BY Staff | New Orleans, LA | 6/13/20
The Orleans Parish Prison Reform Coalition led a rally outside City Hall during the city council’s Jun. 11 meeting. The week before, the New Orleans Police Department fired tear gas and rubber stinger rounds at protesters on a bridge 200 feet above the Mississippi River. In response, the rally demanded that the city defund and demilitarize the police.
Revelations in Isak Aden murder case show police wrongdoing, family calls for independent prosecutor
BY Jess Sundin | Minneapolis, MN | 9/06/19
A September 5 press conference at the offices of CAIR MN made public new information in the police murder of 23-year-old Isak Aden.
BY Jess Sundin | Eagan, MN | 7/18/19
Some 200 community members gathered here July 16 to demand justice for Isak Aden, a Somali man who was killed by police in this Saint Paul suburb on July 2.
BY Loretta VanPelt | Minneapolis, MN | 7/18/17
Over 150 people gathered in Minneapolis’ Fulton neighborhood, July 16, to remember Justine Damond, who was murdered by Minneapolis police Saturday night.
BY Sol Marquez | Los Angeles, CA | 5/23/17
On the blistering hot Saturday morning, May 20, a group of angry activists chanted “Jail killer cops!” and “When Chicanos are under attack, what do we do? Stand up, fight back!”
BY Fernando Figueroa | Jacksonville, Fl | 7/31/16
There is no U.S. state attorney that has caused more injustice, tried more juveniles as adults, and spat in the face of more Black people than Florida State Attorney Angela Corey.
