FBI Director Addresses Race and Policing<\/b><\/p>\n
In a speech<\/a> to Georgetown students, director of the FBI, James B. Comey, spoke about\u00a0how racial perceptions affect policing in neighborhoods where African Americans commit crimes at a higher rate. Mr. Comey said some officers in these areas scrutinize African Americans more closely because of a heuristic\u00a0that \u201cbecomes almost irresistible and maybe even rational by some lights\u201d<\/a>\u00a0since\u00a0arrest rate for black men is much higher than arrest for white men.<\/p>\n New York Police Officer Indicted in Shooting of Akai Gurley<\/strong><\/p>\n On Wednesday, a New York grand jury returned a six-count indictment<\/a>, including second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide,\u00a0against Officer Peter Liang for the Nov. 20 killing of Akai Gurley. Mr. Gurley, who was black and unarmed at the time of his death, was shot and killed inside a Brooklyn housing project. Officer Liang is the first New York City police to be indicted in more than two years<\/a> for an on-duty killing. \u00a0The indictment comes two months after a Staten Island grand jury refused to indict a New York police officer for the death of Eric Garner<\/a>\u00a0and three months after a Missouri grand jury did not indict Officer Darren Wilson\u00a0in the death of Michael Brown<\/a>.<\/p>\n Muslim Students’ Death Investigated as Possible Hate Crime<\/strong><\/p>\n On Tuesday, Craig Stephen Hicks shot and killed three Muslim students in Chapel Hill over an alleged parking dispute<\/a>. The incident quickly drew national attention as the FBI and the Dept. of Justice announced on Thursday<\/a> that a federal inquiry had begun to investigate the possibility of a hate crime. President Obama condemned the killings the next Friday in a White House statement<\/a>, calling the deaths of the three students “brutal and outrageous.”<\/p>\n Harvard and MIT\u00a0Online Courses Sued for Lack of Captioning<\/strong><\/p>\n The National Association of the Deaf is suing Harvard and MIT for violation\u00a0of federal anti-discrimination laws<\/a> by failing to provide adequate closed captioning for their online educational materials. The complaint<\/a> alleges the lack of captioning, along with inaccurate or unintelligible captions, denied access to the two schools’ online content for approximately 48 million Americans who are deaf or hard of hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" FBI Director Addresses Race and Policing In a speech to Georgetown students, director of the FBI, James B. 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