Google Workers Are Demanding That the Company Stop Working With Police
The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Images For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.In a new letter, more than 1,600 Google workers are demanding that the company end its work with police departments across the country. “The past weeks have shown us that addressing racism is not merely an…
Detroit Teens Are Teaming Up to Paint Murals of Justice
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Artists are doing their best in Detroit, and around the country, to celebrate the progress and inspire more like it as the protests against police violence and racial injustice continue. Dozens of teens are using paint rollers to create a massive mural…
Defunding the Police Doesn’t Poll Well. That Doesn’t Matter.
Anthony Behar/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Black feminists have led the movement on defunding and eventually abolishing the police, and gradually the idea has gained momentum across the country. Since the killing of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis Police Department on Memorial Day,…
“You’re Not Coming to Bring Us Justice. So What Are You Coming For?”
Protesters chant in Tulsa, Okla., on Saturday, May 30, 2020, during a rally to protest the death of George Floyd, a black man who was killed in police custody in Minneapolis on May 25. Ian Maule/Tulsa World/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.As a child, Greg Robinson…
The Cop Who Shot Rayshard Brooks Has Been Charged With Murder
Garrett Rolfe—the former Atlanta police officer who shot and killed Rayshard Brooks last week, kicking him after as he lay on the ground—was charged with felony murder, the Fulton County district attorney announced Wednesday. The shooting already led to the firing of Rolfe and the resignation of Atlanta Police Chief Erika Shields. As Mother Jones…
There’s Already an Alternative to Calling the Police
Carl Payne/High Country News For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.This piece was originally published in High Country News and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. As citizens across the country fill the streets to protest police killings of Black people, the violent response from law enforcement…