Tortuguita was 26 years old and inside a tent at the Stop Cop City encampment of forest defenders in Atlanta, Georgia when they were killed in a hail of gunfire by highly militarized state police doing one of their many heavily-armed raids of the encampment, on the morning of January 18th, 2023.  I'll have much more to say.  But for now, a song.

Tortuguita's Playlist

Tortuguita was killed by Georgia state police on January 18th, 2023. A few days ago a friend of theirs sent me a playlist on Spotify.

Tortuguita's Playlist (podcast)

This week on Everyday Injustice, we are joined by former federal prosecutor Jared Fishman who is now the founder of Justice Innovation Lab.

He tells the remarkable story of Henry Glover’s murder in Hurricane Katrina–era New Orleans.  Glover was killed by police officers following the hurricane, and his killing was thoroughly covered up.

According to the book description, “In 2009, Jared Fishman was a young prosecutor working on low-level civil rights cases in the Justice Department when a file landed on his desk.

“That folder contained two items: a story from The Nation magazine examining a mysterious death in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, and an autopsy report for a man named Henry Glover, whose charred remains were found in a burned-out car two weeks after the storm. The autopsy report, bafflingly, listed no cause of death. But according to The Nation story, a gravely wounded Glover had last been seen in a car driven by a New Orleans police officer.”

Fishman eventually flies to New Orleans to learn about what happened, and teams up with a rookie FBI agent, and together they started to track down anyone with information about what had happened to Glover on that day.

Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 213 – Jared Fishman and Fire on the Levee

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New tracks tagged #Police Killing