The courts protected police abuses for years before George Floyd’s death. It’s time to rethink “qualified immunity.” A portrait of George Floyd on a lamppost outside the Minneapolis Police Department’s Third Precinct station on Wednesday. A Minneapolis police officer, who was filmed kneeling on George Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes until the life left …
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By filing a third-degree murder charge against Derek Chauvin that a judge is likely to dismiss, the county prosecutor in Minnesota is setting the stage for a miscarriage of justice. Demonstrators gather to protest the killing of George Floyd on May 30 in Minneapolis. Scott Olson/Getty Unless prosecutors in Minnesota file more serious charges against …
On Sunday, April 22, 1990, the voice Gideon Orkar, a major in the Nigerian army, welcomed Nigerians to the 7am news bulletin of Radio Nigeria. His mission: announcing the overthrow of Ibrahim Babangida as the military president. The highlight of his speech was the excision of Sokoto (today’s Sokoto, Kebbi and Zamfara states), Borno (Borno …
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The peak Inside the mind of Dr Jim Down, a leading intensive care consultant, on the night of the peak number of deaths from Covid-19 in hospitals. For a moment, the world is as it used to be – unconfined, uncurtailed, alive with human teeming: coronavirus-free. The early light of a mid-April morning is already …
The UK’s criminal justice system is under renewed scrutiny amid a wave of anti-racism protests. EachOther speaks to leading black lawyers to celebrate their work and hear their views on what reform is needed. Discrimination, Race Clockwise from top-left: Ife Thompson, Susie Labinjoh, Michael Etienne, Allison Munroe, Shina Animashaun, Ann Tayo, Abimbola Johnson, and Yvonne …
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