A Special Unit to Prosecute Police Killings Has No Convictions
The case of Daniel Prude’s death is the latest example of the challenges prosecutors face when they try to hold police officers accountable.
A protest erupted in Rochester, N.Y., on Tuesday night after it was announced that the officers involved in Daniel Prude’s death would not face charges.Credit.Joshua Rashaad McFadden for The New York Times
Published Feb. 26, 2021Updated Feb. 27, 2021
More than five years ago, Andrew M. Cuomo, the governor of New York, signed an executive order to address a persistent concern: Police officers were rarely held accountable for killing unarmed people. Often, those who died were Black.
(Zondo Commission) after the North Gauteng High Court granted it a three-month extension until June 2021.
Interestingly, on the other hand, Finance Minister Tito Mboweni in his Budget speech on 24 February 2021 vowed not to give any further money to the commission to finish its work during the extended period. This is now the second year running of it not getting money since the extra R272.9-million allocated in 2019.
To rub salt in the wounds, the disrespect the commission has been worried about came to fruition when another key witness, the director of Swifambo Rail, Auswell Mashaba, defied it.
According to Mboweni, “this perpetual extension… is not really conducive – they must finish their work”. If only pushing processes to finality as soon as possible was the approach of the government and/or its ministers in their different portfolios, South Africa would have been a better place with regard to service delivery.
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I am a full professor and member of the Center for Health Law Studies at Saint Louis University School of Law. She is also co-founder and Executive Director of Saint Louis University’s Institute for Healing Justice and Equity. I am Co-Principal Investigator of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant entitled, “Are Cities and Counties Ready to Use Racial Equity Tools to Influence Policy?” Recently, I authored a report entitled, Protecting Workers that Provide Essential Services, in the COVID-19 PolicyPlaybook and co-authored, Racism is a Public Health Crisis. Here’s How to Respond. Using empirical data, her research explores the ways in which discrimination prevents vulnerable communities from attaining equal access to quality health care, resulting in health inequities. My work has been cited in THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC HEALTH ETHICS (2019), DOLGIN & SHEPHARD, BIOETHICS AND THE LAW (4th ed 2019), and MARK HALL, ET AL, HEALTH CARE LAW AND ETHICS (9th ed 2018). She earned
North Carolina Senator
Vickie Sawyer serves as vice chair. The Committee discussed state actions relating to COVID-19 business immunity statutes, and adopted the NCOIL COVID-19 Limited Immunity Model Act (Model), sponsored by
Rep. Rowland and
Indiana Representative
Matt Lehman, NCOIL President. The Model will be considered by the NCOIL Executive Committee for final adoption at the NCOIL Spring Meeting in April.
Rep. Rowland said, I want to thank everyone who participated in the interim meeting. We had a great initial discussion on these issues in December at the NCOIL Annual Meeting, which included a number of speakers with differing views. That discussion enabled us to digest all the feedback on the initial draft of the Model and move forward with adoption of the Model during this interim meeting. I am pleased we were able to adopt the Model as so many states, including my home state of