BREAKING: A veto-proof majority of Minneapolis City Council members will announce today their commitment to disbanding the city’s embattled police department following the killing of George Floyd.
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- BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the release of Chelsea Manning: "the court finds Ms. Manning's appearance before the Grand Jury is no longer needed, in light of which her detention no longer serves any coercive purpose." pic.x.com/8krTFahWZM
- 80% of voters support $2,000 stimulus checks. When West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin suggested he might not support them, radio ads and billboards went up against him, and he quickly changed course.
- BREAKING: Rep. Ayanna Pressley unveiled a sweeping resolution calling for state & local govt's to decrease prison populations by 80%, abolish cash bail, stop charging people fines/fees to fund local court systems, among a host of other proposals.
- Six black teens were kicked out of a mall in Chicago. A woman asked the security guard, “What did the boys do wrong?” The guard said, “I don’t even know if they did anything wrong.” Management said they were "loitering.” Now the mall says, “It was wrong.” chicago.suntimes.com/news/water-tow…
- NEWS: In March, Joe Prude called the police for help. His brother, Daniel, was acting strangely. Instead, video shows Rochester police handcuffing him, mocking him, and kneeling on his back while pushing his face into the ground until he stops breathing.
- Gov. Bill Haslam grants full clemency to Cyntoia Brown. She will be released from prison on August 7, 2019. "Imposing a life sentence on a juvenile ... is too harsh, especially in light of the extraordinary steps Ms. Brown has taken to rebuild her life."
- BREAKING: The Austin City Council voted to purchase a hotel to permanently house people experiencing chronic homelessness using money diverted away from the police budget
- “Even the prosecutor who tried Brandon’s case and a majority of the jurors who sentenced him to death now agree that execution would be a grave injustice.” @RepPressley urges Pres. Trump to commute Brandon Bernard’s sentence so he is not executed today.
- An El Paso cop pointed his gun at a group of children. A boy is pulled to the ground & handcuffed. The cop extends his nightstick & yells at the group to get back. Then the boy recording the video is handcuffed. Video: facebook.com/10002540214457… Article: elpasotimes.com/story/news/201…
00:00 - Postal officials have suspended mail delivery to Mar Vista Gardens, a public housing complex in LA. Residents must pick up mail at a facility more than a mile away. Organizers call it "a political attack on the Latino and African American community.”
- BREAKING: Jody Owens, Managing Attorney of the Southern Poverty Law Center, will become the next DA of Hinds County, Mississippi, after winning 52% of the vote tonight. appealpolitics.org/2019/jody-owen…
- BREAKING: Police have arrested a 23-year-old White man, Holden Matthews, in connection with the fires that destroyed three Black churches in Louisiana in the last two weeks. Matthews is the son of a St. Landry sheriff's deputy & has neo-Nazi ties.
- Replying to @theappealUPDATE: The Monroe County medical examiner has ruled Prude’s death a homicide due to complciations from "asphyxia in the setting of physical restraint."
