Capitol Police Officer Charged With Covering Up January 6 Crimes
A 25-year veteran of the US Capitol Police faces obstruction of justice charges over allegations that he tried to cover up crimes related to the January 6 insurrection. Federal prosecutors say that the...
View ArticleWhat if Everything You Know About Murder Rates and Policing Is Wrong?
Homicides across the United States rose by an estimated 30 percent in 2020, the largest one-year increase on record, according to recently released data from the FBI. But don’t jump to conclusions...
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He Was a Board Member of the Oath Keepers. Now He’s Holding State-Approved...
On a glorious Saturday morning in October, about 75 people are gathered inside an airy warehouse on the wooded grounds of Foam Works, a local insulation company on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. The mostly...
View ArticleNoisy NYC Anti-Vaccine Protests Are Hiding a Simple Fact
Rowdy protests. Trash thrown at the mayor’s mansion. Suspensions following threats to state Senate staffers. With the pushback against New York City’s vaccine mandate among a relatively small number of...
View ArticleMinneapolis Votes to Keep Its Police Department
Nearly a year and a half after a white Minneapolis police officer murdered George Floyd, voters in the city have decided not to replace their police department with a new public safety agency that...
View ArticleKyle Rittenhouse Doesn’t Need to Be Acquitted to Win
Kyle Rittenhouse was 17 when he killed two Black Lives Matter protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and wounded another. Rittenhouse, who is now 18, has been charged as an adult with five felonies and is...
View ArticleWhite Fear Is Always the Best Defense
On February 23, 2020, Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old unarmed Black man, was out for a jog in Satilla Shores, Georgia, when he was chased by three armed white men in vehicles. They confronted him, and...
View ArticleNYC Has Seen an Increase in Reports of Anti-Asian Hate Crimes. Why Is the...
The number of hate crimes reported to the New York Police Department has roughly doubled to 503 incidents over the last year, driven largely by a rise in reported anti-Asian crime, city law enforcement...
View ArticleThis Coastal Town Needs Federal Aid for Climate Adaptation. It Will Get a...
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Surfside Beach, South Carolina is on the frontlines of climate change. Rising sea levels...
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A Look Back at 2021 in Photos, If You Can Bear It
Whatta year! Wooooo boy. Phew. Is it over yet? Here in the (very small, one-person) Mother Jones photo department, we naturally tend to think visually. As such, we rounded up a few dozen photos that...
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The Fight to Remember the Black Rebellion at Igbo Landing
Dunbar creek is a narrow, unassuming strip of water that winds through the north side of Georgia’s St. Simons Island. People drive over it daily via a narrow causeway, some on their way to the lavish...
View ArticleMinneapolis Police Killed Amir Locke in a No-Knock Raid—After the City...
Early on Wednesday morning, a Minneapolis police officer working as part of a SWAT team shot and killed Amir Locke using a raid tactic that the city and its Democratic mayor, Jacob Frey, had said they...
View ArticleJacob Frey Is a Liar
Last Friday Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey announced a moratorium on no-knock warrants, the tactic that led to officer Mark Hanneman shooting and killing Amir Locke. It was the second time Frey’s...
View ArticleBanning the Type of Police Raids That Killed Amir Locke Is Just a Start
Amir Locke, a 22-year-old aspiring musician, was sleeping on a couch in his cousin’s Minneapolis home on a Wednesday morning this month when SWAT officers entered without knocking. “Get on the ground!...
View ArticleMeet Abortion Bans’ New Best Friend—Your Phone
Let’s say you’re like me: a person between the ages of 18 and 50 with a uterus. Imagine you work a job that pays the bills, but you don’t have as much time off as you’d like, and working from home...
View ArticleThe Cops Who Watched George Floyd Die Are Testifying. Their Case Could Set an...
The three former Minneapolis police officers who were at the scene when Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd began testifying this week in a federal criminal trial, where they stand accused of violating...
View ArticleDerek Chauvin’s Colleagues Found Guilty of Violating George Floyd’s Civil Rights
Three former Minneapolis police officers were convicted on Thursday of federal charges that they violated George Floyd’s civil rights when they did not stop their colleague Derek Chauvin from murdering...
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Does Gail Ritchey Belong in Prison?
When the sheriff’s deputies came for Gail Ritchey on May 21, 2019, she was outside her home in a suburb of Cleveland. Gail, who was 49 at the time, was just getting ready for a regular day: In a red...
View ArticleMissouri Investigates Police Shooting of a Black Woman Who Reportedly Said...
Update, June 1: Body camera footage appears to show that Leonna Hale was armed when she was shot by the Kansas City police last Friday. After reviewing the footage, the Jackson County prosecutor today...
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The Alternative to Police That Is Proven to Reduce Violence
Roy Sapp had just gotten to work at the Rock Bar in San Francisco’s Bernal Heights neighborhood when he heard a man shouting outside. It was a Tuesday afternoon in October, and the man, middle-aged and...
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