The Brevard County Sheriff s Office had a duty not to retain deputies like Santiago-Miranda, who has repeatedly shown that they were unfit for service, and expose citizens like Crooms and Pierce to such unfitness, the lawsuit alleges. The Brevard County Sheriff s Office breached that duty when it retained and placed Santiago-Miranda armed on the street of Brevard County, despite his criminal history and demonstrated violent tendencies over the course of more than a decade. and as recently as a few months before killing A.J. Crooms and Sincere Pierce.
The lawsuit alleges that Santiago-Miranda had an alarming and disqualifying criminal history of such a level that he should not have been a deputy.
Pride in Protest returns Mardi Gras to its radical roots
On March 6th, thousands will return to Oxford Street in protest Source: Fairfax.
March 2, 2021
Thousands of people are taking to the streets of Darlinghurst on the 6th of March for Pride in Protest’s Mardi Gras March.
Pride in Protest is a radical queer collective who campaign for a Mardi Gras with “No Cops, No Corporations and No Conservatives.” The group have organised a counter-protest to the official Mardi Gras Parade. It has several key demands including killing the religious freedoms bill, supporting the Black Lives Matter movement and decriminalising sex work.
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Part 3.8 of the Custodial Operations Policy and Procedures of
Corrective Services NSW (CSNSW) outlines how prison authorities deal with
transgender and intersex inmates. It aims to achieve best practice,
non-discrimination, safety and security.
The policy stipulates that a transgender person must be treated as the gender with which they identify at their time of
incarceration , addressed using their preferred pronouns and
assessed as to which facility is the most appropriate for them to
serve out their sentence.
More often than not, both trans women and men are placed in
I pay deep respect to the grieving families of those whose lives were unjustly cut short. In NSW, they include TJ Hickey, David Dungay, Rebecca Maher, Tane Chatfield, Eric Whittaker and Veronica Baxter.
Every day that has passed since the death in custody of my son, I have felt anguish and pain and a sense of injustice.
I have tried to make sense of the senseless loss of my son, and have struggled to have faith or any confidence in the subsequent, still ongoing, coronial and judicial oversight of his violent death.
I am determined to find people of goodwill and a measure of compassion who will listen to my story. My desire to bring about positive systemic changes to criminal justice systems grows with the passing days.