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Perry Jackson was being arrested for a misdemeanor warrant, and appeared to be compliant, when officers tased him

People are ignorant about history, whether willful or not. And governments often facilitate that ignorance.

A former Montgomery Police officer was convicted on Friday of manslaughter in the shooting death of an unarmed black man in 2016.  Aaron Cody Smith is facing a sentence of between 10 and 20 years for shooting and killing Greg Gunn just steps from the home Gunn shared with his mother. Prosecutors had charged Smith … Continued

Recently, the appalling spectacle of a black man condemned by a Georgia jury, a jury that included a racist bigot, reentered the American consciousness; if you haven’t heard about this travesty of justice (yet), or, if you’ve forgotten its details, all you need to know about the Keith Tharpe case is: a now-deceased juror who … Continued

I hate new years. Not because it’s another year. That’s going to happen, regardless of what we might want. The calendar days end, and the new calendar days begin. We can’t stop it. I hate new years because of the silly expectations. We expect the new year to encourage us to exercise more, or to … Continued

The trial of a Montgomery police officer indicted for the murder of an unarmed black man has been delayed again. On Wednesday, the Alabama Supreme Court issued a stay in the trial of officer A.C. Smith, which was set to begin on Monday, and ordered the trial judge and Montgomery’s District Attorney’s Office to respond … Continued