This made the business of arresting black people very lucrative, thus hundreds of white men were hired by these states as police officers.
Their primary responsibility being to search out and arrest black peoples who were in violation of โBlack Codesโ
Having 100 tabs you have to look at before you know youre safe to close them is the worst curse. I would rather have a hundred million in student loan debt
@frantheslay @masen1123@Trey_Explainer Yeah or texan. It makes no sense that an entire universe would be defined by texan culture so Fry assumes there are infinite specific universes that have really specific random premises like that. But alas, it is actually just the only parallel dimension and its Texan
The DOJ is saying that the Minneapolis Police Department has a pattern of excessive force, racial bias, suppression of free speech, and discrimination against people with disabilities.
These civil rights abuses laid the groundwork for the murder of George Floyd.
BREAKING: Chemical companies such as Dupont and 3M have been lying to the public for decades about "forever chemicals" in drinking water that have poisoned an estimated 200 million people.
Will these companies and their CEOs ever be indicted? @LeverNews
https://t.co/dQFPy8YoNm
NEW: According to new research, poverty is the fourth-greatest cause of death in the United States, associated with 183,000 deaths in 2019 among people 15 years and older.
People should not live in or die from poverty in the richest nation ever to exist.
In 2021, a distinct whale species was identified: the Gulf of Mexico whale. It's already near extinction. 100 scientists have warned that it needs better protections or we could see the first human-caused extinction of a whale species in history. https://t.co/RYwhUq49Q7
The debt deal protects tax cuts for the rich, gives defense contractors more cash, expedites a fossil gas pipeline during the climate crisis - and makes it harder for starving people to get food stamps.
And Biden is now celebrating it as a "big win." https://t.co/UmtUETp3sO
In Guam, the U.S. military wants to burn/detonate up to 35,000 pounds of its leftover munitions each year on ancestral lands that it seized after WWII. With the help of Earthjustice, a group called โPrutehi Litekyan: Save Ritidianโ is fighting back. https://t.co/YATfgpjORl
BREAKING: Police in the US state of Georgia have arrested three people for the supposed "crime" of raising bail funds to get peaceful "Cop City" protestors out of jail prior to trial.
This is full-on attack on the US Constitution.