After Cincinnati police killed Ryan Hinton with impunity, the state convicted his father Rodney Hinton Jr. of murder, completing a cycle of violence that criminalizes Black grief.
By Maya Ellison ·
Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch ruled the fatal shooting of one-year-old Kohen Wiley justified, protecting a racist police department from accountability for a killing over diapers.
By Maya Ellison ·
Philadelphia police shot and killed a man in crisis on the Ben Franklin Parkway, continuing a deadly institutional reflex that prioritizes officer safety over human life.
By Maya Ellison ·