LDF Releases Demands to Governors, Mayors, and Police Chiefs for the Protection of Protesters

Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) released a list of demands to governors, mayors, and police chiefs for the protection of protesters. The recent killings of Black Americans, including Ahmaud Arbery, ...

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

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 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

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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

  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 Director, Lawyers’ Committee for ...

Diverse Coalition Sends Letter to Congressional Leaders Urging Swift Action in Response to Police Killings

Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) joined 385 other organizations, assembled by the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, in sending a letter to congressional leadership requesting swift and decisive action in ...

Civil Rights Leaders Call for National Day of Mourning; Demand Federal Action to Reform Police

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NEW YORK — The leaders of the nation’s leading civil rights and racial justice organizations have issued a joint statement in response to the unrest ravaging America’s cities. These leaders and their organizations are: Melanie ...

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