By The Sacramento Bee Editorial Board Crossing into the U.S. illegally is not a capital crime. Yet since 2010, some 20 people have been fatally shot by Border Patrol agents along the U.S.-Mexico border. The head of the Border Patrol has taken the correct and necessary step of making clear to his agents that using…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is helping investigate a disturbing finding – a noose and Confederate flag were found on a statue of the first black student at the University of Mississippi, the New York Times reports. Authorities are searching for two men who are believed to have committed the act of vandalism early Sunday…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI has finally confirmed that a civil rights activist who disappeared while supporting Native Americans in South Dakota four decades was murdered, the Buffalo News reports. Roy Robinson went missing after arriving at Wounded Knee to support the American Indian Movement’s fight against the federal government. The discovery wasn’t easy for…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com In a move to address decades of concerns about the protection of civil rights, the Justice Department plans to expand its definition of racial profiling to alleviate discrimination by religion, nationality, gender and sexual orientation, the New York Times reports. Although the Bush administration banned racial profiling in 2003, it provided exclusions…
By Editorial Board The Arizona Republic You might shrug off concerns about how the Border Patrol operates. After all, it’s just the border. Migrants. Smugglers. Lawbreakers. It’s not about you and me. Well, yes it is. We hold police to high standards to protect everyone’s civil rights. Exempting the nation’s largest police force…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Two Border Patrol agents have been sentenced to two years in prison after forcing suspected trafficking to eat marijuana and run around the Arizona desert, RT reports. The agents, Dario Castillo, 25, and Ramon Zuniga, 31, were convicted of violating the civil rights of four Mexican men who were in the U.S….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Civil rights supporters are calling for the FBI and Justice Department to reopen the investigation into the 1985 killing of a prominent Palestinian American leader, Democracy Now reports. Alex Odeh was killed by a powerful pipe bomb placed at the offices of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination in Santa Ana, Calif., where he served…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Charleston civil rights supporters are calling for an investigation into a “troubling and outrageous trend” lethal police force against black men, the Post and Courier reports. Don Scott, president of the city’s NAACP, said Saturday’s shooting of a black man is one of four police-involved shootings since March 2012. Scott said officers…
