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Police Chief Defends Detaining Teen’s Mother After Neighbor’s Fatal Shot
by Jorge Rivas on June 14 2012, 11:15AM
After a 13-year-old boy was shot and killed in front of his Milwaukee home last month, police forced his grieving mother to sit in a squad car for more than an hour rather than let her hold her dying son or join him at the hospital.
Topics: Criminal Justice, /NOW Blog
75-Year-Old Milwaukee Man Kills Black Teen In Front of Boy’s Mother
by Jorge Rivas on June 12 2012, 9:35AM
A 75-year-old Milwaukee man pleaded not guilty Monday in the fatal shooting of his 13-year-old neighbor.
Topics: Criminal Justice, /NOW Blog
Milwaukee Journalist Eugene Kane: Black Youth Are 2011 Boogeyman
by Jorge Rivas on January 4 2012, 12:07PM
A columnist at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel says the city’s black youth are “out of control.”
Topics: /NOW Blog, Schools & Youth
Black Drivers in Milwaukee are Seven Times More Likely to be Stopped by Police
by Jorge Rivas on December 9 2011, 12:59PM
Black Milwaukee drivers are seven times more likely to be stopped by city police as a white driver. Eventhough police found contraband items in searches involving black drivers at the same rate as whites.
Topics: Criminal Justice
The $50 Billion Dollar Question in Obama’s New Jobs Proposal
by Seth Freed Wessler on September 7 2010, 4:40PM
It’s unclear exactly how jobs will be created, what kind of jobs they’ll be and for who will get them.
Topics: Economy
Obama Finally Calls Out GOP’s “Powerful Interests”
by Jamilah King on September 7 2010, 12:38PM
For the President, it’s no more mister nice guy.
Topics: Politics
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