Federal defense lawyers are urging dismissal of the rare felony civil disorder charge filed against more than a dozen people arrested in last year’s social justice protests in Portland, arguing the offense was created in 1968 to quash civil rights advocacy. Attorneys representing one of the defendants outlined the legislative history of the federal crime in a lengthy brief filed this week with .
As the director of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, I have been taking University of Florida students to the Mississippi Delta every summer since 2008 to study the origins and legacies of the modern civil rights movement. Up until 2020 when the global pandemic put a temporary halt to our fieldwork students would pile into vans armed with digital audio and video recorders, interview guides and business-casual clothing appropriate for mid-July in the sweltering Delta heat.
After a 12-hour drive from Gainesville to one of several small towns located near the mighty Mississippi River, students would begin the process of getting acclimated to the region that historian James C. Cobb famously called “the most southern place on earth.”
Virginia Police Confiscated Guns From Black Men At Gun Rights Rally While White Demonstrators Marched Freely
Mike Dunn, a leader of the Boogaloo Bois, bragged about his white privilege.
January 22, 2021 at 8:06 pm
Police in Virginia confiscated two firearms from Black men at a rally for gun rights, adding fuel to residents concerns about law enforcement applying double standards when it comes to the open carry policy.
Reuters reporters, who witnessed the incident on Monday at the annual Lobby Day in Richmond, Virginia, said there was a stark contrast between the officers approach towards the Black and the white demonstrators. While police stopped a car of Black men and took their guns, dozens of white pro-gun activists marched on foot and traveled in hundreds of trucks, driving unimpeded through the streets with “Guns Save Lives” flags, Reuters reported.