¿Ya pa’ que? For the third time in two years, the Miami-Dade Commission voted on Monday to institute and fund an Independent Civilian Panel to review police abuse and complaints. But it’s a much watered-down version with no real teeth to investigate anything. Too little and too late — because the panel becomes nothing more […]
The charges against four Florida International University students who were protesting the murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis Police — and the inequitable treatment of blacks by law enforcement and criminal courts everywhere — have been dropped by state prosecutors who did not find enough evidence to move forward. “The totality of […]
It’s about time. It took the murder of yet another black man at the hands of police, this time it was George Floyd in Minneapolis, to come to this. It took the tear gassing of peaceful protesters exercising their right to denounce the brutal killing. It took the arrest of passionate student demonstrators, sitting on […]
A coalition of Puerto Rican organizations across Florida have come together to denounce the murder of George Floyd and demand justice, drawing a connection between the systemic racism in U.S. law enforcement and the justice system to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria — during which 2,975 people on the island died and the president literally tossed […]