Handcuffed in the cramped lobby of the Lexington Police Department, standing eye-to-eye with the chief, Jill Collen Jefferson was given a choice. She had been arrested while filming a nighttime traffic stop in this county seat of roughly 1,500 people and four traffic signals. Pay a $35 processing fee, the chief said, and we’ll release you. Jefferson, 37, a Harvard-educated lawyer and former Obama administration speechwriter, declined Henderson’s offer to let her go if she paid the fee. “I’m going to tell the world what you’re doing here,” she vowed that day in June 2023. Here is how civil rights lawyer Jill Collen Jefferson convinced the Justice Department to investigate allegedly racist and abusive policing in tiny Lexington, Miss.
It sounds like a bell or bell to me, said a deaf person or someone who had lost their hearing a long time ago. But I maintained the keen observation as the reasoning, which is Me, or the common denominator who is not a journalist, who does not have the ease of words, or tired of arrogance or privileges, over the vulgarity of humility or poverty of ignorance, or what is worse, submission to the prevailing structures of the protocols of hegemonies for the inclusion of minorities or the categories of rough societies... How are you going to say the opposite of Harvard seal or the Obama official, if you should bow and bow, or present a request in the face of discrimination and further emphasize a request for benevolence. but outrageous not to dignity, but to pride, because not one or the other, because in the face of manifest hypocrisies, white or black, perspectives are lost in the abysses of lies and existential truths and of the purposes that strangely arise to divide in terms of acquired rights and far, more than distant, almost lost, the duties shine in the absences of the imponderables or?
Lou Coatney
3mo
Our multi-, redundant-layered law enforcement agencies too often come to think they are laws unto themselves and are vulnerable to criminal infiltration and corruption, political and otherwise. Look at Las Vegas. What America needs is a *single* national police agency - with protection from political bias like what we saw with the FBI (censorship of the Biden Burisma Holdings Ukraine corruption during Election 2020) - with high standards like what the Norwegian police have. #police #norway #norge #politi #lawenforcement #corruption #injustice #organizedcrime
Baboucarr T.
3mo
Glad you left everything there with your resounding No, hope you added heck No. The justice dept Civil Rights under AAG #Clarke & associates are jokes!
Government Affairs and Public Policy
3moIncredible courage and resilience by this woman to do what is right in the face of unjust institutional behavior. We could learn a few things from Ms. Jefferson