He Defended Chauvin and Wouldn’t Call Floyd’s Death a Homicide. Now His...
The record of Dr. David Fowler, the former chief medical examiner of Maryland who drew widespread condemnation over his defense of Derek Chauvin, during which Fowler controversially declined to rule...
View ArticleThe Wave of GOP Anti-Protest Bills Will Criminalize Protesters—and Sabotage...
In the wake of the widespread George Floyd protests last year, Republican lawmakers across the country flooded the zone with so-called anti-riot bills. Last month, Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron...
View ArticleLimiting Qualified Immunity for Cops Was a Bipartisan Issue After George...
Second Lt. Caron Nazario was driving with temporary tags. The US Army Medical Corps officer had just purchased a new SUV and had a temporary cardboard plate taped to the inner rear window when two...
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How the George Floyd Uprising Was Framed for White Eyes
In 1963, Walter Gadsden, 15 years old, was attacked by a police dog during a protest on the streets of Birmingham, Alabama. The moment was captured by Bill Hudson of the Associated Press. His...
View ArticleCops Tased and Tackled Black Teenagers Just Because They Were Holding Vapes
This weekend, police officers enforcing a vaping ban violently arrested four Black teens in Ocean City, Maryland. Police tackled and repeatedly kneed a 19-year-old on Saturday while arresting him for...
View ArticleFew Cops We Found Using Force on George Floyd Protesters Are Known to Have...
This story was originally published by ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for the Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Last summer,...
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Behind the Video of Cops Brutalizing Kids for Vaping Is a History of Racial...
With a group of seven friends, Brian Anderson, 19, was celebrating senior week on the Ocean City, Maryland, boardwalk: a 3-mile stretch of novelty T-shirt shops, beachfront hotels, and fried food...
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How Long Until Citizen Gets Someone Killed?
When a drunk motorist plowed into a Minneapolis protest against police brutality earlier this month—striking and killing one protester—multimedia journalist David Vance opened the Citizen app on his...
View ArticleStop Blaming Crime Rates on Defunding the Police
Late last year, there was a robbery on my block. I was curious about how the police described the incident, because if early reports were to be believed, I was outside that evening while my neighbor’s...
View ArticleDarnella Frazier Filmed George Floyd’s Murder. The Minneapolis Police Just...
In March, Darnella Frazier, the teenager who filmed a Minneapolis police officer killing George Floyd, became emotional as she testified about how the experience affected her. “When I look at George...
View ArticleIllinois Becomes the First State to Block Cops From Lying to Kids
This week, Illinois became the first state in the nation to make it illegal for police officers to lie to children during interrogations. The new law signed this week by Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker...
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Minneapolis Just Gave Some Coronavirus Relief Money to the Police
Ever since a police officer murdered George Floyd last year, Minneapolis has been the epicenter of a national debate about how much money police departments should get from city budgets. In recent...
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“Defund the Police” Was a Rallying Cry in 2020. Minneapolis Is About to Vote...
Midday on a May weekend in Minneapolis, Robin Wonsley Worlobah, a 29-year-old Black organizer running for City Council, stood outside a bungalow on the southeast side of the city. When a 75-year-old...
View ArticleAs Hurricane Ida Strands Thousands, the Police Would Rather Focus on...
As Hurricane Ida pummeled Louisiana on Sunday, blowing roofs off buildings and knocking out power to the entire city of New Orleans, hundreds of thousands of people were left stranded without...
View ArticleMcKayla Maroney’s Powerful Testimony to Congress Shows the Uphill Battle...
Six years have passed since the FBI was first presented with evidence of Larry Nassar’s sexual abuse of young gymnasts during a July 2015 meeting between leaders of USA Gymnastics and the FBI’s...
View ArticleVaccine Protests Prove the Only Personal Liberties Cops Care About Are Their Own
One of the biggest threats to public safety right now is the people who are charged with protecting it. As both the virus and the culture wars over how to end the pandemic rage, law enforcement...
View ArticleHere’s Why the Bipartisan Police Reform Bill Was Always Going to Fail
This week, two of only three Black US senators threw in the towel on congressional police reform—a perfect embodiment of both government dysfunction and the lack of real commitment to systematically...
View ArticleCory Booker Reveals Where Things Went Wrong With Tim Scott on Police Reform
In an exclusive interview with Mother Jones, Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) confirmed what many people, myself included, believe to be true: The bipartisan police reform bill fell apart because Sen. Tim...
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The Crime-Tracking App Citizen Sent Staff to the Capitol Riot for Clicks—and...
At the end of January, a dozen senior staffers at a controversial “personal safety” startup met to tackle an urgent problem: how to turn a profit. Earlier that month, Citizen, whose flagship app offers...
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Who Keeps Us Safe?
Early on a Saturday morning in June 2015, a passerby notices a silver BMW stopped at an off-ramp in Oakland, California. The car’s turn signal is on, and the motor is running, but it doesn’t move as...
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