This story was co-published with The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence in America. In September, the US Department of Justice sued the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, alleging that it had deprived “thousands of law-abiding” Californians of their fundamental rights. The lawsuit—spearheaded by the DOJ’s storied Civil Rights Division—was unusual. It didn’t take […]
In 2001, John J. Lennon killed a man on a street in New York City. He was convicted of murder several years later and given the maximum sentence—25 years to life in prison—on top of three additional years for two other convictions. From behind bars, Lennon began reckoning with his crime through in-prison writing workshops […]
Journalist Sami Hamdi joins Zeteo for a live town hall Q&A, where he’ll discuss what it was like to be detained by ICE agents last month following a critical speech he gave on Israel.