“Aside from the differing ways that various countries responded to the crisis, their inability to work together became quite evident.”
Source: Pope: Market capitalism has failed in pandemic, needs reform – POLITICO
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She Says ICE Doctor Removed Her Fallopian Tube Without Consent
Pauline Binam, a Cameroonian American woman held in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody at Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Georgia, was approached by a friend of hers, who told her a horrifying story. The young woman from Mexico had undergone surgery to remove cysts in her ovaries and, when she woke up from the procedure, the doctor had told her she could no longer have children.
Source: She Says ICE Doctor Removed Her Fallopian Tube Without Consent
Whistleblower: ICE Prison Does Hysterectomies at High Rates
The complaint, filed by the human rights group Project South, quoted a detainee from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Irwin County Detention Center saying that five women who had the procedure between October and December 2019 had told her that they “reacted confused when explaining why they had one done.” Multiple women claimed that they did not have access to proper interpreters and that medical staff often did not speak Spanish.
Source: Whistleblower: ICE Prison Does Hysterectomies at High Rates
Minnesota Cops Can Seize Your Car, Sell It And Keep The Profits, Even If You Didn’t Do Anything Wrong
Minnesota police are seizing cars from innocent people, selling the cars and keeping the proceeds under a wildly permissive civil forfeiture law supported by, you guessed it, the Minnesota Chiefs of Police Association.
Federal Court: No, You Fucking May Not Force Your Way Into A Home And Strip Search Six Very Young Children | Techdirt
As Lenore Skenazy reported for Reason last year, two government employees decided a single incident of a mother leaving her kids in the car was all the reason they needed to swing by the house and strip-search every one of her six children. The oldest was five years old. The youngest were a pair of 10-month-old twins.
Top NYPD Official Says Cops Don’t Need To Worry About Being Criminally Charged For Violating Chokehold Ban | Techdirt
“We can’t be afraid. We’ve got every D.A. come out and say they’re not going to charge that,” Chief Terence Monahan said at a recent CompStat meeting, at which department brass discuss crime trends.
Videos Show Minneapolis Cops Slashing Tires Of Medical Workers, Media And Protesters
Videos from a May 31 Black Lives Matter protest in Minneapolis, Minnesota show police officers wearing heavy tactical gear slashing the tires of multiple parked vehicles, with some officers allegedly targeting members of the media.
Source: Videos Show Minneapolis Cops Slashing Tires Of Medical Workers, Media And Protesters
NYPD Covering Badge Numbers at Protests Violate Own Policy
The National Lawyers Guild threatened to sue the city if NYPD officers did not end the widespread practice of covering their badge numbers.
Source: NYPD Covering Badge Numbers at Protests Violate Own Policy
ICE Detainee Who Died of Covid-19 Suffered Horrifying Neglect
IF THERE’S ONE thing the men locked inside the Otay Mesa Detention Center want the world to know, it’s that Carlos Ernesto Escobar Mejia didn’t need to die. The 57-year-old passed away in a southern California hospital on May 6, becoming the first person in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody to lose their life to Covid-19. The men who knew him fear that he won’t be the last.
Source: ICE Detainee Who Died of Covid-19 Suffered Horrifying Neglect
What A Coincidence! Same Day Senator Burr Dumped His Stock, So Did His Brother-in-Law! | Techdirt
Senator Richard Burr’s potential insider trading issues, for which he’s being investigated, may have gotten quite a bit worse this week. A new report notes that on the same day Burr sold off a “significant percentage” of his stock holdings (while also telling the public not to worry about COVID-19), it turns out his brother-in-law just coincidentally decided to dump a bunch of stock too. Amazing!
Source: What A Coincidence! Same Day Senator Burr Dumped His Stock, So Did His Brother-in-Law! | Techdirt