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Today Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and Floyd family attorney Ben Crump were both guests on SiriusXM’s “The Joe Madison Show” to discuss yesterday’s verdict and the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. When asked by Madison what sentencing recommendation AG Ellison will make to the judge in the Derek Chauvin case, Ellison responded “I … Continued
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Nationwide protests have taken place since October 7 despite the disbanding of the controversial Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) police unit.
The demonstrators have been accused of attacking police stations and personnel.
The rallies which are mostly attended by young people have become avenues to vent against corruption and unemployment.
Rights groups say at least 15 people have been killed the demonstrations began in early October.
A single man just increased his family 5 times when he became a father of five after officially adopting an entire family of siblings. He did it to prevent them from being separated by the foster care system last week. According to multiple news outlets, Robert Carter adopted siblings Marionna, Makayla, Robert, Giovanni, and Kiontae. […]
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President Donald Trump will take action shortly on Chinese software companies that are feeding data directly to the Beijing government, posing a risk to US national security, secretary of state Mike Pompeo said.
Today Civil Rights Attorney Benjamin Crump who is representing the family of George Floyd was a guest on SiriusXM’s “The Joe Madison Show” and told Madison he believes a first-degree murder charge is still possible based on newly discovered evidence in the killing of George Floyd, a Minneapolis man.
The nation erupted in an array of organized demonstrations and a number violent protests after horrific images of Floyd – begging for his life – as a police officer Derrick Chauvin casually snuffed out his life, as three other officers looked on.
Civil rights attorney and advocate Benjamin Crump, who grabbed the national spotlight representing the families of Trayyvon Martin and Michael Brown, both young African American teenagers killed at the hands of official and quasi-official white law enforcement zealots.
We believe that they may have had animosity towards one another, and if that is ever discovered, then those charges, I believe, would and should be elevated to first-de ree murder, because it can be substantiated,” Crump told Madison.
Story credit: SiriusXM’s “The Joe Madison Show” (weekdays from 6-9am ET on SiriusXM’s Urban View channel 126)
To answer your question directly, Joe, about upgrading the charges to first degree murder based on newly discovered evidence.
It's a long way from Beaconsfield, Tasmania to Memphis, Tennessee, but Rod Toovey has loved every stage he's rocked in tribute to Elvis Presley.
Harris went from being the first Black woman to serve as California’s attorney general, to being the second Black woman to serve as a U.S. senator, to being the first Black person, the first South Asian American and the first woman to serve as vice president. Talk about smashing glass ceilings. For the first time […]
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Desiree Wallace said her son has faced bigotry before.
(NNPA) – The House Judiciary Committee has introduced the George Floyd Justice In Policing Act, the first-ever bold, comprehensive approach to hold police accountable, end racial profiling, change the law enforcement culture, empower communities, and build trust between law enforcement and minority communities by addressing systemic racism and bias.
“This is a real historic day here in the capital as last week we introduced the Justice in Policing Act, and today we amend the bill,” CBC Chair Karen Bass (D-Calif.)
“We call it the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, and I call it historic because this is the first time in many years that Congress has taken up a bill dealing with policing and I’m sure it is the first time that Congress has introduced such a bold transformative piece of legislation,” Bass stated.
The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act would establish a national standard for the operation of police departments and mandate data collection on police encounters.
A bill crafted by Republican South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, and an executive order issued by President Donald Trump, ask only for studies to be done on matters like no-knock warrants and chokehold bans, and have little bite, Bass and her CBC colleagues noted.
Protests against police violence in Nigeria entered the tenth day on Saturday with more than 10,000 people invading the streets of Lagos.
Mothers also joined the march in the city centre of Nigeria's economic capital.
\"I am here to come and protest against the killing of my children, against the killing of our children, against the killing of the youth,\" said Adepeju Dinyo.
\"We want a new Nigeria where righteousness, peace and justice reign, where our children can live, can go to school and work and live their lives in peace.\"
The rallies started last week after a video did the rounds online showing a man being beaten, apparently by police from the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) unit.
The police unit has killed and tortured many Nigerians, according to human rights groups.
Since the protests began, at least 10 people have been killed and hundreds injured, according to Amnesty International, which accuses the police of using excessive force against the demonstrators.
The #EndSARS campaign has attracted international support, including from supporters of Black Lives Matter in the U.S. and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey who retweeted posts from Nigerian demonstrators.
In response to the widespread demonstrations by young Nigerians, the government said it would disband the SARS unit last Sunday.
But the protesters are now calling on the government to be accountable, fight corruption and grant more freedoms.
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Cori Bush shared what her first day of work at Congress was like.
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I was talking to my son about the failure of Michael Jordan to speak out about issues that were important to Black people and human beings in general.
He also pointed out that Larry Bird, who once described Jordan as “god” in a basketball uniform, would have been more effective if he had spoken out on racism.
Not only did Bird refer to Jordan as god, but religious references were made about him throughout his shallow biopic “The Last Dance.”
Imagine that, Jordan as a god, who came to a people who longed for one so much that they worshiped other peoples’ gods and when they got one, all he did was play basketball, focus exclusively on himself, sell basketball shoes and peddle THE MAN’s goods and services.
But while he was winning in the 1980s and 90s the Black community took quite a few Ls: Rodney King was beaten to an inch of his life as police violence raged on; cheap crack cocaine and easy access to guns undermined entire Black communities; mass incarceration including, three-strike laws, mandatory sentencing laws, juveniles tried as adults guaranteed that large swaths of the Black community would be imprisoned; racist violence raged on as James Byrd was dragged to his death; redlining, gentrification, unemployment and underemployment, poverty and poor housing and discrimination continued to plague us.
