Per Howard Witt of the Chicago Tribune: NEW ORLEANS Ruling in a racially explosive case that some forensic experts have described as police torture, a grand jury in the small Louisiana town of Winnfield indicted a white police officer Wednesday on charges of manslaughter and official malfeasance for repeatedly shocking...
We have talked quite a bit about the lethal nature of tasers here at Dallas South. Most recently the device also known as a “stun gun” was in the news due to the death of Baron “Scooter” Pikes. Pikes was shocked nine times with a Taser in the town of...
Some of you may remember that the issue of tasers aka stun guns has been a hot topic at Dallas South in the past. Last December, the Dallas Morning News reported the details of a Waxahachie man (African-American) who was tasered by police after calling 911 (in April of ’07)...
Washington, D.C. – (July 15, 2008) Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson will hold panel discussions on wrongful convictions and DNA exonerations this Saturday, July 19. The event will consist of two discussion panels, one featuring three Texas exonerees and one featuring Michigan Congressman John Conyers, state Senator Rodney Ellis, District Attorney...
Gina McCauley from What About Our Daughters is calling for action in the case of PFC Lavena Johnson. By all accounts PFC Johnson was murdered by her colleagues. Here’s a recap of the story by WAOD & Jezebel: (Johnson) enlisted in the Army right out of high school in 2003...
Folks are often trying to tell me how the court system usually gets it right and how there is really much racial disparity there these days. Well if justice were blind, wouldn’t Dallas County be freeing more white folks by way of DNA evidence? You know that chick (Justice) is...
Thursday, August 7th thru Saturday, August 9th, the National Council of Negro Women, Inc. (NCNW) Texas Sections will convene in Dallas, Texas, at the Hilton Garden Duncanville Hotel to conduct the business of the National Council of Negro Women, Inc. founded by Mary McLeod Bethune and chaired by President/Emeritus Dr....
Everything changed after this post. Everything changed after the Day of Blogging for Justice. It’s hard to believe, but when we blogged about the Jena Six at the end of August 2007, the national media still had not picked up on the story. On September 4th I wrote: One...
Today a visiting judge was supposed to decide whether or not Jena 6 Judge J.P. Mauffray had been biased in his treatment of the fiver remaining defendants. That judge has postponed the hearing until at least July. Howard Witt of the Chicago Tribune reports: Attorneys for the five remaining defendants...
From Color of Change.org – I will be updating you on the developments this Friday. Jena 6 Judge Put on Trial Lawyers Cite Clear Pattern of Bias, Demand Removal of Judge Mauffray Jena, LA–Citing powerful evidence of Judge J.P. Mauffray Jr.’s bias against them, five of the African-American youth known...
