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July 9, 2016

Legal Experts Raise Alarm over Shocking Use of 'Killer Robot' in Dallas

Nadia Prupis Common Dreams

Cohn said, "The same way that the Obama administration uses unmanned drones in other countries to kill people instead of arresting them and bringing them to trial, we see a similar situation here....

July 9, 2016

Basic Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms by Law Enforcement Officials

United Nations United Nations Human Rights Office

Adopted by the Eighth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, Havana, Cuba, 27 August to 7 September 1990

July 9, 2016

Police Use of Deadly Force: State Statues 30 Years after Garner

Chad Flanders and Joseph C. Welling Saint Louis University Law Journal

Reading the majority opinion in Garner is a bracing experience. Justice White’s extended discussion of the common law standard of police use of force makes clear on many levels that he did not merely want to replace the common law rule: he wanted to bury it.That police could use any amount of force, including deadly force, to “seize” a fleeing felon—the common law rule which at issue in Garner—was not only constitutionally infirm, it made little sense as a policy matter.

July 9, 2016

Autism’s Race Problem: Bias in Research, Diagnosis and Treatment

Carrie Arnold Pacific Standard Magazine

For years, the medical community has treated autism as if it was a “white person’s” disease. Research and therapy have been geared toward affluent, white people and families, creating serious racial and ethnic disparities in all areas of autism. The autism community has made tremendous strides in educating the general public about neurodiversity and the ways different brains work. It needs to make a similar effort to embrace the racial diversity of people with autism.

July 8, 2016

Friday Nite Videos -- July 8, 2016

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Officer Nakia Jones Talks About the Alton Sterling Shooting. Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Why We Need to Stop the TPP. How the Cannabis Business Community Pays Taxes. Gretchen Carlson Is Suing Fox News' CEO. This Might Be Why. This Farm of the Future Uses No Soil and 95% Less Water.