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With the hospital system on the brink of collapse, India marked another bleak milestone on Wednesday after reporting more than 3,200 deaths from the coronavirus, pushing the country past 200,000 total deaths during the pandemic. India became the fourth country to surpass the grim marker behind the United States, Brazil and Mexico.
India is struggling to contain the new surge of COVID-19 cases, which started spiking in March, setting yet another global record, reporting 362,757 new infections in a single day. Hospitalizations and deaths are reaching record highs as supplies of oxygen, hospital beds and other critical supplies have run out. And, experts fear the crisis may be even worse than the officially reported figures because of possible undercounting.
India passes 200,000 COVID-19 deaths
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Protesters confront law enforcement on April 13 outside the police headquarters in Brooklyn Center, Minn., over the fatal shooting of 20-year-old Daunte Wright by an officer. The NAACP Legal Defense And Education Fund is asking the Justice Department to suspend local police grants, citing ongoing killings of Black people like Wright by police. Stephen Maturen / Getty Images
A major civil rights group says the Justice Department has more a lot more power than it s using to change the behavior of local police departments.
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund wants Attorney General Merrick Garland to suspend grants to local law enforcement until he s sure that no federal taxpayer money is funding police departments that engage in discrimination, according to a letter obtained by NPR.
Civil Rights Group Calls On Justice Dept. To Suspend Local Police Grants
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A major civil rights group says the Justice Department has more a lot more power than it s using to change the behavior of local police departments.
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund wants Attorney General Merrick Garland to suspend grants to local law enforcement until he s sure that no federal taxpayer money is funding police departments that engage in discrimination, according to a letter obtained by NPR.
The letter comes days after a jury convicted former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin of murder in the death of George Floyd. Garland has announced a sweeping federal civil rights investigation of the police force there that will examine use of force, discrimination and possible mistreatment of people with behavior disorders.
Protesters confront law enforcement on April 13 outside the police headquarters in Brooklyn Center, Minn., over the fatal shooting of 20-year-old Daunte Wright by an officer. The NAACP Legal Defense And Education Fund is asking the Justice Department to suspend local police grants, citing ongoing killings of Black people like Wright by police. Stephen Maturen/Getty Images
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Protesters confront law enforcement on April 13 outside the police headquarters in Brooklyn Center, Minn., over the fatal shooting of 20-year-old Daunte Wright by an officer. The NAACP Legal Defense And Education Fund is asking the Justice Department to suspend local police grants, citing ongoing killings of Black people like Wright by police.
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