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Restrictive covenants were put on houses that limited where black people could live, said Tauheed. These covenants, combined with discriminatory credit policies, kept black people from building wealth.
At the same time, government policies were put in place to assist whites to build wealth through housing.
‘A hot, flaming mess’: Georgia primary beset by chaos, long lines (Sparky1)
“We’ve received reports about long lines, polling sites that have opened late and broken machines,” Kristen Clarke, executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, said. The Lawyers’ Committee maintains a national voter protection hotline. “What’s disturbing is that these problems appear widespread, and not isolated.”
“It has been most disturbing to hear about voters who have given up. Voters who were not able to withstand the long wait times, voters who had one shot this morning,” she added. “Those are people who may be flatly disenfranchised.”
Officers slashed tires on vehicles parked amid Minneapolis protests, unrest (Carl)
She added these were the same officers who “were tear-gassing and shooting us with rubber bullets to try to push us farther back into the Kmart parking lot.”
Kyla Cook was with Ebertz and said “all of us were in shock” when she and others in the Kmart lot saw one member from a line of officers in riot gear knife the tires of an unattended pickup truck.
POLITICO spoke to 10 National Guardsmen who have taken part in the protest response across the country since the killing of George Floyd while in police custody. Many Guardsmen said they felt uncomfortable with the way they were used to handle the unrest because demonstrators lumped them in with the police. They felt that while they swore an oath to uphold the Constitution, their presence at times intimidated Americans from expressing their opinions and even escalated the tension.
Cops Saluted And Applauded An Officer Facing Assault Charges For Beating A Student Protester (tmn)
Bologna, 54, is facing charges of aggravated assault, simple assault, possession of an instrument of crime, and recklessly endangering another person.
The 30-year police veteran was seen in viral videos using his metal police baton to strike 21-year-old Temple University student Evan Gorski in the head and arrest him during a protest against police brutality last week.
Groceries were hard to find for millions. Now it’s getting even worse (Sparky1)
There’s also evidence that food accessibility challenges are growing. In Georgia, the number of residents now living in “food insecure” areas has jumped 69% since the beginning of the pandemic, according to data firm Urban Footprint. The firm uses an index, including jobless claims, pre-existing health conditions, and access to grocery stores and healthy food, to measure food security — or “reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritionally adequate food.”
Mortgage Servicers Are Warned A 3rd Time To Adhere To The CARES Act (newsbuoy)
Mortgage Servicers must grant forbearance to all borrowers who request it. Homeowners must also provide the servicer with attestation to a financial hardship caused by the emergency.
Servicers who fail to grant forbearance or steer borrowers away from forbearance are in violation of the Act. The CFPB warned servicers they are barred from charging any additional interest or fees. In addition, servers are also barred from negatively reporting forbearance arrangements to credit agencies.
US States See Spike in COVID-19 Hospitalizations as Lockdown Measures Lifted (Josef B.)
Florida has also seen a surge in COVID-19 hospitalizations since Governor Ron DeSantis started relaxing lockdown measures in early May. The COVID Tracking Project shows that as of Friday, there were 11,066 people in Florida who were hospitalized for the virus, compared to 10,484 on June 1.
COVID-19: Straight Answers from Top Epidemiologist Who Predicted the Pandemic (Roger B.)
One of the things we have to understand is that this virus is operating under the laws of physics, chemistry, and biology. It doesn’t in any way, shape, or form bend itself to public policy. Right now, about 5% of the US population has been infected; although it’s higher in places like New York City and some urban areas, across the world it’s about 5%.
A family suspected of being Antifa protesters was trapped on a road near their campsite, police say (Sparky1)
The family told the group they weren’t affiliated with Antifa and had to drive their bus around multiple vehicles as they left the store, police said.
As the family got on the road again, they told police they were followed by at least four vehicles — two of which seemed to be carrying passengers with semiautomatic rifles.
City Providing 24/7 Private Security For All City Council Members (thc0655)
But during the rioting and rooting, apparently every top city official felt entitled to private protection from the cops. And the city plans to drop the whole bill on the feds.
The bill for the private security is being listed as part of protest details so it will be paid for by the federal government. It’s being listed in the Daily Attendance Records System under the guise of “Justice4Floyd,” which is the code administrators are using for police response to the protests.
No masks, no water: New York protesters held in ‘abysmal’ conditions, experts say (tmn)
Despite the coronavirus pandemic, they said most police officers do not wear masks and in some cases confiscate those of protesters who are being “packed” into cells with no regard for social distancing.
Corey Stoughton, head of the special litigation unit at the Legal Aid Society, said: “We have heard from our clients who have been arrested that the conditions in the holding cells that they are held in, in many cases for 10-20 hours, are abysmal. Especially following some of the larger demonstrations and mass arrests, that there are extremely crowded conditions, that the cells are dirty and unsanitary and unsafe.”
Dr. Amir Attaran Says Canada Lags on COVID-19. What Do You Want to Ask Him? (Adam M.)
In 2001, while working for the WHO Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, Attaran co-authored a paper with Jeffrey Sachs that became the blueprint for fighting the global HIV/AIDS pandemic on a large scale.
As a lawyer, Attaran represents First Nations, human rights and environmental organizations in Canadian courts.
‘More masks than jellyfish’: Environmental groups worry about coronavirus waste in oceans (Sparky1)
Joffrey Peltier of Opération Mer Propre told the Guardian that divers have begun to notice more “COVID waste,” or masks, gloves and plastic bottles of hand sanitizer. While the quantities have not been overwhelming, “it’s the promise of pollution to come if nothing is done,” Peltier told the newspaper.
Hong Kong-based OceansAsia has also raised similar concerns as the group found dozens of masks in marine debris in the city’s uninhabited Soko Islands, the Guardian reported.
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