WNYC reporter Sarah Abdurrahman is detained at the border along with multiple family members, and is now filing an official complaint
See on colorlines.com
Corruption
TO FAST FOOD CEOS: YOUR WORKERS SHOULDN’T NEED FOOD STAMPS (petition)
I know I’ve posted quite a few petitions about fast food workers and the minimum wage. I do so because I think it’s so important that people who work hard get treated with respect and dignit…
Community Village‘s insight:
If companies do not pay their workers fairly, then us, the tax payers, will make up the difference in their salary by subsidizing the cost of their grocery bill with food stamps and the cost of their health care bill with — subsidized health care payments.
It seems like a popular business model in the U.S. is to pay your emplyees so low that the government picks up part of the cost of taking care of the emloyee’s basic needs.
Women Sue for Humiliating Vaginal Search From State Troopers (Video)
UPDATE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1FVZEpYiLI “A Texas woman and her niece are suing a pair of Texas state troopers and the director of the Texas Depart…
Community Village‘s insight:
Like Cenk Uygur says, what’s the greater violation, being felt up and raped or possessing a joint of marijuana?
The is another example of the “freedom and liberty” we have in the U.S.
The police have the “freedom and liberty” to violate citizens.
See on www.youtube.com
Police beating caught on video
A Long Beach Police officer seen beating an unarmed man remains on duty while the department looks into the incident.
See on edition.cnn.com
Police Plant Drugs and Frame an Innocent African American Shop-Owner in New York [VIDEO]
“ColorLines today carried a local news report from Schenectady County in New York of a local police department using undercover agents to purposely plant crack-cocaine in the shop of an African American business owner, with the intention of hauling him off to prison for up to seven years for a crime he did not even commit.”
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Community Village‘s insight:
I wonder how many prisoners are incarcerated due to drugs being planted on them?
See on ushypocrisy.com