IN THE NEWS THIS WEEK

May 8, 2020

‘Covid Is About to Become the Newest Excuse for Police Brutality’
THE NATION
Throughout the country, police are being given new powers to enforce social distancing—and that can only mean one thing for Black people.

‘We Cannot Police Our Way Out of a Pandemic.' Experts, Police Union Say NYPD Should Not Be Enforcing Social Distance Rules Amid COVID-19’
TIME
The New York City police department (NYPD) is conducting an internal investigation into a May 2 incident in the East Village involving the violent arrests of multiple individuals, allegedly members of a group of people who were not social distancing.


‘Scrutiny of Social-Distance Policing as 35 of 40 Arrested Are Black’
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Mayor Bill de Blasio said the police had enforced rules properly, but other officials expressed concern about tactics similar to unfair “stop and frisk” practices.


‘Oregon Gov. Kate Brown Won't Release Prisoners Over COVID Risks’
OPB
The decision comes the day after Brown received the information she requested about 2,836 inmates in the custody of the Oregon Department of Correction that met criteria for possible release: inmates with approved residences, those who were older and at higher risk from the coronavirus and those set to be released in the coming weeks and months, among other requirements.


‘Fourth Terminal Island inmate dies, more than half of prisoners now have COVID-19’
LONG BEACH POST
Two more inmates have died from COVID-19 after contracting the disease at the Terminal Island federal prison in San Pedro where more than half the facility’s occupants have now tested positive for coronavirus.

‘Coronavirus kills its first female federal inmate weeks after she had an emergency C-section’
WASHINGTON POST
About a week after U.S. Marshals transferred Andrea Circle Bear from a jail in South Dakota to a federal prison in Fort Worth, the pregnant inmate was sent to a nearby hospital with a high fever…

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