by Mandie Sellars | Aug 16, 2020 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration, Policing
On August 15, WRAL’s Lena Tillett hosted a powerful segment connecting the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s to today’s Black Lives Matter activism and protests. Tillett brought together a Zoom panel of experienced activists across different generations: Judy...
by Mandie Sellars | Aug 13, 2020 | Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration, Policing
Above, Executive Director Dawn Blagrove and Community Organizer Kerwin Pittman stand in front of the newly-erected billboard that will stay up until at least September 6. On August 10, Emancipate NC’s Kerwin Pittman helped organize funds and logistics to have another...
by Mandie Sellars | Aug 5, 2020 | Emancipate NC News, Policing
Qualified immunity is one of the critical reasons so many police are never successfully held accountable for misconduct. And even in the rare occurrence that police are held accountable, qualified immunity means they almost never personally have to pay for violating...
by Mandie Sellars | Jul 1, 2020 | Emancipate NC News, Policing
by Noah Mlyn “Deadly Discretion: The Failure of Police Use of Force Policies to Meet Fundamental International Human Rights Law and Standards,” published this week by the University of Chicago’s International Human Rights Clinic, evaluates the use of force policies in...
by Mandie Sellars | Jun 28, 2020 | Emancipate NC News, Policing
by Dawn Blagrove, Executive Director I was 16 years old, living in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. I was in the car with my mother, on a dark road, picking my father up from his second shift job. Two police officers pulled us over for a trumped up traffic violation. We were...
by Mandie Sellars | Jun 13, 2020 | Emancipate NC News, Policing
by Dawn Blagrove, Executive Director As Sam Cooke sang — a change is gonna come. Never have these words been more true in my lifetime. Never have I been more sure that a radical reimagining and rebuilding of the American criminal justice system is...
