by Elizabeth Simpson | Mar 29, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Policing
Valarie Smith Ragland just wants to see the footage of her son dying. Makari J Smith, of Oxford, NC, was fatally shot on February 9, 2022, at the age of 23, by the Granville County Sheriff’s Office while in the midst of a probable psychotic...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Mar 8, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Policing
Last month, Emancipate NC attorneys Ian Mance and Elizabeth Simpson, joined with co-counsel Emily Gladden and Abe Rubert-Schewel from the law firm of Tin Fulton Walker & Owen and Michael Littlejohn from Littlejohn Law, to sue the Raleigh Police Department on...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Feb 17, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Policing
On February 10, Emancipate NC joined with El Pueblo, Respuesta Rapida de Durham, and NC SPAN to host a peaceful march in memory of Daniel Turcios, and to hold police accountable for his murder. The Indy Week covered...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Feb 3, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Policing
In light of Wake County Superior Court Judge Collins’ puzzling decision to publicly release body camera footage from Daniel Turcios’ police killing, while shielding the footage from an illegal Raleigh police No Knock home raid on innocent civilians,...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Feb 3, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Policing
Emancipate NC attorney Ian Mance and Emancipate NC client Stephanie Bottom are featured in a new CNN documentary: “CNN Special Report- Traffic Stop: Dangerous Encounters” In a one-hour special, CNN national correspondent Sara Sidner explores traffic stops and the...
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...
