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Bullet casing is seen at the crime scene after at least three people were killed and 11 injured in the shooting in the busy South Street area of Philadelphia, United States on June 5, 2022. According to the initial reports, multiple people opened fire on the crowd on Saturday. (Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Republicans love gun crimes and massacre

Amanda Marcotte
Local residents place flowers near the Sandy Hook Elementary School December 15, 2012 in Sandy Hook, Connecticut for the 28 children and faculty shot and killed one day earlier on December 14, 2012. (Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)

Gun control is crucial — but not enough

Matthew Albracht
Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell attend de Grisogono Sponsors The 2005 Wall Street Concert Series Benefitting Wall Street Rising, with a Performance by Rod Stewart at Cipriani Wall Street on March 15, 2005 in New York City. (JoeSchildhorn/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

Ghislaine guilty of sex trafficking

Bob Brigham - Raw Story
A demonstrator holds a sign at the Glynn County Courthouse as jury selection begins in the trial of the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery on October 18, 2021 in Brunswick, Georgia. Three white men are accused of chasing down and murdering Arbery in southeastern Georgia last year. (Sean Rayford/Getty Images)

Ahmaud Arbery and American justice

Chauncey DeVega
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U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

AOC sponsors bipartisan weed bill

Brett Wilkins - Common Dreams
Kyle Rittenhouse, center, enters the courtroom after a break at the Kenosha County Courthouse on November 11, 2021 in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Rittenhouse is accused of shooting three demonstrators, killing two of them, during a night of unrest that erupted in Kenosha after a police officer shot Jacob Blake seven times in the back while being arrested in August 2020. Rittenhouse, from Antioch, Illinois, was 17 at the time of the shooting and armed with an assault rifle. He faces counts of felony homicide and felony attempted homicide. (Sean Krajacic-Pool/Getty Images)

If Rittenhouse walks, don't be shocked

Chauncey DeVega
Texas Governor Greg Abbott (Montinique Monroe/Getty Images)

Abbott vetoes slate of Dem-led bills

Jon Skolnik
Sonia Sotomayor and Brett Kavanaugh (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Sotomayor cites Kavanaugh — against him

Igor Derysh
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People react after the verdict was read in the Derek Chauvin trial on April 20, 2021 In Minneapolis, Minnesota. Former police officer Derek Chauvin was on trial on second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter charges in the death of George Floyd May 25, 2020.  After video was released of then-officer Chauvin kneeling on Floyd’s neck for nine minutes and twenty-nine seconds, protests broke out across the U.S. and around the world. The jury found Chauvin guilty on all three charges. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Experts react to Chauvin guilty verdict

Alexis Karteron, Jeannine Bell, Rashad Shabazz - The Conversation
OJ Adeyemi and daughter Adenike listen to people speak before they march through the streets after the verdict was announced for Derek Chauvin on April 20, 2021 in Atlanta, United States. Former police officer Derek Chauvin was on trial on second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter charges in the death of George Floyd May 25, 2020. After video was released of then-officer Chauvin kneeling on Floyds neck for nine minutes and twenty-nine seconds, protests broke out across the U.S. and around the world. The jury found Chauvin guilty on all three charges. (Megan Varner/Getty Images)

Is Chauvin verdict "justice"? Not really

Chauncey DeVega
Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, and Tucker Carlson (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The right makes Derek Chauvin a martyr

Amanda Marcotte
Young woman behind prison bars (Getty Images)

A survivor, victimized all over again

Elayne Clift
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A demonstrator holds a placard reading "ABOLISH POLICE" during a protest near the location where Walter Wallace, Jr. was killed by two police officers on October 27, 2020 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Protests erupted after the fatal shooting of 27-year-old Wallace Jr, who Philadelphia police officers claimed was armed with a knife. (Mark Makela/Getty Images)

Who keeps us safe if we abolish police?

Hari Ziyad
QAnon Shaman Jacob Chansley screams "freedom" inside the Senate chamber after the U.S. Capitol was breached by a mob during a joint session of Congress on January 06, 2021. (Win McNamee/Getty Image)

"QAnon shaman" gets organic food: report

Sky Palma - Raw Story
Joe Biden and Donald Trump (Getty Images/Salon)

Trump campaign unveils racist attack

Roger Sollenberger
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), officers arrest an undocumented Mexican immigrant during a raid (John Moore/Getty Images)

Are no-knock drug raids finally ending?

Phillip Smith - Independent Media Institute
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Lawrence Bell [right], moments after being released from East Jersey State Prison on Sunday, is greeted by his friend Ron Pierce [left], who was also incarcerated for three decades. (Photo taken by Chris Hedges)

My student comes home — after 30 years

Chris Hedges
Typing code on a laptop computer (Getty Images)

Use of algorithm serves up false charges

Stephanie Wykstra - Undark
Police pepper spray at anti-Trump protesters during clashes in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2017.  (JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)

Police unions thwarting police reform

Jill McCorkel - The Conversation
Mural of George Floyd, who died in police custody in Minneapolis (Abdulhamid Hosbas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Floyd's brother calls for people to vote

Alex Henderson - Alternet
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William Barr | Woman in a medical mask behind bars (AP Photo/Getty Images/Salon)

Policy keeps vulnerable inmates jailed

Ian Macdougall - ProPublica
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort leaves his arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court, on June 27, 2019 in New York City. (Yana Paskova/Getty Images)

Special treatment for Manafort denounced

Jon Queally - Common Dreams
Riot police officers wearing face masks stand guard as residents protest against plans for an empty local housing estate to become a temporary quarantine camp for patients and frontline medical staff of a SARS-like virus outbreak which began in the Chinese city of Wuhan, in the Fanling district in Hong Kong on January 26, 2020. - Protesters threw petrol bombs on January 26 night at an empty public housing complex in Hong Kong that had been earmarked to become a temporary quarantine zone as the city battles the outbreak of a SARS-like virus. (PHILIP FONG/AFP via Getty Images)

Policing during a pandemic

Tom Nolan - The Conversation
Michael Cohen and Michael Avenatti (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/Dennis Van Tine/STAR MAX/Salon)

Cohen and Avenatti released from prison

Roger Sollenberger
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