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Emily RizzoApril 5, 2021
Philadelphia schools Superintendent William Hite calls for equitable school funding during a press conference at Martin Luther King High School. He was joined by District Attorney Larry Krasner, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney, State Senator Vincent Hughes and other officials calling for the adoption of Gov. Tom Wolf s proposed fair school funding formula. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner says Gov. Tom Wolf’s latest education funding proposal amounts to “the kind of anti-crime legislation that works.”
Krasner joined an array of state and local Democrats who rallied outside Martin Luther King High School in support of Wolf’s plans for a massive education funding increase.
The Legal Journey For The Longest-Serving Juvenile Inmate By
Emily Lever | April 4, 2021, 8:02 PM EDT
Joe Ligon poses with his attorney, Bradley Bridge, upon his release from prison after 68 years of incarceration. (Courtesy of the Defender Association of Philadelphia)
When Joe Ligon s public defender, Bradley Bridge, drove him home after he was released from State Correctional Institution – Phoenix in Montgomery County on Feb. 11, Ligon was unnerved when Bridge took a call on speakerphone on his cell. He was unfamiliar with the technology and thrown by the disembodied voice echoing through the car.
It was only one of the many changes he had to adjust to. The Philadelphia skyline had changed since he d been inside. He had outlived almost everyone he knew.
Retired Pa. police officers apologize for fundraiser that blamed George Floyd for his own death
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A picture of George Floyd hangs on a fence outside the Hennepin County Government Center, Tuesday, March 30, 2021, in Minneapolis where the trial for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin continues. Chauvin is charged with murder in the death of Floyd during an arrest last May in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)
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By Chris Brennan, The Philadelphia Inquirer (TNS)
A group of retired Philadelphia police officers apologized Friday for a Thursday fundraising email that blamed George Floyd for his own death and claimed former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is on “trial for a murder he did not commit.”
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