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There is no Ferguson effect: New data confirm the war on police is a right-wing myth
According to the FBI, 2015 was one of the safest years on record to be a police officer in the United States
http://www.salon.com/2016/05/27/the...k_a_noxious_right_wing_talking_point_partner/
According to the FBI, 2015 was one of the safest years on record to be a police officer in the United States
http://www.salon.com/2016/05/27/the...k_a_noxious_right_wing_talking_point_partner/
This Chilling New Netflix Documentary Will Connect America's Prison System to Slavery
13th comes from Selma director Ava DuVernay.
As true crime takes hold of the entertainment industry, the American criminal justice system has been examined through dozens of cases, angles, and programs ranging from narrative historical fiction to investigative journalism. Given the simmering racial tension in this country at the moment, these programs could have hardly come at a more pressing time in American history. It seems every week another major U.S. city is thrown into chaos following the unjust treatment of a person of color. It seems that the millions of people sitting behind bars are brushed aside for more discussions of Hillary Clinton's emails.
It's within this context that Netflix has released the trailer for 13th, a new documentary from Selma director Ava DuVernay that explores mass incarceration in the United States. The title comes from the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which states, "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States."...
www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/news/a48919/13th-documentary-trailer-netflix/
13th comes from Selma director Ava DuVernay.
As true crime takes hold of the entertainment industry, the American criminal justice system has been examined through dozens of cases, angles, and programs ranging from narrative historical fiction to investigative journalism. Given the simmering racial tension in this country at the moment, these programs could have hardly come at a more pressing time in American history. It seems every week another major U.S. city is thrown into chaos following the unjust treatment of a person of color. It seems that the millions of people sitting behind bars are brushed aside for more discussions of Hillary Clinton's emails.
It's within this context that Netflix has released the trailer for 13th, a new documentary from Selma director Ava DuVernay that explores mass incarceration in the United States. The title comes from the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which states, "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States."...
www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/news/a48919/13th-documentary-trailer-netflix/
Young black man asking, "Am I next". Well, given your propensity for violence, criminal behavior, and inability to follow simple instructions I'd say it's a good bet that you are next. As an example.
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Former Miss Teen USA: I was warned Trump didn't like black people
3 / 21
© Provided by The Hill Dem poll shows Trump hurting GOP down ballot
A former Miss Teen USA on Wednesday night tweeted she had been told before meeting Donald Trump that the GOP nominee didn't like black people.
Kamie Crawford, who was named Miss Teen USA 2010, said she first met the GOP nominee when she was 17.
"As the first WOC [woman of color]...To win the title in almost a decade - I was forewarned prior to meeting him that, 'Mr. Trump doesn't like black people," she tweeted Wednesday.
Crawford was reportedly told not to take it the wrong way if Trump wasn't "extremely welcoming" to her.
"If he is, then u just must be the 'type' of black he likes," she said she was told.
Crawford said she had been raised in the suburbs of Potomac, Md. She had personally experienced racism only once and it occurred outside of her hometown.
"Needless to say, I was totally caught off guard&super nervous bc this is supposed to be my boss I'm meeting - &he might not like me ALREADY?" she tweeted...
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...didnt-like-black-people/ar-AAiSlTb?li=BBnb7Kz
3 / 21
© Provided by The Hill Dem poll shows Trump hurting GOP down ballot
A former Miss Teen USA on Wednesday night tweeted she had been told before meeting Donald Trump that the GOP nominee didn't like black people.
Kamie Crawford, who was named Miss Teen USA 2010, said she first met the GOP nominee when she was 17.
"As the first WOC [woman of color]...To win the title in almost a decade - I was forewarned prior to meeting him that, 'Mr. Trump doesn't like black people," she tweeted Wednesday.
Crawford was reportedly told not to take it the wrong way if Trump wasn't "extremely welcoming" to her.
"If he is, then u just must be the 'type' of black he likes," she said she was told.
Crawford said she had been raised in the suburbs of Potomac, Md. She had personally experienced racism only once and it occurred outside of her hometown.
"Needless to say, I was totally caught off guard&super nervous bc this is supposed to be my boss I'm meeting - &he might not like me ALREADY?" she tweeted...
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...didnt-like-black-people/ar-AAiSlTb?li=BBnb7Kz
'It's a bloodbath': staff describe life inside America's most violent prison
7 / 24
The Guardian
Matthew Teague in Atmore, Alabama 10 hrs ago
© Provided by Guardian News Curt Stidham’s collection of shanks from Holman prison.
People inside call it the Slaughter Pen.
The horrors of Holman penitentiary in southern Alabama – the stabbings, riots, fires, abuse – have earned it a reputation as the most violent prison in the United States. As recently as Thursday a prisoner cut a guard’s eye during a fight.
Related: DoJ to investigate Alabama prisons in 'possibly unprecedented' move
Holman stands alone, isolated, surrounded by mile after mile of cotton fields. It’s also at the center of recent prisoner strikes across the country, and is the only place where correctional officers have gone on strike as well. On 6 October the US Department of Justice (DoJ) announced a state-wide investigation of Alabama’s prisons for men, targeting sex abuse, violence, and generally unsafe conditions for both prisoners and officers. Such a colossal investigation is, according to legal experts, unprecedented.
Current employees at the prison are afraid to discuss conditions inside. But Lt Curt Stidham agreed to meet and describe life at the prison for the Guardian. He left Holman this summer but Holman hasn’t left him; at a local pizza place he insisted on sitting in the corner, facing the doors. “I need to be able to see,” he said. “You’ll find all the officers are like this.”
He sketched a layout of the prison on a napkin, and described the hierarchy of officers. “There’s the warden at the top, then two captains, and then lieutenants,” he said. As a lieutenant his first order every day was to figure out how many of his shift officers had reported for duty. The prison is run by a staff as thin as the razor wire that surrounds the prison. Sometimes as few as nine guards would try to control the entire population, Stidham said.
And how big is the population?
“Nine-hundred fifty,” he said, in a facility built to house 637....
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime...cas-most-violent-prison/ar-AAjdU4j?li=BBnb7Kz
7 / 24
The Guardian
Matthew Teague in Atmore, Alabama 10 hrs ago
People inside call it the Slaughter Pen.
The horrors of Holman penitentiary in southern Alabama – the stabbings, riots, fires, abuse – have earned it a reputation as the most violent prison in the United States. As recently as Thursday a prisoner cut a guard’s eye during a fight.
Related: DoJ to investigate Alabama prisons in 'possibly unprecedented' move
Holman stands alone, isolated, surrounded by mile after mile of cotton fields. It’s also at the center of recent prisoner strikes across the country, and is the only place where correctional officers have gone on strike as well. On 6 October the US Department of Justice (DoJ) announced a state-wide investigation of Alabama’s prisons for men, targeting sex abuse, violence, and generally unsafe conditions for both prisoners and officers. Such a colossal investigation is, according to legal experts, unprecedented.
Current employees at the prison are afraid to discuss conditions inside. But Lt Curt Stidham agreed to meet and describe life at the prison for the Guardian. He left Holman this summer but Holman hasn’t left him; at a local pizza place he insisted on sitting in the corner, facing the doors. “I need to be able to see,” he said. “You’ll find all the officers are like this.”
He sketched a layout of the prison on a napkin, and described the hierarchy of officers. “There’s the warden at the top, then two captains, and then lieutenants,” he said. As a lieutenant his first order every day was to figure out how many of his shift officers had reported for duty. The prison is run by a staff as thin as the razor wire that surrounds the prison. Sometimes as few as nine guards would try to control the entire population, Stidham said.
And how big is the population?
“Nine-hundred fifty,” he said, in a facility built to house 637....
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime...cas-most-violent-prison/ar-AAjdU4j?li=BBnb7Kz
That an establishment democratic candidate could endure an extended FBI investigation, in which multiple federal laws were clearly and intentionally broken, and clear evidence of corruption and collusion between the FBI and State Department is mind boggling. Throw in evidence from WikiLeaks clearly linking the DNC to criminal efforts to incite violence at rallies, numerous examples of pay-to-play activities at the Clinton Foundation, blatant media collusion, etc, etc, and it's apparent we need a wholesale house cleaning in Washington DC and terd limits.
Why US inmates launched a nationwide strike
By Max Blau and Emanuella Grinberg, CNN
Updated 4:34 PM ET, Mon October 31, 2016
Attica Prison uprising, tens of thousands of US inmates launched a nationwide protest that continues today, according to advocates who helped organize the effort.
The inmates' grievances are as varied as the states they came from: Pennies for labor in South Carolina, racial discrimination in California, excessive force in Michigan. However, they share an overarching goal: End legalized slavery inside American correctional facilities.
Jails and prisons don't have to be luxurious -- or comfortable, for that matter -- but the US Supreme Court has said they're not supposed to be dangerous or dehumanizing. Yet the 13th Amendment of the US Constitution, while banning slavery, allows prisoners to work for little to no pay, in what inmate advocates say crosses the limits of human decency, amounting to modern-day servitude.
"I used to think, 'Nah, that ain't America, that's China and Cuba,' " South Carolina inmate Harold Sasa told CNN from a contraband phone. "It's a system that's neither benefiting us nor the citizens outside."...
http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/30/us/us-prisoner-strike/?iid=ob_homepage_deskrecommended_pool
By Max Blau and Emanuella Grinberg, CNN
Updated 4:34 PM ET, Mon October 31, 2016
Attica Prison uprising, tens of thousands of US inmates launched a nationwide protest that continues today, according to advocates who helped organize the effort.
The inmates' grievances are as varied as the states they came from: Pennies for labor in South Carolina, racial discrimination in California, excessive force in Michigan. However, they share an overarching goal: End legalized slavery inside American correctional facilities.
Jails and prisons don't have to be luxurious -- or comfortable, for that matter -- but the US Supreme Court has said they're not supposed to be dangerous or dehumanizing. Yet the 13th Amendment of the US Constitution, while banning slavery, allows prisoners to work for little to no pay, in what inmate advocates say crosses the limits of human decency, amounting to modern-day servitude.
"I used to think, 'Nah, that ain't America, that's China and Cuba,' " South Carolina inmate Harold Sasa told CNN from a contraband phone. "It's a system that's neither benefiting us nor the citizens outside."...
http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/30/us/us-prisoner-strike/?iid=ob_homepage_deskrecommended_pool
Sessions: The War On Drugs is a con so I can continue my racist policies