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LDF Calls For an End to Over-Policing of Black Communities and a Transformation of Public Safety in Tulsa, Oklahoma

Today, less than one month before the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) released “We Are Not Lesser,” a report examining the pronounced disparities in Tulsa’s policing practices, including its arrests of Black youth, Black adults, and uses of force against Black Tulsans. “We Are Not […]

LDF Calls for Advancing Alternatives to Police and Community-Based Services for Black People with Mental Illness

Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), in partnership with Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, released “Advancing An Alternative to Police: Community-Based Services for Black People with Mental Illness,” a brief examining the incarceration, institutionalization, and police violence that Black people with mental illness, and all people with mental illness, face in law enforcement encounters when community-based mental health services […]

LDF Calls for Accountability in ESEA Reauthorization

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, along with a broad coalition of civil rights groups, education advocates, public rights groups, and others, sent a letter urging federal involvement in accountability through the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). This letter marks the first time that such as broad assemblage of organizations has spoken in […]

LDF Calls for a Thorough and Transparent Investigation of the Police Killing of Breonna Taylor

On March 13, 26-year-old emergency medical technician Breonna Taylor was brutally killed in her own apartment after being shot at least eight times by Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) officers, who entered her residence unannounced in the middle of the night as they executed a search warrant at the wrong home. The NAACP Legal Defense […]

LDF Calls for a Thorough and Transparent Investigation of the Baltimore School Police Officer Caught on Tape Assaulting a Young Man

The release of a shocking video showing a Baltimore school police officer slapping and kicking a young man at a city school is a distressing reminder of persistent police violence against unarmed Black youth. The NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Inc. (LDF) condemns the actions of the officer in the video and calls for a thorough and transparent […]

LDF Calls for a Full Investigation of the Police In-Custody Death of Sandra Bland

Amid disturbing allegations of police abuse and use of excessive force, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) joins calls for a full and complete investigation into the in-custody death of Sandra Bland, who was found hanging in a cell at Waller County, TX Jail on July 13, 2015.  She was only 28 […]

LDF Calls for a Fair and Impartial Trial in Marielle Franco and Anderson Gomes’ Murders

Today, a murder trial begins for Élcio Vieiria Queiroz, former law enforcement officer and Ronnie Lessa, a former military police sergeant, accused of gunning down Marielle Franco, a 38-year-old queer Black woman, human rights defender, and Rio de Janeiro city council member, and Anderson Gomes, her 39-year-old driver, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Franco’s 2018 […]

LDF Calls for a Comprehensive Federal Review of Police Killings of Unarmed African Americans

(NEW YORK, NY) –The fatal shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager by police in Ferguson, Missouri, is the latest tragic incident in a summer marked by several police-involved homicides. In this case, the conflicting accounts about why Mr. Brown was killed demand a thorough and impartial investigation by federal authorities. “These incidents erode […]

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