MSR editor Jasmine McBride connects the 35-year sentence handed to Karmelo Anthony in Texas, the continued trauma of Diamond Reynolds a decade after Philando Castile’s murder and the fight for the Marvina Haynes Act at the Minnesota Capitol, tracing a through line of racial injustice that demands repair.
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Bill targets cash bail’s racial disparity
Minnesota cash bail reform legislation would eliminate wealth-based detention in favor of an intentional release and detain approach as advocates say Black Minnesotans make up 36 percent of the pretrial jail population.
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The night everything changed — for me and for us
Elizer Darris recounts the moment he learned of George Floyd’s death, the video that changed his life, and the movement it sparked in him and so many others.
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Enforcement of Hardel Sherrell Act called ‘poor’
Hardell Sherrell died in 2018 due to medical neglect at the Beltrami County Jail, and former director of nursing Michelle Skroch has been charged with manslaughter and medical neglect.