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...
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, 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...
