U.S. Justice Department Investigates Minneapolis Police Practices After George Floyd Murder (Photo: Andrew Harnik/Pool via REUTERS)
A federal civil rights inquiry by the U.S. Department of Justice was launched into the embattled police department in Minneapolis, a day after jurors convicted former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the killing of George Floyd, The Washington Post reported Thursday.
Attorney General Merrick Garland Wednesday said the wide-ranging investigation, known as a pattern-or-practice probe, will go beyond a separate federal criminal inquiry into Floyd s murder last year.
The DOJ will determine whether the Minneapolis Police Department engages in a pattern of unconstitutional policing using excessive force, including during protests, Garland said.
Baylor NAACP chapter president shares experience being on institution s Commission on Historic Campus Representations By Olivia Levada Waco
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WACO, Texas In the past, Baylor University students have voiced their concerns regarding the statue of founder Judge R.E.B. Baylor on campus. Knowing Baylor owned slaves, the students have called for the statue to be removed.
In June, the Commission on Historic Campus Representations was established as part of a resolution on racial healing and justice, acknowledging the university’s historical connections to both slavery and the Confederacy. The commission recently released this report.
While there are no plans to remove the Judge R.E.B. Baylor statue, there are changes to come. Baylor NAACP President Lexy Bogney believes the university is taking what seems to be a first step in the right direction. Although Bogney s time at Baylo
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Shifa Rahman, left, and Blaise, who declined to share a last name, hold signs at the base of the William Marsh Rice statue on the campus of Rice University in Houston. Rahman has spent an hour on campus nearly every day since August calling for the removal of the statue.
Students of color said they feel most of their calls to eliminate racist symbols from campuses have been ignored or intentionally mired in lengthy, bureaucratic processes intended to delay answers to difficult questions.
This summer, students called on the University of Texas at Austin to stop playing the “The Eyes of Texas,” the alma mater song that has historical minstrel show ties. Aggies petitioned Texas A&M University to take down the statue of Lawrence Sullivan “Sul” Ross, a former governor and Confederate general. Students at Rice University demanded removal of the monument of the school founder, William “Willy” Rice, a slave owner.
Students of color said they feel most of their calls to eliminate racist symbols from campuses have been ignored or intentionally mired in lengthy, bureaucratic processes intended to delay answers to difficult questions.