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Police Complaints Rising
Brutality complaints were on the rise at three area law enforcement departments; they had increased by 25 percent in the last five years. Complaints about other officer misconduct, such as rudeness or harassment, also were on the rise. Few citizen complaints were validated by the departments, which investigated the complaints themselves. The majority of complaints were deemed unsubstantiated and in many cases they were classified as false, which subjected the complainant to possible criminal prosecution.
Tags: civil liberties; law enforcement; police brutality; search and seizure; excessive force; civil rights activists
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A House Divided; The War Within
Beirich and Potok report on the takeover of the Sons of Confederate Veterans by extremist hate groups directed by "a white supremacist lawyer and long-time radical right activist named Kirk Lyons." As a group of extremists has taken control of the board of the "heritage organization" with more than 30,000 members nationwide, the stories warn that some might abandon SCV.
Tags: racism; Civil War; discrimination; Confederate battle flag; minorities; African-Americans; soldiers
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You're in the Hole: A Crackdown on Dissident Prisoners
A Progressive investigation reveals that "in the hours following the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, dissident prisoners were singled out from the general population and take to secure housing units." Some of the isolated inmates were denied access to counsel; their lawyers were denied phone conversations and personal visits with their clients. Cusac finds that most of the segregated prisoners happened to be peace-activists or left-wing. Without any public comment, six weeks after Sept. 11 the Justice Department implemented an interim rule that justified the infringement on the detainees' human rights, and explained the new policy with intelligence and law enforcement concerns.
Tags: Amnesty International; human rights; civil rights; terrorism; John Ashcroft; attorneys; lawyers; military
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The haunting of the new South.
Esquire reports on the prosecution of a man accused of the murder of NAACP and civil rights activist Medgar Evers, who was shot in Mississippi in 1963, July 1991.
Tags: Civil rights; Medgar Evers; Mississippi; NAACP
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Surviving St. Claire Village
Pittsburgh Press depicts life in the projects in a detailed eight-part series; crack and a mobile grocery store are the only businesses; while some civil rights activists, educators and police officers work to improve life there, drug dealing and poverty are winning, March 4 - 11, 1990.
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Who Killed Harry Moore?
WTSP-TV (St. Petersburg) investigates the life and 1951 death of a Florida civil rights activist; finds the case was covered up by the FBI and Justice Department officials to avoid racial animosity, Nov. 11 - 13, 1985.
Tags: minorities; government; civil rights; racism
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Clarion-Ledger reporter notes an unusual string of tax audits--27 in all--of civil rights activists, October 1976.
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