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After Black driver is handcuffed and arrested, Va. prosecutor says she never should have been pulled over
Tom Jackman, The Washington Post
May 10, 2021
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Early on March 6, Juanisha C. Brooks was driving home on the Capital Beltway when she saw the flashing lights of an emergency vehicle behind her. At first she thought it was an ambulance and she steered to the shoulder of an exit ramp to let it pass.
Brooks soon realized she was being pulled over, drove from the ramp to the first side street and stopped.
There, Brooks repeatedly asked Virginia State Police Trooper Robert G. Hindenlang why he had pulled her over, and Hindenlang repeatedly refused to say, dashboard-camera video from the trooper s car shows. He did not tell her he had noticed her taillights were out as she drove. Instead, he told Brooks that if she would step outside, he would show her why she had been stopped. Brooks told the trooper she didn t want to get out.
Charges dropped for Black govt employee forcibly removed from car by police
“Would he have done that to a White woman? No,” Juanisha C. Brooks said of the Virginia State trooper. “He didn’t see me as a human being.
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Criminal charges have been dropped against a Black government employee who was dragged out of her car during a traffic stop in March. It’s now been determined that a Virginia State Police trooper had no legal merit to detain
Juanisha C. Brooks.
Virginia State Police Trooper
Robert G. Hindenlang pulled Brooks over on March 6 on her drive home on the Capital beltway shortly after 2 a.m.,
ACLU of Virginia hires Mary Bauer as new executive director
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Mary Bauer. Photo courtesy ACLU of Virginia.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia announced today that it has hired Mary Bauer to succeed Executive Director Claire Guthrie Gastañaga, who announced her retirement in October after nine years with the organization.
“We are thrilled to have Mary join the ACLU of Virginia team,” said Stephen M. Levinson, president of the ACLU of Virginia Board of Directors. “Mary is an experienced executive director, and has served in multiple roles during her career, including legal director, advocacy director and professor. She has deep roots in the Commonwealth that will serve us well.”
SGA president’s past tweets trigger discourse, VCU response
Katharine DeRosa,
News Editor
Student Government Association President Taylor Maloney received backlash on Twitter after an article published in The Post Millennial, a conservative Canadian media outlet, outlined some of Maloney’s past tweets on police and protests.
The April 27 article in The Post Millennial, written by Andy Ngo and Mia Cathell, referred to previous tweets by Maloney as “violent extremist” and “racist.”
Maloney was elected as president of VCU’s Student Government Association last spring. They also serve on the Virginia Student Power Association. Maloney previously advocated for police abolition on campus and in Richmond and is the first openly transgender and nonbinary student government president at a public university, according to the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia.
Virginia deputy mistook cordless house phone for gun in shooting of Black man, attorney says Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY
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A Virginia man is in intensive care after a sheriff s deputy shot him ten times outside his home early Wednesday, his family said.
Isaiah Brown, a 32-year-old Black man, was walking down the street away from his house in Spotsylvania County and was on the phone with a 911 dispatcher when the Virginia sheriff s deputy responded to his house following reports of a domestic incident, according to a police statement, as well as body camera footage and 911 audio.