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I dug through over 10,000 pages of internal police records to report this story over the last 2 years.
US police departments quietly sell untold numbers of their used guns. Thousands of those guns have turned up at crime scenes.
cbsnews.com/police-selling-g…
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1. On Monday, a federal judge dropped an extraordinarily important decision.
It has received ZERO media attention.
In 1871, Congress passed the Ku Klux Klan Act, which allowed people to sue law enforcement officers who violated their Constitutional rights. It was intended to curb white supremacist violence against Black Americans.
In 1967, the Supreme Court flipped it on its head.
They "interpreted" the Ku Klux Klan Act to provide "qualified immunity" to law enforcement officers who violate Constitutional rights in "good faith." It has allowed law enforcement officers who abuse their power to escape accountability.
A federal judge, Carlton Reeves, just issued a powerful ruling urging the Supreme Court to acknowledge its mistake and repeal the doctrine of qualified immunity.
Follow along if interested.
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One of the guns in those pages was later recovered by police in Pittsburgh responding to a shotspotter call. We actually got the ATF trace report for that case showing law enforcement knew one of their old guns had wound up in criminal hands.
That's one example among thousands. This map based on data I pulled out of a heavily redacted sample of ATF trace data obtained by @reveal.
This is less than 3% of the full 52,000 police guns we know were traced to crime scenes. It shows over 800 PDs' guns showed up in crimes:
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Patrick Braxton was elected as Mayor in the majority Black town of Newbern, Alabama.
But the previous office holder, a white man, and the town’s council, also white, have refused to vacate the office.
For years. treadbylee.com/p/he-became-t…
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A Chicago cop got out of 44 tickets by saying over and over that his girlfriend stole his car.
And it worked.
All 44 times, his tickets were dismissed. 👇🧵
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Corporate bullying like this is why journalists need to forge ahead with holding the platforms accountable with bills like CJPA.
The platforms have skimmed from our work, bought off publishers with “charitable” grants, then act like bullies the moment they face accountability.
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Tonight at 6 @cbschicago:
DCFS didn't have a place to put a 9-year old after her psych stay at this hospital ended, so she remained here with an overage cost of $34,000.
DCFS reimbursed itself with money earmarked for the girl from her deceased father's social security benefits.
11/10 Twitter interaction
Aye yo big homie @GovPritzker. What’s the name of your relative who helped create the Chicago Public Library system? I can’t think of it off hand
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BuzzFeed exploding the watermelon hit 820,000 concurrent viewers in 2016 – at Brooklyn, NY
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NEW: The Nebraska teenager charged for allegedly taking abortion pills that her mom ordered has plead guilty to one felony and faces up to two years in prison. Her mom faces up to eight
jezebel.com/nebraska-teen-pl…
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North Carolina, and I DO NOT KNOW how this is legal, won't process wage theft claims older than a year old **even tho the statute of limitations is more than a year** labor.nc.gov/workplace-right…
ALT North Carolina DOL screenshot "Due to the high volume of complaints, our office will not accept complaints for wages due more than one year ago."
my data being described as "hot as hell" is a first for me lol
And this one, which has hot as hell data cbsnews.com/news/owed-employ…