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Woman Linked to 1955 Emmett Till Murder Tells Historian Her Claims Were False

For six decades, she has been the silent woman linked to one of the most notorious crimes in the nation’s history, the lynching of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black boy, keeping her thoughts and memories to herself as millions of strangers idealized or vilified her. But all these years later, a historian says that the woman has broken her silence, and acknowledged that the most incendiary parts of the story she and others told about Emmett — claims that seem tame today but were more than enough to get a black person killed in Jim Crow-era Mississippi — were false.hThe…

Governor Cuomo Orders Investigation of Racial Bias in N.Y. State Prisons

  • December 6, 2016
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Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York announced on Monday that he was ordering an investigation into racial bias in the state prison system after an investigation by The New York Times found that black inmates were punished at significantly higher rates than whites, sent to solitary confinement more often and held there longer. The investigation analyzed nearly 60,000 disciplinary cases from 2015 and interviewed inmates at prisons around the state who said that guards often used racism to instill subservience. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/05/nyregion/governor-cuomo-orders-investigation-of-racial-bias-in-ny-state-prisons.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

Drei Polizisten vor Gericht – Prozess unterbrochen

  • November 27, 2016
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Drei Stadtpolizisten sollen den 43-jährigen Wilson A. vor sieben Jahren zusammengeschlagen und gewürgt haben. Nun fordert der Anwalt von Wilson A. ein Zurückweisen der Anklage – sie sei unvollständig und habe entscheidende Tatbestände unter den Teppich gekehrt. Sie stehen sich die Füsse im Eingangsbereich des Bezirksgerichts Zürich in den Bauch, die rund 50 Menschen, die gekommen sind, um den Prozess gegen drei Stadtpolizisten mitzuverfolgen. Die Verhandlung muss deswegen in einen grösseren Raum verlegt werden – mit zwanzigminütiger Verspätung beginnt sie.  Auf der Anklagebank sitzen die Polizisten Gerhard Z., Stefan B. und die Polizistin Nadine I., sie müssen sich wegen einfacher…

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