The Death of a DC Teacher Renews Calls for Defunding LA Police
steinphoto/ Getty Images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On January 3, Los Angeles police officers killed 31-year-old Keenan Anderson, a Washington, DC, high school English teacher, who was visiting family. He went into cardiac arrest after being repeatedly tased by police responding to a…
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…
“Suicide by Cop”: How Police Present Killings as Unavoidable
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.American police speak in a peculiar lexicon. When an officer guns somebody down, it is an “officer-involved shooting.” When a department spokesperson speaks of “the use of force,” police violence is reduced to basic physics. “Fatality” dulls a plainer…
Are Police Helicopter Fleets Worth the Money?
Beni Benitez stands outside of his home in South Los Angeles, a neighborhood a few miles south of the Los Angeles Police Department’s helicopter landing site.Isabel Avila Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.This piece was published originally by Capital & Main. Los Angeles’ police and sheriff’s departments…
Jan. 6 Rioter Who Dragged a Police Officer Into the Crowd Gets 7.5 Years in Prison
hoto By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Thursday, a US District Court judge sentenced a January 6 rioter to seven years and six months in prison for dragging DC police Officer Michael Fanone into the angry mob…
Pay Attention to These Insanely Important District Attorney Races
Mother Jones illustration; John Minchillo/AP; Mario Tama/Getty; Haven Daley/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.If you care about police accountability, abortion rights, or racial justice, you should be paying attention to district attorney races this election season. As chief prosecutors in their counties, DAs…