Colorado police oversight bill advances, propelled by whistleblowers

Former Edgewater police officer McKinzie Rees hopes to serve and protect again, but first she must get her name removed from a so-called “bad cops list” maintained by the Colorado Attorney General’s Office. It landed there, she said, as retaliation after she reported sexual assaults by a supervising sergeant. That sergeant went on to work … Read more

Employees can legally support Black Lives Matter at work

Morales, a Home Depot employee in the Minneapolis area, had drawn the letters BLM on a work apron and refused to remove them. BLM stands for the Black Lives Matter movement, which campaigns against violence and systemic racism aimed at Black people. Morales ultimately quit because of pressure to end the use of BLM messaging. … Read more

Ex-NY Times staffer ‘received threats’ after paper outed him as editor of Tom Cotton op-ed

A former New York Times journalist who was assigned the task of editing a controversial op-ed by Sen. Tom Cotton (R.-Ark.) said he received threats after the newspaper identified him as the staffer who worked on the piece. Adam Rubenstein, who described his two-year stint at the Gray Lady as being one of a “heretic” … Read more

Denver police conduct is at center of city’s spiking lawsuit bills

All things considered, Lindsay Minter feels lucky. Lindsay Minter in Aurora on Aug. 19, 2020. (Photo by Eli Imadali/Special to The Denver Post) She only needed to have a tooth pulled after she was hit in the face with a projectile from a rubber ball grenade flung in her direction by an unidentified Denver police … Read more

Google, Meta, other tech giants cut DEI programs in 2023

AnitaB.org CEO Brenda Wilkerson speaks on a panel with Dr. Jackie Bouvier Copeland at the 2019 Grace Hopper conference. Shortly after the murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police in 2020, Google was among many tech companies that set up new programs aimed at supporting Black employees. The goal, CEO Sundar Pichai … Read more