by Elizabeth Simpson | Jun 14, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News
Commentary by Elizabeth Simpson The rulers make the rules. When they do, they impose their ideas of “right” and “wrong” on everybody else. That’s why alcohol is legal in North Carolina and weed is not. During Prohibition, as white Southerners brewed illegal moonshine...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Jun 14, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration
Please join Emancipate NC’s Cierra Cobb and Kerwin Pittman, along with many allied people and organizations, at a coalition event on June 26 at 2 pm at Chavis Community Center to demonstrate solidarity with people in...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Jun 14, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Policing
On June 8, 2022, on the heels of Emancipate NC petitioning for release of body camera footage of the police shooting of Reuel Rodriguez-Nunez, Raleigh Police finally admitted they need a De-Escalation Policy. The police adopted Kerwin Pittman’s language,...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Jun 14, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Justice League, Legislative Updates
The following summary of Senate Bill 660 comes from our Justice League Fellow and summer intern, Kyla Holton. The proliferation of publish-for-pay entities publishing booking photographs is a problem that prevents people from achieving a fresh start with housing and...
by Elizabeth Simpson | May 26, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Policing
On May 13, Emancipate NC Associate Director Elizabeth Simpson filed an amicus brief in the North Carolina Supreme Court about probable cause and cannabis. It calls for the Court to stop police from using the smell of “weed” as a pretext to...
by Elizabeth Simpson | May 26, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News
Join Emancipate NC and Mapinduzi on Saturday, May 28 at 3:30 p.m. at 804 West 5th Street in Greenville, NC for an African Liberation Day festival. The event includes guest speakers, free food, entertainment, activities for kids, local...
