FAC Live: Accessing Police Misconduct Records with KQED’s ‘On Our Watch’ Journalists and open-government lawyers
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Q&A with human rights lawyer James Tager on what alarms him most about the legislative response to recent protest movements Return to the Protest & Pushback main page → George Floyd’s murder at the hands of police, captured on cell phone video seen around the world, sparked mass protests for racial justice. A new generation took to the streets and halls of power to raise their voices, leading to real changes in policy and in
Q&A with Constitutional Law Scholar Margaret M. Russell Return to the Protest & Pushback main page → The murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer spurred what historians call the largest protest movement in U.S. history. Over the course of the next year, a reckoning over racial justice prompted concrete changes in policies and politics, and it changed the conversation surrounding racial justice forever. But Black Lives Matter, like major civil rights and
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