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The Pulitzer Prize winners were announced yesterday, amazingly there were two novels chosen for the award for fiction.
Pulitzer Awards for Books, Drama and Music
Fiction
"Demon Copperhead," by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper)
"Trust," by Hernan Diaz (Riverhead Books)
Finalist:
"The Immortal King Rao," by Vauhini Vara (W. W. Norton & Company)
Drama
"English," by Sanaz Toossi
Finalists:
"On Sugarland," by Aleshea Harris
"The Far Country," by Lloyd Suh
History
"Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power," by Jefferson Cowie (Basic Books)
Finalists:
"Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America," by Michael John Witgen (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture/University of North Carolina Press)
"Watergate: A New History," by Garrett M. Graff (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)
Biography
"G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century," by Beverly Gage (Viking)
Finalists:
"His Name is George Floyd," by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa (Viking)
"Mr. B: George Balanchine’s 20th Century," by Jennifer Homans (Random House)
Memoir or Autobiography
"Stay True," by Hua Hsu (Doubleday)
Finalists:
"Easy Beauty: A Memoir," by Chloé Cooper Jones (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)
"The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir," by Ingrid Rojas Contreras (Doubleday)
Poetry
"Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020," by Carl Phillips (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Finalists:
"Blood Snow," by dg nanouk okpik (Wave Books)
"Still Life," by the late Jay Hopler (McSweeney’s)
General Nonfiction
"His Name is George Floyd," by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa (Viking)
Finalists:
"Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern," by Jing Tsu (Riverhead Books)
"Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution’s Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction," by David George Haskell (Viking)
"Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation," by Linda Villarosa (Doubleday)
Music
"Omar," by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels
Finalists:
"Monochromatic Light (Afterlife)," by Tyshawn Sorey
"Perspective," by Jerrilynn Patton
#pulitzer prize#books#award winners#barbara kingsolver#demon copperhead#trust#hernan diaz#harper books#riverhead books#g-man#beverly gage#stay true#hua hsu#his name is george floyd#robert samuels#toluse olorunnipa#viking books#doubleday books
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A Black couple have sued the city of Beverly Hills, alleging their arrest was part of a campaign by its police to arrest Black people for trivial reasons and at disproportionate rates.
The couple’s lawyers, Bradley Gage and Benjamin Crump, said the Beverly Hills police last year set up a task force — dubbed Operation Safe Streets and the Rodeo Drive Task Force — that arrested 106 people, 105 of whom were Black and one of whom was Latino. Gage said the sources of the arrest figures were unidentified retired Beverly Hills police officers who were appalled by the task force’s actions and so shared with him the alleged racial breakdown of who had been arrested.
The impetus for the task force, Gage said, was both the protests over the death of George Floyd and what Beverly Hills police believed were transactions at retail stores using suspected proceeds of unemployment benefit fraud. Gage described the Police Department’s approach to rooting out suspected fraud as, “Gee, that’s suspicious — Black people shopping in Beverly Hills.”
Gage and Crump, who has represented the families of Floyd, Breonna Taylor and others killed by police, raised their allegations Wednesday on the steps of Beverly Hills City Hall. “There is something terribly wrong here,” Gage said, citing what he called the city’s legacy of biased policing.
Gage and Crump are seeking class-action status for their lawsuit, which was filed Monday in Los Angeles County Superior Court. The only named plaintiffs are the couple, who were arrested on suspicion of riding scooters on a sidewalk and resisting arrest; it does not appear that Gage or Crump has identified the 104 other people who they contend were arrested.
In a statement, Police Chief Dominick Rivetti said his department created a “Rodeo Drive Team” in response to complaints by businesses and a rise in burglaries, shoplifting, “street gambling, public intoxication, marijuana smoking and more.” The team seized 13 firearms carried by people on Rodeo Drive, said Rivetti, who called this “unprecedented in the history of Beverly Hills.”
Rivetti said the Rodeo Drive unit rooted out fraudulently obtained state unemployment benefits, seizing $250,000 in cash and ill-gotten debit cards. Most of the people arrested by the unit were not California residents, Rivetti said, but they nonetheless possessed debit cards loaded with state funds.
The Times asked the Beverly Hills police for a total number and breakdown by race of the people arrested by the Rodeo Drive unit. Capt. Max Subin, a department spokesman, said officials were gathering the figures Wednesday and would provide them once they had finished.
Gage and Crump on Wednesday highlighted the experience of the Black couple, Khalil White and Jasmine Williams of Philadelphia, who said they were visiting Beverly Hills on vacation in September when they were stopped, arrested and eventually jailed by police.
As five officers handcuffed White, Williams said, she asked an officer for her purse to retrieve their hotel key. Two officers pushed her to a police car, handcuffed her and took her to jail, she said.
“I was scared,” Williams said. “I’ve never been to jail in my life.”
White, who said he was jailed overnight and forced to post a $25,000 bond, was charged in Los Angeles County Superior Court with resisting arrest and falsely identifying himself to police. Williams was charged with falsely identifying herself to police. The charges were dismissed in February, records show.
Crump and Gage alleged that White and Williams’ arrests were part of a campaign to target Black people in the city through its recently formed task force.
The Beverly Hills police “had made up their mind that this Black man was going to jail because this is Operation Safe Streets,” Crump said.
In his statement, Rivetti said police had warned White and Williams earlier the day of their arrest that it was illegal to ride a scooter on the sidewalk, without taking action against the couple. In their second encounter with police, White and Williams provided officers with false information, Rivetti said.
“Our department’s practice is to contact and question individuals when we believe they may be involved in criminal activity or another violation of the law,” he said.
Beverly Hills officials faced criticism last summer for insisting on charging protesters with misdemeanor curfew violations; by comparison, prosecutors for the city and county of Los Angeles declined to charge similarly minor violations of curfews and dispersal orders.
In a summary of the Beverly Hills protests, a police sergeant wrote that for residents who survived the Holocaust and Iranian revolution, the demonstrations over Floyd’s death were “not merely an intrusion of their peace” but “a terrifying reminder of their past.”
The department’s previous chief, Sandra Spagnoli, retired in 2020, beset by allegations that she made racist comments and had sex with subordinates who were later promoted. Spagnoli denied the claims, which she said were raised by disgruntled employees, but the city paid out millions of dollars to settle many of the lawsuits. Gage, who represented several officers who sued Spagnoli, estimated at the time that the city paid about $8 million in settlements, attorney fees and other costs.
#hollywood#racial profiling#hollywood pd#los angeles#ben crump#Black Lives Matter#Beverly Hills accused of creating police task force that disproportionately arrested Black people#beverly hills racial profiling#Black LIves are Over Policed
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Hoover was not above blackmail and intimidation, but he also embodied conservative values ranging from anticommunism to white supremacy to a crusading and politicized interpretation of Christianity. This garnered him the admiration of millions of Americans. He stayed in office for so long because many people, from the highest reaches of government down to the grassroots, wanted him there and supported what he was doing, thus creating the template that the political right has followed to transform its party.
Publications Yale Department of History. G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage
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A gorgeous day in Beverly Hills I very looking our stunning city hall. The building was designed by architects William J. Gage and Harry G. Koerner in the California Churrigueresque style, a type of Spanish Revival architecture in 1932. #Beverly Hills #cityhall #lovebevhills (at Beverly Hills, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjylWXxP3x1/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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On this day in Wikipedia: Monday, 4th March
Welcome, laipni lūdzam, velkommen, vitajte 🤗
What does @Wikipedia say about 4th March through the years 🏛️��🗓️?
4th March 2023 🗓️ : Death - Phil Batt
Phil Batt, American soldier and politician, 29th Governor of Idaho (b. 1927)
"Philip Eugene Batt (March 4, 1927 – March 4, 2023) was an American politician who served as the 29th Governor of Idaho from 1995 to 1999. A member of the Republican Party, Batt had previously served as the 35th Lieutenant Governor of Idaho, Chair of the Idaho Republican Party, and as a member of the..."
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4th March 2019 🗓️ : Death - Luke Perry
Luke Perry, American actor (b. 1966)
"Coy Luther "Luke" Perry III (October 11, 1966 – March 4, 2019) was an American actor. He became a teen idol for playing Dylan McKay on the Fox television series Beverly Hills, 90210 from 1990 to 1995, and again from 1998 to 2000. Perry also starred as Fred Andrews on the CW series Riverdale. He had..."
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4th March 2014 🗓️ : Death - Wu Tianming
Wu Tianming, Chinese director and producer (b. 1939)
"Wu Tianming (simplified Chinese: 吴天明; traditional Chinese: 吳天明; pinyin: Wú Tiānmíng; December 5, 1939 – March 4, 2014) was a Chinese film director and producer who was considered one of the leading "Fourth Generation" directors. ..."
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4th March 1974 🗓️ : Birth - Bill Young (rugby union)
Bill Young, Australian rugby player
"Bill Young (born 4 March 1974, in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian former professional rugby union footballer. He played rugby for the Brumbies in the international Super Rugby competition and played for Australia over 40 times...."
4th March 1924 🗓️ : Birth - Kenneth O'Donnell
Kenneth O'Donnell, American soldier and politician (d. 1977)
"Kenneth Patrick O'Donnell (March 4, 1924 – September 9, 1977) was an American political consultant and the special assistant and appointments secretary to President John F. Kennedy from 1961 until Kennedy's assassination in November 1963. O'Donnell was a close friend of President Kennedy and his..."
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4th March 1824 🗓️ : Event - Royal National Lifeboat Institution
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution, a charity that saves lives at sea around the coasts of the British Isles, was founded as the National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck by author and philanthropist William Hillary.
"The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) is the largest of the lifeboat services operating around the coasts of the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man, as well as on some inland waterways. Founded in 1824 as the National Institution for the..."
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4th March 🗓️ : Holiday - Christian feast day: Adrian of Nicomedia
"Adrian of Nicomedia (also known as Hadrian) or Saint Adrian (Greek: Ἁδριανὸς Νικομηδείας, romanized: Adrianos Nikomēdeias, died 4 March 306) was a Herculian Guard of the Roman Emperor Galerius Maximian. After becoming a convert to Christianity with his wife Natalia (Ναταλία), Adrian was martyred at..."
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Les substances interdites ont provoqué des scandales et des perturbations dans les concerts de Parker
Charlie a développé une réputation de musicien peu fiable. Pour une dose de « médicament », Parker jouait dans la rue pour demander l'aumône ou mettait son saxophone en gage dans un prêteur sur gages.
En 1948, Charlie enregistre son mariage avec Doris Green, qui, après la mort du saxophoniste, devient la veuve officielle de Parker. Cependant, la véritable épouse du musicien au cours des 5 dernières années de la vie de l’homme était Beverly Dorothy Berg, connue sous le pseudonyme de Chan.
Charlie a rencontré une jolie jeune fille juive de 18 ans qui travaillait comme danseuse dans une boîte de nuit en 1943, mais le gars et la fille sont restés longtemps amis. La belle a réussi à donner naissance à une fille, Kim, d'un autre musicien de jazz et était mariée à un autre jazzman nommé Richardson avant de se réunir avec Parker.
Chan a donné naissance aux deux enfants de Charlie, un fils, Baird, et une fille, Pri. La mort du bébé au début de 1954, à l'âge de trois ans, fut un coup dur pour Parker et le renvoya à la dépendance à l'héroïne dont il s'était débarrassé. Charlie a survécu à deux tentatives de suicide.
Chan décrit sa vie personnelle dans le livre « My Life in E Flat », qui a servi de base au biopic de Clint Eastwood « Bird ». Le rôle de Parker dans le film biographique a été joué par Forest Whitaker.
La vie du jazzman s'achève le 12 mars 1955 à l'hôtel Stanhope dans des chambres louées par la baronne Pannonica de Koenigswarter. La plus jeune fille du banquier et entomologiste Charles Rothschild a fréquenté Parker.
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idk i'm reading g man by beverly gage and i think it's just an angle i'm not interested in. like she's taking j edgar hoover's life and career as "how did he end up building the surveillance state and end up as such a controversial highly conservative figure by the end of his career" but like. i am far more interested in how he shaped the country around him. like i don't really care abt how one man developed his own values i want to know how one man's values helped shape the entire federal government for 2 generations u feel
#idk it's a valid angle to go at ig but it's just boring to me#political biographies are as much if not more about the arc of a country than an individual man's racist fraternity turning him racist#maybe it'll get better. but idk
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"OPEN COMMANDO OFFICE TO HELP PROVIDE LABOUR," Hamilton Spectator. May 26, 1943. Page 7 & 11.
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Active Assistance to Farmers Aim of Committee Now Registering Workers
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Bureau Located at City Hall Serves as Medium For Solving Problem
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The Farm Commando Service of Wentworth County has been organized with an office in the City Hall and plans for active assistance to farmers are well advanced. Needs of the rural communities for extra labour are generally recognized and present indications are that a loyal body of Hamiltonians will respond to the appeal and render service to make it possible for this part of the country to return the greatest yield to meet the crisis.
The office in the City Hall will be on the ground floor, known as the aldermen's room, and here a full-time official, whose services have been given by the Ontario Department of Agriculture, will be in charge. This office will be a busy spot, it is expected, and it will remain open as long as there is need for assistance, Persons willing to work in the country are asked to register and farmers who need help will make known their wants there, the headquarters serving as a clearing house for meeting the pressing labour problem.
Service Force Active
W. B. Powell is chairman of the Commando Service and D. M. Park is secretary. The undertaking is being given, staunch support. With greater food production more essential than ever before several disappointing factors have been experienced which threaten to reduce the normal yield, It was pointed out to-day. The backward season with unusual rainfall has made it Impossible for farmers to get on, the land and when the break in the weather does come the producers will experience a rush season. This will necessitate the use of a great force of workers if the maximum effort is to be achieved. Across the sea the men in uniform and the civilian populations are depending upon Canada to share the responsibility of maintaining food supplies, so the Dominion will have to produce amounts greatly in excess of home requirements to meet the export needs.
County Meetings Arranged
Last year the volunteers rendered valuable service on the farms and, with the need more urgent now, it is expected that their numbers will be greatly increased. The workers are inexperienced, but there are important Jobs which they can do and the Commando Service is anxious that every avail- able person be registered for the important task ahead. Meetings at which the labour problem will be discussed have been arranged for farmers of Wentworth at the following centres:
May 27, 8. p.m., Saltfleet, at Institute hall, Stoney Creek: May 28, 8 p.m., Beverly, at Township hall, Rockton; June 1, 8 p.m., East Flamboro, Community hall, Car lisle; June 2, 8 p.m., Glanford, Community hall, Mount Hope; June 3, 8 p.m., Binbrook, Memorial hall, Binbrook; June 4, 8 p.m., Ancaster, Township hall, Ancaster; June 2, 8 p.m., Barton, Gage Avenue school.
#hamilton#wentworth county#farm workers#high school students#ontario farm service force#harvest time#farming in canada#farm commandos#mobilization of youth#manpower shortage#canada during world war 2
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Antonio Velardo shares: 6 New Paperbacks to Read This Week by Shreya Chattopadhyay
By Shreya Chattopadhyay
Including titles by Haruki Murakami, Dipo Faloyin, Beverly Gage and more.
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IAM Programs 2023-24
Holly Harris/Jason Chan 🇦🇺AUS
RD: Madonna, Material Girl, Into the Groove, Express Yourself
FD: Colossal Trailer Music, Ocean Lullaby; Christian Reindl, Lucie Paradis, Gefion, Freya; Christian Reindl, Lucie Paradis, Power-Haus, Vale
choreo: Marie-France Dubreuil
Alicia Fabbri/Paul Ayer 🇨🇦CAN
RD: AC/DC, Back in Black, Hells Bells, You Shook Me All Night Long
FD: keeping FD from last season- Lewis Capaldi: Someone You Loved
choreo: Zachary Donohue RD, Marie-France Dubrueil FD
Laurence Fournier-Beaudry/Nikolaj Soerensen 🇨🇦CAN
RD: Top Gun - Harold Faltemeyer, Top Gun Anthem; Kenny Loggins, Playing with the Boys; Berlin, Take My Breath Away; Miami Sound Machine, Hot Summer Nights; Kenny Loggins, Danger Zone
FD: Notre Dame de Paris - Mario Pelchat, Danse Mon Esmerelda- Acoustic; Monks of the Abbey of Notre Dame, Final Angelus Bells; Noa, Ave Maria Paien; Cirque du Soleil, Les Sans-Papiers; Garou, Danse Mon Esmerelda
choreo: Marie-France Dubreuil, Romain Haguenauer, Ginette Cournoyer, Samuel Chouinard
Sandrine Gauthier/Quentin Thieren 🇨🇦CAN
RD: Joan Jett, I Love Rock n Roll; Def Leppard, Pour Some Sugar on Me; Twisted Sister, I Wanna Rock
FD: Game of Thrones
choreo:
Marjorie Lajoie/Zachary Lagha 🇨🇦CAN
RD: Michael Jackson, Thriller
FD: Jean-Michel Blais, Roses
choreo: Romain Haguenauer, Ginette Cournoyer
Marie-Jade Lauriault/Romain LeGac 🇨🇦CAN
RD: INXS, Need You Tonight, Never Tear Us Apart, Devil Inside
FD: Danny Elfman, Corpse Bride
choreo: Marie-France Dubreuil, Romain Haguenauer, Sam Chouinard, Ginette Cournoyer
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RD: Les Rita Mitsouko, Andy, Marcia Baïla
FD: Muse, Exogenesis Symphony part 3
choreo: Marie-France Dubreuil
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RD: Falco, Rock Me Amadeus
FD: LP, Forever for Now, The One That You Love
choreo: Marie-France Dubreuil
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RD: Run-DMC, Walk This Way; Salt ‘n Peoa, Push It
FD: Tems, No Woman No Cry; Rihanna, Lift Me Up
Evgeniia Lopareva/Geoffrey Brissaud 🇫🇷FRA
RD: Myléne Farmer, Sans Contrefaçon, Tristana
FD: Rachmaninoff, Elegie in eb minor, Prelude in c# minor
choreo: Romain Haguenauer RD, Guillaume Cizeron FD
Lilah Fear/Lewis Gibson 🇬🇧GBR
RD: Eurhythmics, Sweet Dreams, Here Comes the Rain Again
FD: Rocky
choreo: Romain Haguenauer, Samuel Chouinard, Ginette Cournoyer
Misato Komatsubara/Tim Koleto 🇯🇵JPN
RD: Ghostbusters
FD: Loving You (from Passion) Barbara Streisand & Patrick Wilson; Love Grows (from Final Fantasy VIII) Nobuo Uematsu (choreo: Romain Haguenauer)
choreo: Romain Haguenauer, Marie-France Dubreuil, Ginette Cournoyer, Sam Chouinard, Eva Airapetian
Azusa Tanaka/Shingo Nishiyama 🇯🇵JPN
RD: Super Mario Bros.
FD: Giselle
choreo: Romain Haguenauer
Hannah Lim/Ye Quan 🇰🇷KOR
RD: Prince, When Doves Cry, Let's Go Crazy
FD: Umbrellas of Cherbourg
choreo: Romain Haguenauer RD, Marie-France Dubreuil FD
Allison Reed/Saulius Ambrulevicius 🇱🇹LTU
RD: Guns n' Roses, Welcome to the Jungle, Paradise City
FD: Son Lux, Enough of Our Machines; Tokio Myers, Children
choreo: Marie-France Dubreuil, Sam Chouinard
Olivia Smart/Tim Dieck 🇪🇸ESP
RD: Blondie, Call Me, Rapture
FD: Strauss, Also Sprach Zarathustra; Elvis Presley, Fever
choreo: Marie-France Dubreuil, Romain Haguenauer
Kayleigh Macsymek/Felix Desmarais 🇨🇭SUI
RD: Beverly Hills Cop - Harold Faltermeyer, Axel F; Corey Hart, Hold On; Glenn Frey, The Heat is On
Mariia Holubtsova & Kyryl Bielobrov 🇺🇦UKR
RD: Bonnie Tyler, Holding out for a Hero; Bonnie Tyler, Bryan Adams, Straight From the Heart; Bonnie Tyler, Desmond Child, If I Were a Woman (and You Were a Man)
FD: Joe Hisaishi, Merry Go Round of Life, Fragile Dream, A Walk in the Skies (Howl's Moving Castle)
choreo: Romain Haguenauer, Pascal Denis, Sam Chouinard
Oona Brown/Gage Brown 🇺🇸USA
RD: Elton John, This Town, Satellite, I'm Still Standing
FD: Eric Carmen, All By Myself
choreo: Patrice Lauzon, Romain Haguenauer, Joel Dear
Madison Chock/Evan Bates 🇺🇸USA
RD: Queen, Another One Bites the Dust, Who Wants to Live Forever, I Want it All
FD: Pink Floyd, Time, Breathe, Eclipse
choreo: Marie-France Dubreuil
Kaitlin Hawayek/Jean-Luc Baker 🇺🇸USA
RD: U2, With or Without You
FD: Fred Again, Kyle (Northern Line); Charles LeClerc, AUS23 (1:1)
choreo: Marie-France Dubreuil, Kaitlin Hawayek, Jean-Luc Baker
Sara Kishimoto/Atsuhiko Tamura 🇯🇵JPN jrs
RD: Styx, Mr.Roboto
FD: keeping FD from last season - Pulp Fiction
choreo: Romain Haguenauer, Sam Chouinard, Ginette Cournoyer, Eva Airapetian
Jamie Fournier/Everest Zhu 🇨🇦CAN jrs
RD: Soft Cell, Frustration, Seedy Films, Tainted Love
FD: Damien Rice, The Blower's Daughter; Melanie Laurent feat. Damien Rice, Uncomfortable
choreo: Romain Haguenauer
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/09/03/beverly-hills-police-lawsuit/
A Beverly Hills police task force arrested 106 people. All but one were Black, lawsuit claims.
Beverly Hills Police targeted Black people with harassment and arrest for low-level or nonexistent violations in an effort to keep them away from Rodeo Drive, according to a class-action racial discrimination lawsuit filed in California Superior Court Monday by civil rights attorneys Ben Crump and Bradley Gage.
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The complaint centers on the Beverly Hills Police Department’s “Operation Safe Streets,” a campaign to address safety on the city’s famed luxury shopping destination of Rodeo Drive.
The suit claims that between March 2020 and July 2021, the task force made 106 arrests — 105 of whom were of Black people.
“If 2 percent of the residents of Beverly Hills are Black but almost 100 percent of the arrests are Black [people,] that’s a pretty clear indication something’s wrong,” Gage told The Washington Post Thursday.
“The women and men of BHPD take an oath to protect human life and enforce the law — regardless of race,” Beverly Hills Police Chief Dominick Rivetti said in a statement Wednesday. “Any violation of this pledge is contrary to the values of this department. We take all concerns regarding the conduct of our officers very seriously.“
During a Wednesday news conference announcing the lawsuit, Crump — the attorney best-known for representing the family of George Floyd — framed the alleged racial bias in Beverly Hills as a national scourge that has led to the death or injury of people whose names are now synonymous with racially biased and violent policing.
“If implicit bias goes unchecked and discrimination goes unchecked, it leads to what happened to George Floyd in Minneapolis; what happened to Breonna Taylor in Louisville; what happened to Jacob Blake Jr. in Kenosha, Wis.,” he said. “That’s what happens if the actions of the Beverly Hills Police Department goes unchecked.”
Rivetti in his Wednesday statement said he formed the “Rodeo Drive Team” to address complaints from businesses about a rise in burglary, shoplifting and nuisances such as public intoxication. Rivetti touted the success of the task force, noting that officers arrested individuals with “fraudulently obtained state unemployment benefits” and seizing $250,000 in cash and “ill-gotten debit cards.”
The police did not respond to The Post’s request for the number of arrests or their racial breakdown.
Gage said his team corroborated the figure through a variety of sources, including Beverly Hills police officers who were troubled by the trend that resulted from the 16-month safety operation.
The more than 100 arrestees were cited for a range of noncriminal behaviors such as roller skating or riding a scooter on the sidewalk to low-level infractions such as jaywalking. None of the same behaviors and infractions were enforced against White people, the lawsuit claims.
“The way [police] stop them for trivial things is troubling as well,” Gage said, alleging that Black people questioned by police would face four or five officers or have guns drawn on them. “White people don’t have that.”
The two named plaintiffs in the suit were not California residents but visiting from Philadelphia. During a visit to Beverly Hills last September, Khalil White and Jasmine Williams were arrested while riding scooters on the sidewalk and jailed for resisting arrest. The charges, like most of those that stemmed from the operation, were dropped.
The lawsuit claims that other incidents with police did not end in arrest but indicate a pattern of harassment and over-policing of Black people. Salehe Bembury, then the vice president of men’s footwear at Versace, was allegedly jaywalking and holding two shopping bags from his store last October when police stopped him, asked for his ID and ran his name for warrants.
Bembury filmed the encounter, which went viral.
“So I’m in Beverly Hills and I’m getting … searched for shopping at the store I work for and just being Black,” he said in an Instagram video.
“You’re making a completely different narrative,” a BHPD officer said in response.
The current iteration of the lawsuit focuses on the outcome of Operation Safe Streets, but Gage expects it will broaden to encompass a wider review of discriminatory policing by BHPD and expects the class of complainants to grow tenfold.
“I don’t think Ben or I have had five minutes since the press conference that we haven’t received phone calls. I’ve been getting them since midnight,” Gage said. Since Wednesday, he estimates the legal team has received at least 100 new complaints of racial profiling in traffic stops and other claims of discrimination from around the same period as Operation Safe Streets.
#beverly hills#racial profiling#cops are thugs#Black Lives Matter#california racism#A Beverly Hills police task force arrested 106 people. All but one were Black#lawsuit claims.#Youtube
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I want to say something funny here but can’t think of anything funnier than the text itself. This is from a biography of J Edgar Hoover called G-Man by Beverly Gage
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The 2023 Pulitzer Prize Winners
Since its founding in 1917, the Pulitzer Prize has recognized excellence in journalism, arts, and literature. The Pulitzer Prize winners for 2023 have been announced, and they represent some of the best and brightest in their respective fields.
Among the winners are journalists who exposed corruption and abuse of power, authors who wrote moving and thought-provoking works of fiction and non-fiction, and musicians who created groundbreaking new compositions. The Pulitzer Prize continues to symbolize the highest achievement in these fields, and the winners serve as inspirations to us all.
You can see the winners in all categories, including 15 Journalism categories, on the Pulitzer website. You can also watch the ceremony in full on YouTube below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpV2WuDX4r4
Books
Here are the 2023 Pulitzer Prize winners in the Books categories.
Fiction
"Demon Copperhead," by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper)
"Trust," by Hernan Diaz (Riverhead Books)
Finalist:
"The Immortal King Rao," by Vauhini Vara (W. W. Norton & Company)
History
"Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power," by Jefferson Cowie (Basic Books)
Finalists:
"Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America," by Michael John Witgen (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture/University of North Carolina Press)
"Watergate: A New History," by Garrett M. Graff (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)
Biography
"G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century," by Beverly Gage (Viking)
Finalists:
"His Name is George Floyd," by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa (Viking)
"Mr. B: George Balanchine’s 20th Century," by Jennifer Homans (Random House)
Memoir or Autobiography
"Stay True," by Hua Hsu (Doubleday)
Finalists:
"Easy Beauty: A Memoir," by Chloé Cooper Jones (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)
"The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir," by Ingrid Rojas Contreras (Doubleday)
Poetry
"Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020," by Carl Phillips (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
Finalists:
"Blood Snow," by dg nanouk okpik (Wave Books)
"Still Life," by the late Jay Hopler (McSweeney’s)
General Nonfiction
"His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice," by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa (Viking)
Finalists:
"Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern," by Jing Tsu (Riverhead Books)
"Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution’s Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction," by David George Haskell (Viking)
"Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation," by Linda Villarosa (Doubleday)
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