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22 April 20
Juan González: "Make No Mistake: This Country Is Edging Closer to Neo-Fascist Authoritarianism"
Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "If hundreds of African Americans or Latinos showed up in cities around the country brandishing automatic weapons, what would be the response of the country to this? Why is this being almost accepted and normalized now as a method of protest?"
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Elizabeth Warren and Sherrod Brown speaking during a Senate Banking Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in January 2015. (photo: Andrew Harnik/WP/Getty Images)
Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "If hundreds of African Americans or Latinos showed up in cities around the country brandishing automatic weapons, what would be the response of the country to this? Why is this being almost accepted and normalized now as a method of protest?"
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Elizabeth Warren and Sherrod Brown speaking during a Senate Banking Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in January 2015. (photo: Andrew Harnik/WP/Getty Images)
Elizabeth Warren and Sherrod Brown's Plan to Protect Consumers From Financial Ruin
Emily Stewart, Vox
Stewart writes: "Millions of Americans were already in dire straits before the global pandemic hit, and millions more have been sent into a spiral."
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Miguel Diaz, who works for the City of Hialeah, hands out unemployment applications to people in their vehicles in front of the John F. Kennedy Library on April 8, 2020 in Hialeah, Florida. (photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Emily Stewart, Vox
Stewart writes: "Millions of Americans were already in dire straits before the global pandemic hit, and millions more have been sent into a spiral."
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Miguel Diaz, who works for the City of Hialeah, hands out unemployment applications to people in their vehicles in front of the John F. Kennedy Library on April 8, 2020 in Hialeah, Florida. (photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
COVID-19 Is Exposing the United States' Ragged, Shameful Safety Net
Colin Gordon and Sarah K. Bruch, Jacobin
Excerpt: "A decent welfare state should provide the basics of life so everyone can flourish. The United States' patchwork of poorly funded safety net programs is doing the opposite - dropping people through a trapdoor as the pandemic ravages the economy."
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Colin Gordon and Sarah K. Bruch, Jacobin
Excerpt: "A decent welfare state should provide the basics of life so everyone can flourish. The United States' patchwork of poorly funded safety net programs is doing the opposite - dropping people through a trapdoor as the pandemic ravages the economy."
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Steven Taylor had three children, including an 11-year-old, and he leaves behind three siblings. (photo: Lee Merritt)
'Don't Shoot Him No More!' California Police Face Backlash Over Killing of Man in Walmart
Sam Levin, Guardian UK
Levin writes: "The police shooting of a 33-year-old man in a California Walmart over the weekend has led to intense backlash from civil rights activists, calls for protests and a Facebook video from the local police chief to 'dispel some rumors' about the incident."
Sam Levin, Guardian UK
Levin writes: "The police shooting of a 33-year-old man in a California Walmart over the weekend has led to intense backlash from civil rights activists, calls for protests and a Facebook video from the local police chief to 'dispel some rumors' about the incident."
Steven Taylor was experiencing mental health crisis when he wielded a baseball bat inside San Leandro store, family lawyer says
he police shooting of a 33-year-old man in a California Walmart over the weekend has led to intense backlash from civil rights activists, calls for protests and a Facebook video from the local police chief to “dispel some rumors” about the incident.
Police in San Leandro in the Bay Area shot Steven Taylor on Saturday afternoon after he wielded a baseball bat inside a local Walmart. A video shot by a bystander captured two officers pointing their weapons at Taylor holding a bat near the doors on the Walmart floor.
The footage appears to show one of the officers deploying a Taser after Taylor had dropped the bat on the floor and was lying on the ground. One witness is heard shouting, “Don’t shoot him no more!” Police said one of the officers hit Taylor with a bullet in the upper torso, and the officers tried to use their Tasers multiple times during the confrontation.
Lee Merritt, an attorney for Taylor’s family, said Taylor was going through a mental health crisis on Saturday afternoon, and that he has previously suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and bipolar depression. “He was shot after he had become completely helpless and no longer represented a threat,” Merritt told the Guardian on Monday.
Merritt said he wasn’t sure yet whether police shot Taylor with a Taser or bullet after he was already down, and that an autopsy was under way.
Merritt also alleged that the officers provided insufficient care once Taylor was shot. “Their job, according to standard operating procedures, was to get Mr Taylor help. He had been seriously wounded and was suffering from a mental health crisis. They had to treat him quickly. They did the opposite and exacerbated his injuries,” Merritt said.
The San Leandro police department said Taylor had not complied with officers’ commands to drop the bat and had walked toward police. At this point, one officer discharged his Taser “which was not effective”, according to the department. Then, police said, the officer fired his gun at Taylor, hitting him in the “front of his upper body”. Seconds later, another officer discharged his Taser at the man, according to the department. Taylor died at the scene.
Taylor’s family is calling for charges against the officers. Merritt, who represents families of those killed by police in federal litigation, said the officers should face homicide charges for targeting Taylor after the threat was “neutralized”. He said police should have de-escalated by clearing the Walmart, surrounding Taylor and trying to talk him down, instead of quickly using lethal force.
The San Leandro police chief, Jeff Tudor, said in an interview that the “pop” heard on the video after Taylor was already on the ground came from a Taser, and that it was too early to speculate whether that shot had hit Taylor or whether it was justified and in line with department policy. One officer was initially “trying to de-escalate the situation and grab the bat”, Tudor said, adding, “It’s very tragic.”
On Sunday, Tudor publicly acknowledged that the shooting had upset many. “Our community is hurting right now,” Tudor said in a Facebook video. “But protecting the sanctity of life is extremely important. I know there are a lot of questions and concerns.”
Few details have emerged about Taylor since he was killed. Merritt said Taylor had three children, including an 11-year-old, and that he leaves behind three siblings. “I hope they don’t see their father executed like that,” Merritt said.
He added that Taylor “was best known for trying to make people laugh”.
The fatal shooting happened just south of Oakland, in a region where residents for years have organized Black Lives Matter protests against police brutality and police shootings.
Last year, California adopted the strictest law in the US limiting when police can kill, dictating that law enforcement must “reasonably believe … deadly force is necessary to defend against an imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury”. Typically, courts across the US have long ruled that shootings are justified if officers claimed they feared for their lives and were acting in self defense, a bar that advocates have said was too low and allowed police to kill civilians with impunity, particularly unarmed black Americans.
Making a phone call in prison. (image: Daniel Stolle/The Intercept)
Prisons Launch "Absurd" Attempt to Detect Coronavirus in Inmate Phone Calls
Akela Lacy, Alice Speri, Jordan Smith and Sam Biddle, The Intercept
Excerpt: "Prison officials in at least three states are using software to scan inmate calls for mentions of the coronavirus, a move advocacy groups believe paves the way for abuse while raising stark questions about carceral health care."
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Akela Lacy, Alice Speri, Jordan Smith and Sam Biddle, The Intercept
Excerpt: "Prison officials in at least three states are using software to scan inmate calls for mentions of the coronavirus, a move advocacy groups believe paves the way for abuse while raising stark questions about carceral health care."
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Activists from the Venezuela Solidarity Coalition of Western Massachusetts. (photo: The Resistance Center
US Citizens Demand Trump to Halt Sanctions Against Venezuela
teleSUR
Excerpt: "U.S. human rights defenders and citizens Monday organized a car rally in Northampton, Massachusetts to demand that President Donald Trump stop his attacks and sanctions against Venezuela, Cuba, and other peoples of the world."
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teleSUR
Excerpt: "U.S. human rights defenders and citizens Monday organized a car rally in Northampton, Massachusetts to demand that President Donald Trump stop his attacks and sanctions against Venezuela, Cuba, and other peoples of the world."
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People eat free food distributed by local charities on April 14, 2020 in New Delhi, India. All shops and establishments in the market of Chandni Chowk are closed in a 40-day lockdown due to COVID-19. (photo: Pallava Bagla/Corbis/Getty Images)
UN: Acute Food Shortages Worldwide May Double Due to COVID-19
Jordan Davidson, EcoWatch
Davidson writes: "A stark new assessment from the UN's World Food Program found that the economic implications from the economic downturns due to the coronavirus crisis might raise the number of people facing acute food shortages to 265 million, according to Reuters. That's nearly twice as many as were already suffering from acute hunger."
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Jordan Davidson, EcoWatch
Davidson writes: "A stark new assessment from the UN's World Food Program found that the economic implications from the economic downturns due to the coronavirus crisis might raise the number of people facing acute food shortages to 265 million, according to Reuters. That's nearly twice as many as were already suffering from acute hunger."
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