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Amazon Admits Giving Ring Camera Footage to Police Without a Warrant or Consent In response to recent questions from Sen. Ed Markey, Amazon stated that it has provided police with user footage 11 times this year alone. 13 July 2022 Ring, Amazon's perennially controversial and police-friendly...

"The Worst Day of My Life" ICE Jail Nurse Sexually Assaulted Migrant Women, Complaint Letter Says 13 July 2020 The first full day that Maria, an asylum-seeker from Venezuela, was in the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, she was sent for a...

The Killing of a Portland Antifascist Activist Went Unsolved, Then Journalists Sued the City Three years after Sean Kealiher was killed, police arrested a suspect, just as The Intercept’s public records lawsuit neared a ruling. 16 August 2022 For months after her son’s killing, Laura Kealiher...

Chicago, Illinois, police officer Dillan "Quick Draw" Halley In the Aftermath of a Police Killing, the Justifications Begin Immediately After Chicago police killed Harith Augustus, the question was not: What happened? It was: How do we justify what happened? 13 August 2022 On the last day...

Inside D.C. police's sprawling network of surveillance From protesters to everyday residents, recently revealed documents provide a first-of-its-kind look into the invasive eye of Washington police. 18 June 2022 It was the early days of the Black Lives Matter movement. Protesters gathered in...

FBI provides Chicago police with fake online identities for "Social Media Exploration" team Internal documents also reveal that police can take over informants’ social media accounts and pose as them online. 20 May 2022 Brian Campbell couldn’t sleep. It was May 31, 2020, and demonstrations...

Faith Under Fire: A Pastor’s Legal Fight Against CBP Exposes a Reckless Surveillance Operation 6 March 2022 The sun was beginning to set as Kaji Dousa neared the border. It was two days into 2019, and the line she was about to cross separating San Diego and Tijuana was the site of a...

Rush to Judgment Is Texas Sending Melissa Lucio to Die for a Crime That Never Happened? 5 March 2022 Dr. Thomas Young is adamant: Melissa Lucio should not be put to death. “This would be a horrible, horrible tragedy if she ends up getting executed over this,” he said. “It’s just not right.”...

Episode 5: The Evidence In the wake of a scandal within the Houston police crime lab, Charles Raby’s lawyers discover that forensic evidence was hidden from the defense at trial. 1 March 2022 Foreign DNA is found under Edna Franklin’s fingernails. And in the wake of a scandal within the...

ICE settles with immigrant rights leader who sued over first amendment violations Ravi Ragbir said he was targeted for deportation because of protected speech criticizing ICE and the immigration enforcement regime. 24 February 2022 A NEW YORK CITY activist who alleged in court that he was...

Amazon Co-Owns Deportation Airline Implicated in Alleged Torture of Immigrants Activists are pressuring Amazon to divest from Omni Air International, a company at the center of ICE’s deportation machine. 17 February 2022 As Amazon's dominance of global e-commerce has grown, so has its vast...

Trapped in the Floods with Floodwaters Rising, Prisoners Wait for Help in Floating Feces 12 February 2022 [ The flooding in Dixie County, Florida, began in July, brought on by Tropical Storm Elsa. Then the rains kept falling. By August, the ground was saturated, and the semirural county was...

More kids and overwhelmingly black: New records show concerning trends in D.C. gang database The D.C. Council wants answers about the Metropolitan Police Department’s growing, secretive gang database 9 January 2022 The Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department’s gang database almost...

Video of 'Fight Night' at Rikers Jail Leads Judge to Find Cruel and Unusual Punishment A New York state judge found video of guards ceding control of Rikers to gang leaders more than enough evidence to order the release of a pretrial inmate. 28 December 2021 A New York state judge ordered a...

Augmenting the cops with armed soldiers: Texas National Guard Filmed Trespassing During Border Operations Soldiers patrolling border communities with assault rifles is the latest escalation in Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star. 17 December 2021 It was early November when Marianna...

Louisiana Policy Intended to Reform Solitary Confinement Still Leaves People In Indefinite Lockdown Officials say the total number of people in restrictive housing has gone down, but the state doesn’t keep enough data to substantiate that claim. 15 December 2021 Kermit Parker — also known as...

Startup Brinc Pitched Tasing Migrants From Drones, Video Reveals Well-funded Brinc positions its use of robots as nonviolent, but an early promo video undercuts this message. 13 December 2021 Brinc, a rising star among the many companies jockeying to sell drones to police, has a compelling...

Texas Troopers Opened Fire From a Helicopter In 2012 - Families Are Still Fighting To Hold Them Accountable A state police marksman unloaded 19 bullets into a speeding pickup, killing two men. Now depositions unearth startling new details about what happened. 30 November 2021 In the village...

Nashville DA's Office Seeks to Vacate Claude Garrett's 29-Year-Old Murder Conviction 24 November 2021 Almost 30 years after Claude Garrett was accused of setting a fire that killed his girlfriend, Lorie Lance, the district attorney’s office in Nashville, Tennessee, has concluded that there is...

Devonia Inman Sees His Conviction Overturned After 23 Years Behind Bars 29 November 2021 MORE THAN 20 YEARS after Devonia Inman was sentenced to life in prison for a murder he swears he did not commit, a judge in Georgia has overturned his conviction, writing that state misconduct and...