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  Jackie Lacey is the first woman, and first African-American to serve as L.A. District Attorney. So for non-Angelenos it may have come as a surprise when Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Ayanna Pressley, Maxine Waters, Color of Change, Nanette Barragán, the California Democratic Party, the Los Angeles Democratic Party, the Working Families Party all endorsed her opponent George Gascón. Lacey is a so-called "tough on crime" DA who has been opposed to the reform movement sweeping D.A. offices around the country.

Do you ever get a call soliciting money for some kind of police benevolent association? I do-- frequently. I always hang up. It's different from the way I treat other phone solicitors who slip through my security net. For the others I either speak in a really low voice so they have to press their ear against the phone to hear me-- and then blow a high-decibel coast guard whistle into the phone-- or I let loose with the most incredibly ugly stream of curses imaginable, so ugly that I unsalted and frighten myself.

Last week, the NYC police union endorsed 3 contemptible candidates for Congress-- "ex"- Republican Michelle Caruso-Cabrera against AOC, anti-Choice/anti-LGBTQ fanatic Rubén Díaz, Sr. against Tomas Ramos and conservative IDC-er David Carlucci against Mondaire Jones. This exactly aligns the police union-- once again-- with the Wall Street banksters. The police union are a bunch of scumbags coast to coast.

BALTIMORE – As the Baltimore Police Department currently sits front and center in a massive corruption trial, talk of having individual police officers be fiscally responsible for the lawsuits against them is making the rounds. Two officers in Baltimore’s Gun Trace Task Force were found guilty earlier this week of racketeering and robbery in the federal trial. Six other officers pleaded guilty prior to trial and are currently awaiting sentencing.

A banner sits around the Frank Crowley Courts Building in Dallas, May 13, 2017. (AP/LM Otero)
There’s one new law on the books intended to help police in Texas that has gotten less attention than several others in a year when lawmakers touted their “back the blue” bills. It’s a measure that will allow counties to create pretrial diversion programs for first responders who commit crimes because of job-related mental health issues.

These leaked documents appear to offer an explanation.
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Quentin Tarantino is still refusing to back down from speaking out against police brutality.
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