by Elizabeth Simpson | Feb 3, 2022 | Confederate monuments, Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News
Emancipate NC attorney Ian Mance, along with Elizabeth Hambourger, an attorney from the Center for Death Penalty Litigation, published an article in Trial Briefs about attorneys’ duty to challenge the racist symbols, including Confederate monuments, in our counties’...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Feb 3, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration, Policing
Yesterday, associate director Elizabeth Simpson filed an amicus brief in the North Carolina Supreme Court in State v. Johnson, a case about how criminal defendants can prove racial profiling and selective enforcement of the law. Using new data analysis from public...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Feb 3, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Policing
Yolanda Irving and Kenya Walton are two Black mothers in Raleigh, whose homes were wrongfully raided by a Raleigh Police SWAT Team in 2020. The raid was based on a bad address on a warrant, stemming from a corrupt cop and a corrupt informant. The mothers’...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Jan 20, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Justice League
Jatoia Potts is a 2022 Emancipate NC Justice League Fellow. Jatoia first met the Emancipate NC team in December 2019, after she was released from pretrial detention in the Durham County jail, where she spent over nine months locked up on a $250,000 bond. The...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Jan 20, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Policing
Image courtesy of WUNC and Jason DeBruyn. It depicts Kerwin Pittman addressing reporters, as Dawn Blagrove and Ivan Almonte comfort Rosa Jerez, the wife of Daniel Turcios. Last week, the Raleigh Police Department needleessly murdered another civilian–this time, a...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Jan 6, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Policing
Image depicts Dawn Blagrove with William and Kim Smith at the Durham Police Department awaiting release of body camera footage. Emancipate NC has prepared a petition to publicly release body camera footage from an aggressive police action by the Durham...
