In Nov, a federal #jury found Brett Hankison, the #Louisville #police officer, #guilty of violating #BreonnaTaylor’s #CivilRights during a March 2020 police raid in which she was fatally shot, becoming the first officer directly involved in the case to be convicted on #criminal charges.
Hankison faced a maximum sentence of life in prison.

#law#BlackLivesMatter#BLM#WhiteSupremacy #racism

Breaking with standard protocol, the memo was not signed by any career prosecutors but by Robert J. Keenan, a senior counsel to the #CivilRights division who was not part of the original prosecution team, & Harmeet Dhillon, the head of the division who was appointed under the #Trump admin.

#BreonnaTaylor #law#BlackLivesMatter#BLM#WhiteSupremacy #racism

The #Trump#DOJ requested that a #Louisville police officer #convicted in connection with a raid that resulted in #BreonnaTaylor’s death serve just one day in prison. In an unusual sentencing memo, the #FederalGovernment suggested to a #judge that the #Biden admin should not have prosecuted the officer on #CivilRights charges.

#law#BlackLivesMatter#BLM#WhiteSupremacy #racism

WTAF?!?

#Trump#DOJ seeks ONE-DAY sentence for officer in raid that killed #BreonnaTaylor
In November, a federal jury found officer Brett Hankison #guilty of violating Taylor’s #CivilRights during a March 2020 #police raid in which she was fatally shot.
#law#BlackLivesMatter#BLM#WhiteSupremacy #racism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/07/17/doj-sentencing-police-officer-breonna-taylor/

The trauma of racial profiling is real, and its effects—especially on youth—are long-lasting.

We must ensure that public spaces remain safe and welcoming—not sites of fear or intimidation.

Your voice matters. Don’t let silence win. Know your rights, and protect the rights of those you serve.

Link to story: https://abc7ny.com/post/nyc-youth-baseball-coach-says-ice-agents-approached-members-team-practicing-riverside-park-manhattan/17060854/

#America#Democracy#Coach#Boston#Civilrights#History#Leaders#Immigrants #racism #fascism #sports #freedom #nyc

🙏🏽RIP to my friend TED LEWIS

Though we only knew each other online, he was a huge inspiration to me. From a USMC '66 veteran to a #photographer, he was a true champion for #community and public access media. I'll always remember his incredible love for life, even doing pushups in his 80s.

✨He truly embodied his own words: "Just a great guy with a sense of humor! And, a desire to achieve, and when and where possible help someone along the road of life!!!"

#Boston #civilrights #television

…Mark Rosenbaum, a lawyer with #PublicCounsel, said, “The order reflects there is something very wrong when the federal government goes to war against an American city & ignores the #Constitution.” He added, “Hopefully this ends the actions of the government rounding up carwash workers & other hardworking people like they were domestic terrorists.”

#law #immigration#DueProcess#CivilRights#Judiciary#Trump#ICE#Gestapo#AbuseOfPower #tyranny

The ruling remains in place for 10 days. A coalition of #CivilRights groups, led by the #ACLU of Southern California & the nonprofit #PublicCounsel, is seeking a more durable order, known as a preliminary #injunction.

…During a hearing Thurs, the judge was skeptical about the govt’s assertions that it was not violating people’s constitutional rights & that agents were stopping #immigrants based on “the totality of circumstances,”rather than relying on race.

#law #immigration#Trump#Gestapo

“What the federal government would have this Court believe — in the face of a mountain of evidence presented in this case — is that none of this is actually happening,” the judge wrote.

She said that “roving patrols” without reasonable suspicion violated the #FourthAmendment of the #Constitution & that denying access to lawyers violated the #FifthAmendment.

#law #immigration#DueProcess#CivilRights#Judiciary#Trump#Gestapo#AbuseOfPower #tyranny

In the orders, the judge, Maame E. Frimpong of the US District Court for the Central District of #California, directed agents to stop #RacialProfiling in the course of seeking out #immigrants, & mandated that the #federal government, which has deployed hundreds of agents from #ICE & other agencies in #LosAngeles County, ensure detainees have access to legal counsel.

#law#Constitution #immigration#DueProcess#CivilRights#Judiciary#Trump#Gestapo#AbuseOfPower #tyranny

Your voice matters—use it before they silence others. History reminds us: when one group is dehumanized, others are never far behind.

#Democracy #freedom #history#America#Equality#Humanity#Hate#Immigrants#Unity#Civilrights#Justice#Love

#DEI#FederalWorkers#USpol#BlackWomen#LGBTQIA#Women #discrimination #civilrights

Viola Desmond: Canadian Civil Rights Pioneer 🇨🇦

Viola Desmond, a Black Nova Scotian businesswoman, challenged racial segregation In 1946, Viola Desmond bravely challenged racial segregation by refusing to leave a whites-only section of a movie theatre. Her act, though resulting in arrest, galvanized Canada’s civil rights movement. In 2018, she was honored on the Canadian $10 bill! ✊ 🇨🇦 #Canada#ViolaDesmond#CivilRights#CanadianHistory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_Desmond

Hey everyone,

In regards to ICE agents masking:

The upper partials of someone’s speaking voice are like a fingerprint. If you want to save evidence for future prosecution, record their voices.

(I am a professional who works in music and sound.)

#politics #uspol #uspolitics#ICE #corruption #trump #rights#MaskedThugs#CivilRights #justice

As Heather Cox Richardson says, consider this, as you look at the Supreme Court's boosting of Trump's birthright citizenship position:

"The administration's announcement that it is terminating Temporary Protected Status for half a million Haitians, stripping them of their legal status, seems to echo the ancient laws saying only 'free white persons' can become citizens."

#Trump#SupremeCourt#BirthrightCitizenship #democracy #monarchy#CivilRights
/26

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-27-2025

"For a long time now, the Republicans on the Supreme Court have been trying to relitigate the 20th century and destroy all of the progress made during the Civil Rights era. But that is old news. That’s a pre-Dobbs analysis and frame. The Republicans on the court have won their battle against the 20th century and have moved on.

They’re now trying to relitigate the 19th century and destroy all of the progress made during the Reconstruction era."

#Trump#SupremeCourt#CivilRights
/25

"In its ruling on Friday, the court’s usual six monarchists granted Donald Trump’s request to reexamine various nationwide injunctions preventing Trump and Stephen Miller from implementing their plans to revoke birthright citizenship to any American who doesn’t happen to be white."

~ Elie Mystal

#Trump#SupremeCourt#BirthrightCitizenship #democracy #monarchy#CivilRights
/24

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/supreme-court-birthright-citizenship-ruling-trump-v-casa/

"Friday the Supreme Court weakened protections for – well all of us but especially immigrants and children of immigrants, and weakened the role of the judiciary, to fortify the powers of the executive branch and specifically the powers of the goblin cabal we call the Trump Administration."

~ Rebecca Solnit

#Trump#SupremeCourt#BirthrightCitizenship #democracy #monarchy#CivilRights
/23

https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/an-existential-threat-to-the-rule-of-law-some-notes-on-the-supreme-court-and-the-war-on-immigrants/?ref=meditations-in-an-emergency-newsletter