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Today, in response to community uprising over Minneapolis police officers’ murder of George Floyd by restraint asphyxia, Donald Trump tweeted “when the looting starts, the shooting starts.”  Mr. Trump is promoting the use of deadly force in response to property crimes, which is blatantly unconstitutional.  The United States Constitution prohibits…

This was George Floyd’s plea last night to Minneapolis Police Officers as they held him face down, with one knee on his torso and one knee on his neck.  News reports show the officers held Mr. Floyd down for over eight minutes, keeping an officer’s knee pressing on his torso…

Mendocino County, the City of Willits, and California Forensic Medical Group (CFMG) agreed make wide-ranging reforms and pay $5,000,000 to Steven Neuroth's brother after his death in the Mendocino County Jail on June 4, 2011.  The callousness shown by Willits officers, the jail nurse, and jail staff leading up to Neuroth's death has sparked outrage by