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Amicus, Criminal Justice, Human Rights, Policing and Law Enforcement, Racial Justice

A Safe and Flourishing Future: One Law Student’s Case for Abolition

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If you are new to abolition, I do not expect you to fully embrace these values. Rather, I again ask you to be courageously curious. When presented with new ideas, people project their own wants and needs onto them to make them familiar. Because abolition is borne from Black radical imagination, most people’s projections evoke fear. Black radical imagination is completely counter to the standard we are told to orient towards. Even with more people discussing race issues, we as a collective are still taught to fear and criminalize Blackness, especially in law school where the golden standard is white male “objectivity.”

Amicus, Congress, Criminal Justice, Legal History, Legislation, Policing and Law Enforcement, Racial Justice

The Ostrich Rears its Head: America’s 2020 Racial Reckoning is a Victory and Opportunity

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The recognition of the pain that so many Black people experience is bittersweet. While a hard-fought culture war victory, it reflects the tragic reality that acknowledgment of this anguish was culture war fodder at all. We live in a world where a 12-year-old playing in a park with a toy gun was shot within two seconds, but mass murderers who target children, synagogues, and churchgoers are apprehended alive to have their day in court.

Amicus, Courts & Judicial Interpretation, Criminal Justice, Policing and Law Enforcement, Racial Justice

Where the Confrontation Clause Gets it Wrong: Police Brutality Cases

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As police officers continue to shoot and kill unarmed civilians, we must examine the disparity between police brutality and police accountability. Too many officers kill unarmed Black people with little to no consequences. One barrier to accountability is gathering witnesses, as witnesses are required to present themselves for trial to testify against accused officers.

Amicus, Guest Author, Human Rights, Immigration, Policing and Law Enforcement

Abuse of Power by ICE and CBP: Perspective from an Immigration Attorney and Water Drop Volunteer

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Guest post by Kirsten Zittlau. Ms. Zittlau is an immigration attorney living in San Diego, California. She has volunteered dropping water in the California desert near the Mexico border for over two and half years. Ms. Zittlau has been an attorney since 2002 but made the switch to immigration law last year in order to advocate for immigrants and fight against the abuses of power by the current administration.

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