On Monday, an Atlanta judge fined a 70-year-old homeowner $500 and gave him 1 year of probation for killing a young foreign exchange student who drove into his driveway by mistake. Rodrigo Diaz, 22, from Colombia, was killed on Jan. 26, 2013, while picking up friends for a skating party. His intende[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Injustice’
October 18th, 2014 - 12:36 pm § in Misc.
Another Black Youth, Coerced Confession, And Wrongful Imprisonment
David McCallum, 45, was exonerated last week after spending 28 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit. McCallum was just 16 when police coerced him and a friend (who died in prison in 2001) into signing cop-written confessions filled with falsehoods and inconsistencies. The charges [...]
Not thinking big enough
It’s been widely reported, in recent months, that black people, who were and continue to be disproportionately affected by anti-marijuana laws, are now being excluded from the growing legalized pot industry. In Seattle, this reality combined with growing frustrations over the gentrification of[...]