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Progressive and Democratic lawmakers are slamming the Kenosha County district attorney's decision on Tuesday to not file criminal charges against Rusten Sheskey, a white police officer who shot 29-year-old Black man Jacob Blake in the back seven times while responding to a domestic disturbance call in August.
FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA Gov. Gretchen Whitmer speaks during a drive-in campaign rally with Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama at Belle Isle on October 31, 2020 in Detroit, Michigan. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/TNS) Feds side with Michigan religious schools in suit over Covid-19 restrictions DETROIT — The U.S. Department of Justice has sided with religious and private schools in Michigan that brought a lawsuit challenging the state’s latest restrictions halting in-person high school instruction due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Justice Depart...
District no longer secludes students with disabilities December 31, 2020 GMT INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A southwestern Indiana school district has agreed to stop secluding and restraining students with disabilities, the U.S. Justice Department said Thursday. The agreement with the North Gibson School Corp. in Princeton follows the department’s investigation into a complaint that the district inappropriately secluded and restrained students with emotional and behavioral disabilities as young as 5 years old in so-called self-contained classrooms. Self-contained classrooms were defined as those com...
Iowa care home accused of performing 'bizarre and dangerous experiments' on disabled residents One teenager was restrained 293 times as Glenwood Resource Center overhydrated residents and physically harmed them, the report said 24 December 2020 • 3:04am The Glenwood Resource Center violated residents' rights with its use of restraints, the Department of Justice said Credit: AP A care home in Iowa for people with intellectual disabilities subjected residents to "bizarre experiments" and used them as "human guinea pigs," according to a US justice department investigation. The inquiry into ...
OCALA, Flordia (WESH) -- The United States Department of Justice on Tuesday released a scathing report alleging that Florida’s largest women’s prison, located in Ocala, has repeatedly failed to protect