LAST NOVEMBER, on the day after Thanksgiving, yet another Black man was wrongfully arrested due to racially biased face surveillance. Randall Reid was detained on his way to dinner with his mother after Louisiana law enforcement agents got a warrant based on a false facial recognition match. He spent a week in jail. Mr. Reid […]
Liz Miranda
Posted inCriminal Justice
Gov. Baker: Sign the police reform bill
State Rep. Liz Miranda and Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins sent the following letter today to Gov. Charlie Baker Dear Governor Baker, AS THE STATE representative that authored the provision to limit no-knock warrants and the chief law enforcement officer of Suffolk County, we strongly urge you to sign into law S.2963, An Act relative […]
Posted inOpinion
Baker not doing enough on environmental justice
ONE EVENING IN 2007, Chelsea, East Boston, Roxbury, and Dorchester residents packed Chelsea High School auditorium with signs that read “Clean Air is a Human Right” and “Got Asthma?” They assembled to fight back against a proposed diesel power plant, to be sited 250 feet from Chelsea’s only elementary school complex and on the banks […]