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The Accountant Who Wants to Take On the Police

Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.One night in late January, Los Angeles’ brand new controller, Kenneth Mejia, zipped up an official windbreaker with a city seal on the left breast, and walked out of City Hall to police headquarters. Mejia, an athletic 32-year-old with…

“All I Want Is My Baby Brother Back”

AP Photo/Jeff Roberson Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Three weeks after his death at the hands of Memphis police, Tyre Nichols is finally being laid to rest. On Wednesday, friends and family gathered to celebrate Nichols’ life at the Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church in…

Hero of 2022: Those LA Police Funding Billboards

Mother Jones; Kenneth Mejia About a month after President Joe Biden declared in his State of the Union address that the answer to crime is to “fund the police, fund them, fund them,” a mint green billboard appeared above a gas station one block from a northern Los Angeles Police Department precinct. Passersby who happened…