National Police Accountability Project

Calling all public defenders! Join our member attorney Matt Manning and NACDL for a 90-minute session on how to steer criminal proceedings while positioning your clients' related civil rights claims. The event is free, virtual & coming up next week!
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Proud of our member attorneys at Peoples Law of Chicago & @loevy.com who fought to secure one of the largest pretrial settlements in wrongful conviction history. Wrongfully incarcerated for 36 yrs, Jackie Wilson brought to light a pattern of police torture & corruption.

Destinii was suffering a mental health crisis. Officers shot & killed her and her child before a trained mental health responder could enter. We stand with Tom Porto, our member fighting for justice for Destinii, her daughter & everyone who deserves care, not a death sentence. @samzeff.bsky.social

Midtown bar fight renews scrutiny of Atlanta police conduct A Midtown bar fight involving Garrett Rolfe, the officer who shot Rayshard Brooks, has renewed calls for police accountability in Atlanta.

In 2020, Garrett Rolfe shot & killed Rayshard Brooks. Rolfe was fired, charged with murder & aggravated assault. APD reinstated him less than a year later & placed him on paid leave. This is not accountability. "It’s the most outrageous abuse of power."
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Join us next Thursday with @ofupac.bsky.social as we discuss what Trump's withdrawal from federal oversight of the police means for Cleveland and the state of Ohio.
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Maurene Comey warns her former colleagues: ‘Fear is the tool of the tyrant’ “If a career prosecutor can be fired without reason, fear may seep into the decisions of those who remain. Do not let that happen,” she wrote.

EXCLUSIVE: Fired DOJ prosecutor Maurene Comey sends message to former colleagues, warning that ‘Fear is the tool of the tyrant.’

'They're Not Breathing': Inside the Chaos of ICE Detention Center 911 Calls Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowdin...

NEW: A WIRED investigation of 911 calls placed from ICE detention sites across the US show a system inundated by life-threatening crises, delayed treatment, and overcrowding.

By me & @dmehro.bsky.social. Free to read:

Skateboards and Livestreams: DHS Tells Police That Common Protest Activities Are ‘Violent Tactics’ DHS is urging law enforcement to treat even skateboarding and livestreaming as signs of violent intent during a protest, turning everyday behavior into a pretext for police action.

I and many others who professionally researched and wrote about the first term of Donald Trump have said that his plan is to provoke a second Kent State as a pretext for martial law and the cancellation of the midterms.

Now we find Trump *dramatically* expanding bases for cops to shoot protesters.

Skateboards and Livestreams: DHS Tells Police That Common Protest Activities Are ‘Violent Tactics’ DHS is urging law enforcement to treat even skateboarding and livestreaming as signs of violent intent during a protest, turning everyday behavior into a pretext for police action.

The Department of Homeland Security is telling police to treat mundane activities like skateboarding or live-streaming at a protest as "violent tactics."

This is disturbing, dangerous, and could easily lead to excessive force against people who are simply exercising their First Amendment rights.

Valerie Anderson, whose son, Devon Anderson, was killed by Atlanta Police Officer Melvin Potter, has been a fixture at every city council meeting since her son's death. She says DA Fani Willis has not reached out to her about the status of the investigation into Devon's death.

Devon Anderson & Rayshard Brooks should still be alive today.
📢Fire APD Officer Melvin Potter & investigate ex-Officer Garrett Rolfe.
🔍Audit APD's disciplinary system & probation enforcement.
⚖️Build a real system of transparency & accountability

Why No One in Ohio Prisons Has Been Released Early Under Reform Law Intended to curb prison violence with promises of early release, the law is turning out as unbalanced as critics feared, with sentences extended at every turn.

Ohio’s Reagan Tokes law was intended to curb prison violence with promises of early release. Instead, the law is turning out as unbalanced as critics feared, with sentences extended at every turn.

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🚨Yesterday @abolitionistlawcenter.org filed a lawsuit against the Allegheny County Jail for the physical, psychological, and sexual attack on Kush Wilkerson.

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Solitary confinement is barbaric. Lawsuits to hammer away at the practice -- and all the inhumane practices that typically accompany it -- work.

Statewide legislation barring it outright would be even better ( and we're working on that too).
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This Bay Area County Says It Cut Ties with ICE. This Program Says Otherwise. A widespread data-sharing program highlights financial ties between local police and immigration enforcement—and how even sanctuary jurisdictions still feed “the deportation machine.”

A widespread data-sharing program with ICE supports local and state budgets nationwide—even in so-called sanctuary cities and states that forbid certain law enforcement cooperation and information sharing with ICE.

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📖 at the ACSBlog from Lauren Bonds at @npapjustice.bsky.social: As ICE raids continue to increase and civil rights violations rise, accountability is essential. SCOTUS gently nudged the Eleventh Circuit to join the rest of the country in allowing victims of ICE abuse to sue. Will it take the hint?

When ICE Agents Break the Law, Can Victims Sue? The Supreme Court Hints Yes. Will the Eleventh Circuit Listen? | ACS

Great piece by Lauren Bonds of @npapjustice.bsky.social about how we hold ICE officers accountable following SCOTUS's recent decision in Martin v. US. www.acslaw.org/expertforum/...

When ICE Agents Break the Law, Can Victims Sue? The Supreme Court Hints Yes. Will the Eleventh Circuit Listen? | ACS

As people face abuse from ICE & other federal law enforcement agents, we need clear paths to accountability.

But SCOTUS opted to gently nudge, rather than direct, the 11th circuit to join the rest of the country in allowing victims of federal police abuse to sue. @acslaw.bsky.social
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Police secretly monitored New Orleans with facial recognition cameras Following records requests from The Post, officials paused the first known, widespread live facial recognition program used by police in the United States.

The New Orleans Police Department is the first known police department in the U.S. to rely on a network of real-time face recognition cameras to track and arrest people as they're going about their daily lives.

New Orleans must end this dangerous surveillance program immediately.

New Orleans pushes to legalize police use of ‘facial surveillance’ The city would become first in the United States to formally allow facial recognition as a tool for surveilling residents in real time.

New Orleans is considering easing restrictions on the police use of facial recognition, weeks after The Post reported that police there secretly relied on a network of AI-powered surveillance cameras to identify suspects on the street and arrest them.

New Orleans police halt use of private facial recognition cameras for criminal probes The Washington Post found that NOPD "secretly relied" on AI-equipped facial recognition cameras. But the use of such technology contrasts with guidelines in a 2022 city ordinance.

Ain't even a slippery slope from requirements like this to facial recognition software. New Orleans been losing this same surveillance fight for over a decade.

In the interim, Judge Farmer will begin trials for some of the other 60 defendants in the Cop City RICO case.

The defense made an immediate motion appealing the retrial on the grounds of double jeopardy.

The Court of Appeals must now rule on the issue.

The earliest King's trial is expected to resume—should the appellate court rule against King—is September.

A courtroom. Judge Kevin M. Farmer sits in the back of the frame, presiding over the trial. A court reporter and clerk are visible in front and to the side of the judge. A prosecutor and screens showing the courtroom cameras sit in the foreground.

Cop City RICO: The speedy trial of Ayla King, which resumed on Monday after an 18-month delay following an appeals process and a new presiding judge, is once again headed to the Georgia Court of Appeals.

the first Cop City RICO trial starts today, two years after the indictment (a nonsensical document that sought to criminalize basic acts of mutual aid, among other things) came down. what happens to Ayla King, first of the 61 people to be tried, will impact protest everywhere.

Cop City RICO trials: Ayla King day 1 live thread

LA Protests Seem to Show That Courts Won’t Stand in the Way of Trump’s Agenda Portland’s attempts in 2020 to fight back against the deployment of federal agents offers lessons about what to expect.

How this will play out at the Supreme Court is anyone’s guess and may turn on the issue of whether that court assesses that there really was a rebellion in Los Angeles — the government’s premise for bringing in federal troops.