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Bradford family, civil rights groups sue Hoover PD, Marshall for release of case materials

Monday, EJ Bradford’s Parents, Bradford Family Attorney Ben Crump, the ACLU of Alabama, and Alabama NAACP announced that they have filed suit against Attorney General Steve Marshall (R) and Hoover Police Department for the release of video footage and fertinent documents about the Hoover Police shooting of Emantic “E.J.” Fitzgerald Bradford Jr., age 21, at … Continued
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March 12, 2019
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Alabama’s native son: E Pluribus Unum

All of us are called upon to lend our name for a job referral, political appointment or the endorsement of a candidate. Over time, my engagement for this kind of request is limited and almost extinct. I can count on two or three fingers those I would fall on the sword for because of their … Continued
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December 14, 2018

ACLU, NAACP make demands of authorities following Hoover police shooting

Thursday, the ACLU of Alabama and Alabama NAACP filed public records requests to police departments in Birmingham, Mobile, Montgomery, Hoover, Huntsville, and Saraland for their use-of-force policies, body camera policies, and racial bias training materials, following the Thanksgiving shooting of Emantic “E.J.” Fitzgerald Bradford Jr. and other incidents where excessive use of force has been … Continued
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December 13, 2018
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The prospective gassing of human beings in Alabama is an abomination

When, in October 2016, I wrote “[d]eath row inmates in Alabama are human guinea pigs” because the state’s capital punishment regime — specifically its barbaric, often bungled lethal injection protocol — is already so dark, so depraved, so outrageously cloaked in lies and officious secrecy, I never could have predicted the situation could get worse. But it … Continued
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December 3, 2018

ACLU joins appeal against emergency services provider for alleged discrimination against pregnant EMT

The American Civil Liberties Union is joining a federal court appeal on behalf of a former EMT who is suing for discrimination based on her pregnancy. Kimberlie Michelle Durham, the former EMT, is appealing the dismissal of her federal pregnancy discrimination lawsuit against Rural/Metro Corporation, a national provider of emergency and fire services in underserved … Continued
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November 30, 2018