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Photo: Getty Images A Mississippi police department routinely discriminated against Black people, targeting them for arrest and using excessive force against them, according to the Department of Justice per HuffPost. On Thursday (September 26), the Justice Department announced the conclusion of its investigation into the police department in Lexington, a majority-Black town, which was launched … Continued

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Photo: Getty Images A Mississippi police department routinely discriminated against Black people, targeting them for arrest and using excessive force against them, according to the Department of Justice per HuffPost. On Thursday (September 26), the Justice Department announced the conclusion of its investigation into the police department in Lexington, a majority-Black town, which was launched … Continued

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  • ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    This is a strong argument for why there needs to be a federal database of police activity across the nation. This is the kind of thing that would have been flagged long ago with even the most basic statistical analysis.