Brown said 13-year-old Adam Toledo was shot at 2:38 a.m.

Ever wonder why your rent increases every year? Because our politicians are bought by real estate lobbyists like Mike Glasser. Call your representative and tell them to vote Yes on HB116 to Lift the Ban on Rent Control: bit.ly/hb116callyourr… #LiftTheBan #HB116

BREAKING: Less than a week after a Cook County prosecutor said 13-year-old Adam Toledo had a gun in his hand when he was shot, a spokeswoman for the SAO now says that prosecutor "failed to fully inform himself before speaking in court." wgntv.com/news/chicago-n…

They aren’t making errors! They are telling lies!

How it started

We’ve been looking into the ShotSpotter system in Chicago: where it’s deployed and how frequently it sends police into Black and Latinx neighborhoods on wild goose chases hunting for gunfire in vain. Here’s what we found. EndPoliceSurveillance.com 1/13

how it started how it's going

Thread: This the story of one of the most remarkable cases in U.S. history, and you’ve probably never heard of it. The story of what the U.S. government did to Ezell Gilbert is important because it explains how our legal system works as well as any case I have ever seen. (1)

Thread: When working on bail in Alabama, we found a man trapped in jail for cocaine possession because he couldn't pay $500 cash. He had been there for 3 years, and the system had forgotten to give him a lawyer. What happened to him is important. (1)

The law on absolute prosecutorial immunity needs to change. Two-thirds of wrongful convictions trace back to official misconduct. We are talking about hundreds of ppl and hundreds of years. Enough already. It is long past time to call B.S.

In which the justices learn that a Guantanamo detainee has had a habeas petition pending for 14 years: supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments…

THREAD: Yesterday, the New York Times published a headline it knew was false. The implications of this are dangerous for everyone who cares about an informed public. Here’s what happened:

I have never in my life seen a police officer beat a pallbearer, which is something you can clearly see happen in this video.

A decade of GOP-led budget cuts decimated the IRS's ability to conduct audits of the wealthiest Americans and go through a swelling backlog of paper returns. Ron Wyden recently compared Republicans to "the guy in the hot dog suit" businessinsider.com/senate-dem-rep…

you can read the whole story free on the Amazon preview - very weird that a herd of freed mink are in the news this week a.co/d/dIo7a7C

Anyone who is shocked to learn that tweets can get you indicted on RICO charges has clearly not been paying attention to what prosecutors do to Black teenagers daily. See, eg, bronx120.report/the-report

1/ Under the Joe Coleman Medical Release Act, IL prisoners can request early release if they’re terminally ill or medically incapacitated. But our investigation w/ WBEZ found fewer prisoners have been released under the law than expected. injusticewatch.org/news/prisons-a…