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DeRay Mckesson joins to discuss his work with Campaign Zero and issues with the criminal justice system

Friday Night Protest, an activist group that holds weekly demonstrations to honor people killed by the Kansas City Police Department, has taken another step in advocating for police accountability and the victims of police violence.

Creating public-private partnerships is the key to blanketing Florida in broadband.

The session, hosted at Smith Recreation Center, was the first of three public information sessions to be held by ShotSpotter representatives this week.

A federal judge overseeing a consent decree requiring police reform in Baltimore called police in that city Oct. 16 to report two hostile squeegee men working at an intersection in the Bolton Hill neighborhood in Baltimore.

A federal judge overseeing Baltimore Police’s reform efforts called officers Sunday and reported that a pair of squeegee workers gave him the middle finger, spat on his car and wrote “racist” in suds on the windows.

ShotSpotter will not solve gun violence. It will, however, deprive the city of badly needed funding to address the root causes of violence, and, as other cities have shown, increase the likelihood of violent encounters with police.

The NAACP wants "increased transparency, appropriate police improvements, and a community dialogue concerning the effects of qualified immunity."

Gregory Acevedo, 48, jumped from the rooftop recreation yard at the Vernon C. Bain Center in Hunt’s Point about 11:44 a.m. Tuesday after climbing a fence and crawling through razor wire in an escape attempt.

He is the 15th person to die in city custody or shortly after being released this year.