Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Entry Text FERGUSON, Mo. — A forthcoming Justice Department report on the Ferguson Police Department has found that city officials engage in practices that discriminate against black residents and routinely violate the Constitution and federal law, according to officials familiar with the results of the investigation.The formal report, expected to be released Wednesday, largely blames…
Photo David H. Petraeus, left, in Denver in September. A plea deal would spare Mr. Petraeus a high-profile trial where embarrassing details about his affair would have been presented to the jury and made public. Credit Aaron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post, via Associated Press WASHINGTON — David H. Petraeus, the best-known military commander of his generation, has…
Entry Text Los Angeles police fatally shot a homeless man on Sunday in a disturbing encounter that was caught on video.According to the Los Angeles Times, the man, whom witnesses called “Africa,” was pronounced dead at the hospital. The incident, which occurred around noon in the city’s Skid Row area, was captured on video and…
Photo After Michael Brown’s shooting in Ferguson, Mo., many black residents protested what they called unfair treatment by the police. Credit Whitney Curtis for The New York Times WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has nearly completed a highly critical report accusing the police in Ferguson, Mo., of making discriminatory traffic stops of African-Americans that created…
cache hit 1091:single/related:5f5a4fba033d6dae2cb3fb65e384b257 empty Verizon is just so mad at the Federal Communications Commission today that a normal press release wouldn’t do.After all, Verizon issues so many press releases denouncing the FCC for trying to regulate telecommunications that today’s vote on net neutrality required a special one to make sure it would be remembered. So Verizon wrote…
Congressional Republicans are once again holding the government hostage against a budget authorization bill, this time threatening to put the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) into furlough. Maybe it’s time to call them on their bluff and go one step further: Let’s shut down the DHS. The agency is no longer relevant in an age where cyberterrorism may be the new normal,…
The results of a Guardian investigation into Richard Zuley’s detective work, particularly when visited on minority communities, suggest a continuum between Guantanamo interrogation rooms and Chicago police precincts Illustration: Nate Kitch for the Guardian A Chicago detective who led one of the most shocking acts of torture ever conducted at Guantánamo Bay was responsible for…
While US military and intelligence interrogation impacted people overseas, Homan Square – said to house military-style vehicles and even a cage – focuses on American citizens, most often poor, black and brown. ‘When you go in,’ Brian Jacob Church told the Guardian, ‘nobody knows what happened to you.’ Video: Phil Batta for the Guardian; editing:…
Nearly a month after the deadline to file death and injury compensation claims related to General Motors’ ignition recall, the number of fatalities tied to the long-ignored defect continues to increase. Reuters reports that the fund responsible for vetting the death and injury claims related to the recall has acknowledged 57 deaths and 94 injuries. Officials with…
Laura Poitras, a founding editor of The Intercept, won an Academy Award tonight for her documentary “Citizenfour,” an inside look at Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency whistleblower. “The disclosures that Edward Snowden revealed don’t only expose a threat to our privacy but to our democracy itself,” Poitras said in her acceptance speech. “Thank you…