From San Francisco to Chicago to New Jersey suburbs, excessive force, racial profiling, secret detention center are in the news…--in “liberal” San Francisco, eyewitnesses contradict cops who killed homeless man despite new training and rules for de-escalation
--last November, sheriff’s deputies from another county brutally beat a suspect after high-speed chase to San Francsico, tried to bribe witnesses and cover up “worst beating since Rodney King”
--in second round of racist, homophobic texts between cops, prosecutions may result, but Chief Greg Suhr keeps his job
--SF Chronicle reports on new study of racial profiling in traffic stops
--Chronicle also reports that only 6% of San Franciscans are African-American, but half of arrests for unpaid traffic tickets are black
--Vice reports that Bloomfield Township, NJ shows that black and Latino drivers are disproportionately ticketed, and their fines pay costs of court operations, like Ferguson
--The Guardian continues exposing Chicago’s secret detention center at Homan Square, where at least two people have died in custody
--California Gov. Jerry Brown hopes to clean up the bad sentencing law he signed in 1977 with November ballot measure
--new California law requires police agencies to disclose surveillance tools and policies, some are complying, some aren’t, according to EFF report
--New York state senator proposes law to allow police to “textalyze” a cell phone if driver has been in an accident
--media blackout of Democracy Spring, as 400 protesters are arrested
--in Brazil, impeachment of President Rousseff is proceeding, Glenn Greenwald interviews her mentor, former president Lula de Silva
--in the craziest attack on Sanders to date, The Atlantic uses Russian Jews who hate communism to slam Bernie for calling himself a democratic socialist
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