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A protester unfurls a banner as Democratic presidential hopefuls participate in the second round of the second Democratic primary debate of the 2020 presidential campaign season hosted by CNN at the Fox Theatre in Detroit, Michigan, on July 31st, 2019.

News in Brief

A Prominent Leader of the Women’s March Was Among Those Removed From the Democratic Debate for Protesting

Detroit police removed a group of protesters that criticized Bill de Blasio's handling of police brutality as well as protesters from an immigrants' rights group.

Kelley Czajka

Gwen Carr, mother of the late Eric Garner, speaks to the press outside the U.S. attorney's office following a meeting with federal prosecutors on July 16th, 2019, in Brooklyn. The U.S. Department of Justice announced it will not bring federal charges against NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner.

The NYPD Officer Accused of Choking Eric Garner Will Not Be Charged With Civil Rights Violations

The decision came one day before the fifth anniversary of Garner's death and the deadline for the federal government to file charges against the officer.

Kelley Czajka

Social Justice

Filming Police Interactions Hasn’t Increased Accountability

As officer interactions with black and Hispanic Americans are increasingly captured on film, courts still aren't ruling against police.

Khushbu Shah

A growing memorial for Eric Garner near where he died after he was taken into police custody in Staten Island on July 22th, 2014, in New York City.

Social Justice

The Fight for Racial Justice Can’t Stop With Fixing a Broken Policing System

Author Paul Butler employs the chokehold—the maneuver as well as the metaphor—as, in his words, "a way of understanding how American inequality is imposed."

S. Melody Frierson