Over the past two months, the city of Vallejo has paid out $672,000 in settlements to victims of excessive force lawsuits filed against Vallejo police Officer Robert DeMarco. According to the Vallejo Sun, the lawsuits stem from two incidents in 2017 and 2018 where Officer DeMarco struck two men with his baton while they were lying on the ground. Journalist Scott Morris joins us to describe these events. Morris covers policing, protest, civil rights, and far-right extremism for the Vallejo Sun.
Read Scott Morris’ story here: https://www.vallejosun.com/vallejo-police-officer-robert-demarcos-costly-baton/
A recent Federal Appeals Court ruling allows students to sue the U.S. government for luring them to Farmington University, a fake institution that Immigration and Customs Enforcement incorporated in 2016, apparently to entrap international students who arrived legally in the U.S. on F-1 visas in an illegal “pay to stay” scheme. We review the legal case with Anna Nathanson, Associate Attorney with the Norris Law Group who represented the students who sued the U.S. and Niraj Warikoo, a reporter for the Detroit Free Press who has been covering this story since he broke it in 2019.
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This week’s Resistance in Residence artist is transgender rhythm guitarist, orchestrator, composer, and producer, Ella Rae Feingold, who has toured and recorded with the whose-who of modern Black music including Queen Latifah, Erykah Badu, The Roots, Jay Z, Corrine Bailey Rae, Eric Benet, Silk Sonic (which is Anderson Paak and Bruno Mars), and many more.
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