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Excavation Work Complete At Oaklawn Cemetery s Mass Grave
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By: Amy Slanchik
TULSA, Oklahoma -
The initial groundwork at Rolling Oaks Memorial Gardens Cemetery wrapped up Tuesday in the search for mass graves from the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
It’s the first step in deciding whether any digging will happen at the south Tulsa cemetery.
Archaeologists spent Monday and part of Tuesday working at the cemetery, which was closed to the public during that time.
The City of Tulsa took pictures showing the Oklahoma Archeological Survey team doing its initial scanning work with the ground penetrating radar and other equipment.
The site was one of several locations listed in the 2001 state-commissioned report about the massacre as a potential location where victims could be.
All too often, police and other government agencies unleash invasive surveillance technologies on the streets of our communities, based on the unilateral and secret decisions of agency executives, after hearing from no one except corporate sales agents. This spy tech causes false arrests, disparately burdens BIPOC and immigrants, invades our privacy, and deters our free speech.
Many communities have found Community Control of Police Surveillance (CCOPS) laws to be an effective step on the path to systemic change. CCOPS laws empower the people of a community, through their legislators, to decide whether or not city agencies may acquire or use surveillance technology. Communities can say “no,” full stop. That will often be the best answer, given the threats posed by many of these technologies, such as face surveillance or predictive policing. If the community chooses to say “yes,” CCOPS laws require the adoption of use policies that secure civil rights and civil liberties, and
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A not-so-friendly four-legged friend briefly joined the New York City Police Department this year, shocking New Yorkers in viral videos when it was deployed in response to a hostage situation in the Bronx, and later in a public housing building in Manhattan.
The tool – a 70-pound robot made by the company Boston Dynamics that is capable of transmitting video, sound and two-way communication – sparked an outcry about an overreach in the kinds of police surveillance that New Yorkers are exposed to.(The device was first tested and deployed by the NYPD last year.) Police have touted the so-called “digidog” for its ability to evaluate the safety of a scene, such as a hostage situation, and make officers aware of any potential threats before going in themselves.Facing scrutiny of the tool, department officials have countered that robots have been used to assess dangerous situations and diffuse bombs for decades.
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