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A coalition of more than 25 community organizations are asking St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones to map out a plan for reparations.
St. Louis attorneys and activists say judges are often denying defendants bond entirely after the Missouri Supreme Court in 2019 made it harder for courts to detain people on cash bail pretrial. “It’s a classic case of the system recalibrating and in some ways achieving many of the same results,” said Blake Strode, executive director of civil rights law firm ArchCity Defenders.
EDWARDSVILLE – Newly hired Madison County assistant state’s attorney Mary Pat Carl pledged to end cash bail when she ran for St. Louis circuit attorney last year.
St. Louis Public Radio One year ago Tuesday, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for 9 minutes, 29 seconds. Protesters in the St. Louis region flooded the streets to protest police brutality. Today, people are still demanding that police stop killing Black people and calling for racial equity in the criminal justice system. A year ago, a Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for nearly 10 minutes. Floyd’s brutal death set off a wave of protests in cities across the nation, including St. Louis, where ac...
Two Black men were killed by police last month, and in both cases, police were attempting to serve arrest warrants. The Into America podcast goes to Ferguson, Mo. to understand the successes and challenges of warrant reform.