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Civil Rights Coalition Sends Letters to U.S. Attorney General Asking for Investigations into Minneapolis and Louisville Police Departments

Yesterday, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) joined a coalition of civil rights organizations, organized by the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, in sending letters to U.S. Attorney General William P. Barr ...

LDF, the Legal Aid Society Demand that Officers Stop Concealing Their Shield Numbers

Read a PDF of our statement here.

 Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and The Legal Aid Society (LAS) sent a letter to the New York City Law Department, demanding that the New York City Police Department (NYPD) ...

Stop-and-Frisk Attorneys Ask for Investigation into NYPD’s Social Distancing Enforcement Practices to Include Curfew Enforcement

Read a PDF of our statement here.

Today, the attorneys behind two class action lawsuits that challenged the New York City Police Department (NYPD)’s stop-and-frisk and trespass enforcement practices as racially discriminatory and unconstitutional filed a supplemental submission, asking for an investigation ...

Watch: Civil Rights Leaders Call For National Day Of Mourning; Demand Federal Action To Reform Police

[video width="640" height="360" mp4="https://www.naacpldf.org/wp-content/uploads/GMT20200601-183635_CIVIL-RIGH_640x360.mp4"][/video]   The leaders of this virtual press conference and their organizations are: Melanie L. Campbell, President and CEO of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation Kristen Clarke, President and Executive ...