institution on the campus of Savannah State University in 2019.

January 28, 2021
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By:
  • Brakkton Booker
A protester holds a sign reading "Defund the Police" outside Hennepin County Government Plaza during a demonstration against police brutality and racism on Aug. 24, 2020, in Minneapolis.

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  • Politics

Most U.S. Mayors Do Not Support Reallocating Police Resources, Survey Finds

Eighty percent of the mayors who responded say they believe their police budgets last year were "about right."

January 27, 2021
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By:
  • Juana Summers
Housing discrimination against communities of color also involves lenders, local zoning laws and other issues, says Andre Perry, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

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  • Race

Biden's Push Against Housing Discrimination Must Go Beyond HUD, Researcher Says

Andre Perry of Brookings says discrimination against communities of color also involves lenders, zoning laws and other issues in which the Department of Housing and Urban Development is less involved.

January 27, 2021
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By:
  • Rachel Martin and
  • Avie Schneider
Demonstrators raise their arms and chant, "Hands up, don't shoot," in August 2014 as they protest the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.

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  • Investigations

Fatal Police Shootings Of Unarmed Black People Reveal Troubling Patterns

Since 2015, police officers have fatally shot at least 135 unarmed Black people nationwide. The majority of officers were white, and for at least 15 of them, the shootings weren't their first or last.

January 26, 2021
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By:
  • Cheryl W. Thompson
Austin speaks last month in Wilmington, Del., after being formally nominated as defense secretary.

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  • Politics

Lloyd Austin Confirmed As Defense Secretary, Becomes 1st Black Pentagon Chief

Austin's near-unanimous confirmation came despite concerns raised on both sides of the aisle that he hadn't been out of uniform for the legally mandated minimum seven-year period.

January 22, 2021
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By:
  • Brakkton Booker
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