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News Articles: Series: America Reckons With Racial Injustice

Robert Stewart was one of the first Black officers hired by LAPD. He was terminated in 1900 and on Tuesday the Los Angeles Police Commission unanimously voted to have him reinstated to retire with honor.

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One Of LAPD's 1st Black Officers Reinstated More Than 120 Years After His Firing

Robert Stewart was among the first Black officers hired by the LAPD. He spent 11 years on the force before he was unjustly terminated, according to the Los Angeles Police Commission.

February 25, 2021
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By:
  • Brakkton Booker
Signs calling for "Justice for Daniel Prude" were plastered to the exterior walls of City Hall in Rochester, N.Y., on Sept. 8, the seventh consecutive night of protests following the release of bodycam footage showing the March arrest that preceded his death.

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  • National

New York Grand Jury Votes Not To Indict Rochester Officers In Daniel Prude Case

"We concluded that there was sufficient evidence surrounding Mr. Prude's death to warrant presenting the case to a grand jury, and we presented the most comprehensive case possible," officials said.

February 23, 2021
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman and
  • Vanessa Romo
Crews attach straps in July to the statue of Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart in Richmond, Va. The statue was one of several that were removed by the city in 2020 following nationwide protests against systemic racism.

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  • National

Nearly 100 Confederate Monuments Removed In 2020, Report Says; More Than 700 Remain

An annual survey by the Southern Poverty Law Center found that 168 Confederate symbols, 94 of them monuments, came down across the country, virtually all in the aftermath of George Floyd's killing.

February 23, 2021
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
A mural depicting Ahmaud Arbery in July 2020 in Brunswick, Ga. Gregory McMichael, Travis McMichael and William "Roddie" Bryan are facing murder charges in connection with his death.

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  • Law

Mother Of Ahmaud Arbery Files Civil Lawsuit On Anniversary Of Son's Killing

The suit names Gregory and Travis McMichael, as well as William "Roddie" Bryan, who are all facing felony murder charges in connection with Arbery's death.

February 23, 2021
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By:
  • Brakkton Booker
Students chat while waiting for history class to start at Oak Ridge High School in September of 1955, when the once all-white high school was desegregated by order of the Atomic Energy Commission. The Tennessee city's school board is now formally including the story of its integration in its curriculum.

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  • Race

Oak Ridge, Tenn., Will Teach History Of Its Black Students Who Helped End Segregation

"Today almost no one in America knows about this landmark Civil Rights achievement," the city council said last year, in a proclamation honoring the Oak Ridge 85.

February 23, 2021
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
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  • National

Illinois Becomes 1st State To Eliminate Cash Bail

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed sweeping criminal justice legislation Monday that also requires police agencies to equip officers with body cameras and sets stricter rules for their use of force.

February 23, 2021
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By:
  • Cheryl Corley
Chicago Police officers watch demonstrators on Lake Shore Drive during a protest in honor of George Floyd, in June, in  downtown Chicago. A new report says police were unprepared and ill-equipped to handle the summer's protests.

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  • National

'Confusion' Hampered Chicago Police Response To Summer Protests, Watchdog Report Says

Chicago's inspector general said Thursday that the department showed "confusion and lack of coordination" in the face of the Black Lives Matter protests sparked by the death of George Floyd.

February 18, 2021
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By:
  • Scott Neuman
The Manhattan district attorney dropped a charge against Amy Cooper, above, for calling police on a Black man after he asked her to leash her dog in New York's Central Park.

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  • National

Amy Cooper, White Woman Who Called Police On Black Bird-Watcher, Has Charge Dismissed

Amy Cooper had been facing a charge of falsely reporting an incident to police, after she told them Christian Cooper, who is not related to her, threatened her in a New York City park. He did not.

February 16, 2021
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By:
  • Brakkton Booker
The Farmers Co-op Antiques Mall in Redmond, Ore., included, until recently, a vendor selling Nazi memorabilia and racist caricatures.

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  • Race

Symbols Of White Supremacy Confront Oregon Shoppers At Antiques Mall

Mass protests have brought attention to racism in systems, actions and beliefs. But as 15-year-old Lily Gallentine discovered, hate can also take shape in objects.

February 14, 2021
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By:
  • Emily Cureton
A video shows officers shoving an older man during a Black Lives Matter demonstration in June 2020 in Buffalo, N.Y.

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  • National

Grand Jury Clears Buffalo N.Y., Police Accused Of Assaulting Elderly Protester

Officers Aaron Torgalski and Robert McCabe were seen on cell phone video shoving Martin Gugino to the ground. He cracked his skull on the pavement and sustained a brain injury. The video went viral.

February 12, 2021
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By:
  • Brian Mann
Kyle Rittenhouse pleaded not guilty to all charges, including homicide, last month. He is accused of shooting three men — two of whom died and one of whom was seriously wounded — during protests in Kenosha, Wis., following the police shooting of Jacob Blake.

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  • National

Wisconsin Judge Denies New Arrest Warrant For Kyle Rittenhouse

Prosecutors asked the judge last week to issue a new warrant and raise Rittenhouse's bail by $200,000, arguing that he violated conditions of his release by not alerting them to his change of address.

February 11, 2021
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By:
  • Laurel Wamsley
Del. Stacey Plaskett, D-U.S. Virgin Islands, speaks Wednesday during former President Donald Trump's second impeachment trial. She argued that Trump was "singularly responsible" for the Jan. 6 attack at the U.S. Capitol and that he should be convicted and barred from holding public office again.

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  • Politics

Stacey Plaskett Is 1st Nonvoting House Delegate To Argue An Impeachment Trial

She touched on her unlikely journey from projects in Brooklyn, N.Y., to St. Croix, the U.S. Virgin Islands, "and now as an adult woman representing an island territory speaking to the U.S. Senate."

February 10, 2021
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By:
  • Brakkton Booker
Three Aurora Police Department officers were fired in connection with staged photos wherein one officer held another in an apparent carotid restraint hold. That move was used to subdue Elijah McClain before he died.

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  • Law

Former Aurora PD Officers Involved In Elijah McClain Photo Scandal Are Still Fired

The city's Civil Service Commission denied the appeals of three officers who were connected to photos that imitated chokeholds where the Black man's violent arrest led to his death.

February 10, 2021
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo
Los Angeles County prosecutors took District Attorney George Gascón to court and won a ruling Monday, putting on hold some of his criminal justice reforms that would reduce sentences for criminals.

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  • Law

Judge Blocks LA District Attorney's Reforms

A Los Angeles County judge ruled Monday that District Attorney George Gascón's policy to end sentencing enhancements in criminal cases violates California's three-strikes law.

February 09, 2021
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
Former Rochester, N.Y., Police Chief La'Ron Singletary, pictured at a press conference in September, was terminated from the department later that month. He is giving a deposition to members of the Rochester City Council investigating the death of Daniel Prude in police custody in March.

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  • National

Former Rochester, N.Y., Police Chief Testifies About Daniel Prude Case

La'Ron Singletary was fired from the Rochester Police Department in September. Prude, a Black man with a history of mental illness, died of asphyxiation after an encounter with officers in March.

February 05, 2021
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By:
  • Brakkton Booker
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