by operations | Jun 8, 2023 | Emancipate NC News, Policing
James Lanier, a Black man, was unarmed, unclothed, and suffering from a mental health crisis when he was tased, shot, and killed by police in February outside a mini mart in his hometown of Wallace, NC. Lanier had struggled with schizophrenia from a young age; police...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Jun 1, 2023 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Policing
Photo credit: Cornell Watson (Kenya Walton (L) and Yolanda Irving (R)) On May 23, 2023, the Plaintiffs in Yolanda Irving et al. v. City of Raleigh et al., reached a settlement in their federal lawsuit with the City of Raleigh for $350,000.* Plaintiffs—two Black...
by operations | May 25, 2023 | Emancipate NC News, Policing
On Wednesday, Team Emancipate met with attorneys from the Civil Rights Section of the United States Department of Justice. USDOJ agreed to meet with us after we sent a letter detailing systematic constitutional violations by the Raleigh Police Department (RPD). ...
by operations | May 24, 2023 | Emancipate NC News, Policing
Emancipate NC Executive Director Dawn Blagrove writes an urgent call for action in Raleigh this Mental Health Awareness Month: Helplessness. Fear. Internal turmoil. These are just a few of the emotions you may feel if a loved one was having a mental health crisis. You...
by operations | May 11, 2023 | Emancipate NC News, Policing
Image credit: ABC 11 News Last Friday, after meeting with Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman, national civil rights attorney Ben Crump joined again with Emancipate’s Dawn Blagrove at a press conference to call for the termination and criminal prosecution of...
by operations | Apr 27, 2023 | Emancipate NC News, Policing
Painting of Darryl Williams, a man tased to death by RPD earlier this year, by Ashlee Inscoe Over the past years, we have written and spoken extensively about the Raleigh Police Department’s track record of police murders, excessive force, racial profiling, First...
