Voices
No, Trading Flesh for Prison Time Is Not "Bodily Autonomy"
A Massachusetts bill — sponsored by Democrats — proposes allowing incarcerated people to donate organs in exchange for shortened sentences.
Justice
The People vs. Cop City
Officer in Cop City Bodycam Footage Suggests Fellow Cop Was Shot by Friendly Fire
Footage from the aftermath of a deadly police raid on anti-Cop City protesters shows an Atlanta cop asking, “They shoot their own man?”
“An Irreversible Injustice”: Missouri Executes Leonard “Raheem” Taylor Despite Doubts Over His Guilt
Taylor, who insisted on his innocence, was killed by lethal injection while litigation was still pending.
The FBI Paid a Violent Felon to Infiltrate Denver's Racial Justice Movement
Mickey Windecker encouraged violence, accused activist leaders of being police cooperators, and tried to draw demonstrators into elaborate stings.
Will Missouri Execute an Innocent Man?
The state said Leonard “Raheem” Taylor fled after killing his girlfriend’s family. Witnesses said the victims were still alive days after he was gone.
Chicago Blocks Release of Inspector General Report Prompted by “Somebody” Podcast
A mother’s quest for answers after her son’s murder inspired an official inquiry, but the city is exercising information control.
Voices
Reproductive Rights Activists Charged Under Law Intended to Protect Abortion Clinics
The Justice Department is calling graffiti on anti-abortion centers a threat to “reproductive health services facilities.”
Memphis Police Chief Trained With Israel Security Forces
Chief Cerelyn Davis also led the first police department in the U.S. that swore off the exchanges.
The War on Immigrants
House GOP Spends First Hearing on the Border Casting Joe Biden as an International Crime Boss
The new Republican majority delivered few surprises and lots of paranoid rhetoric on Capitol Hill Wednesday.
In Memphis, Tyre Nichols Beating Carries Echoes of Atlanta REDDOG Unit
For 23 years, REDDOG officers regularly terrorized poor Black neighborhoods and Black residents of Atlanta.