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Iowa Newspaper Posts Black Burglary Suspects’ Mugshots, Posts White Burglary Suspects’ Yearbook Pictures

Iowa-Gazette-burglary-suspect-photos-800x430 — Iowa burglary suspects Photo: Iowa Gazette

An Iowa newspaper is accused of pro-white bias after it handled the same alleged crime between two different sets of suspects in radically different ways.

Blogger Rafi D’Angelo at SoLetsTalkAboutIt.com pointed out that in reports filed on successive days, the The Gazette in Cedar Rapids printed mug shot photos of black burglary suspects and yearbook photos for white burglary suspects. Continue reading “Iowa Newspaper Posts Black Burglary Suspects’ Mugshots, Posts White Burglary Suspects’ Yearbook Pictures”

The Family Of 8 Year Old Boy Killed By Boston Bomber Testifies During Trial

8yr old — A photo of Martin Richard, the 8-year-old boy killed in the Boston Bombing. Photo: Boston Globe

An 8-year-old boy who once urged people to “stop hurting each other” was literally blown apart by a homemade bomb as he watched the 2013 Boston Marathon with his family, jurors heard Monday.

Federal prosecutors rested their case with grisly testimony about how the bomb Dzhokar Tsarnaev placed near the marathon’s finish line tore through the bodies of Martin Richard and Lingzi Lu, a 23-year-old grad student.

A second bomb placed by Tsarnaev’s brother, Tamerlan, killed Krystle Campbell, a 29-year-old restaurant manager. Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in a gun battle with police three days after the bombing. Continue reading “The Family Of 8 Year Old Boy Killed By Boston Bomber Testifies During Trial”

Rapper Killer Mike Pens An Open Letter About Rap Lyrics Being Manipulated In Courts To Land Convictions

arrested — The “Hip Hop police” and other law enforcement organizations have begun using the words of hip hop artists against them to obtain convictions within the judicial system.

Early on during my research involving the case of New Orleans rapper McKinley “Mac” Phipps Jr., it became increasingly obvious that not only was Mac convicted and sentenced to 30 years in prison based on corruption, prosecutorial misconduct and false witness testimonies, but he may have also been railroaded by authorities and rendered such a substantial sentence simply because he is a rapper –a trend that seems to be rapidly increasing within the Hip Hop genre.

According to the New York Times, police and prosecutors are examining rap videos by rap artists to build criminal cases and get a “better sense of the hierarchy of the streets.”

The following Rolling Stone article was forwarded to me by Angelique Christina, the fiancée of the incarcerated rapper who is working relentlessly with attorneys, along with the Phipps family, to get Mac’s conviction overturned.

Angelique is currently lobbying for the state of Louisiana officials to implement justice reform policies and she is hoping that cases such as Mac’s will highlight the atrocities that are running ramped within the criminal justice system. Her plan is to help bring these injustices to the forefront in hopes of rectification on behalf of the state and federal judicial systems.

In relation to Mac’s case she told the Huffington Post, “I can only hope that DA Warren Montgomery will right the unforgivable wrongs in this case not only for McKinley, but also for the family of the victim, the individuals that have been needlessly harassed and or jailed by the very officials who are supposed to protect and serve them, and finally, as a notable precedent for national justice reform”. -Angelique Christina Continue reading “Rapper Killer Mike Pens An Open Letter About Rap Lyrics Being Manipulated In Courts To Land Convictions”