Here’s Why the Bipartisan Police Reform Bill Was Always Going to Fail
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.This week, two of only three Black US Senators threw in the towel on congressional police reform—a perfect embodiment of both government dysfunction and the lack of real commitment to systematically overhaul the way…
Vaccine Protests Prove the Only Personal Liberties Cops Care About Are Their Own
Julio Cortez/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.One of the biggest threats to public safety right now is the people who are charged with protecting it. As both the virus and the culture wars over how to end the pandemic rage, law…
McKayla Maroney’s Powerful Testimony to Congress Shows the Uphill Battle Survivors Face
Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Six years have passed since the FBI was first presented with evidence of Larry Nassar’s sexual abuse of young gymnasts during a July 2015 meeting between leaders of USA Gymnastics and the FBI’s Indianapolis field…
Illinois Becomes the First State to Block Cops from Lying to Kids
Rose Palmisano/OC Register/Zuma Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.This week, Illinois became the first state in the nation to make it illegal for police officers to lie to children during interrogations. The new law signed this week by Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker…
Behind the Video of Cops Brutalizing Kids for Vaping Is a History of Racial Exclusion, Force, and Profit
Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.With a group of seven friends, Brian Anderson, 19, was celebrating senior week on the Ocean City, Maryland, boardwalk: a 3-mile stretch of novelty T-shirt shops, beachfront hotels, and fried food…
Cops Tased and Tackled Black Teenagers Just Because They Were Holding Vapes
Ocean City Boardwalk in 2020Caroline Brehman/Congressional Quarterly/Zuma Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This weekend, police officers enforcing a vaping ban violently arrested four Black teens in Ocean City, Maryland. Police tackled and repeatedly kneed a 19-year-old…