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      NYC to Pay Millions to Police Brutality Protesters Violently Arrested by NYPD

      "They dragged me on the ground and beat me with batons," said one protester. "Somewhere in the process of being cuffed, I had a knee on my neck."

      Brett Wilkins
      Mar 01, 2023

      Hundreds of people who were trapped, beaten, and wrongfully arrested by New York City police officers during a nonviolent 2020 racial justice protest in the Bronx will each receive $21,500 if a judge approves the terms of a settlement filed in federal court late Tuesday.

      Around 300 people were arrested, many of them brutally, on June 4, 2020 in the Mott Haven neighborhood while peacefully protesting police violence and systemic racism following the May 25 murder of unarmed Black man George Floyd by Minneapolis police.

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      US Legal Observers Report 'Balanced and Transparent' Election Process in Venezuela

      The federal government's "consistently false narrative of elections in Venezuela is formulated to legitimize the continuation of U.S. sanctions, which are violations of international law and amount to economic warfare," said the head of the National Lawyers Guild.

      Jessica Corbett
      Nov 24, 2021

      A delegation of observers from a New York City-based progressive legal group on Wednesday pushed back against the Biden administration's claims about Venezuela's recent regional elections in which allies of President Nicolas Maduro's socialist party were largely victorious.

      "We observed a balanced and transparent voting process which voters expressed confidence in."

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      National Lawyers Guild Urges Biden to Align US Israel-Palestine Policy With International Law

      National Lawyers Guild Urges Biden to Align US Israel-Palestine Policy With International Law

      "The United States cannot turn its back on the atrocities, including war crimes, enabled by U.S. policies, particularly its decadeslong policy of shielding Israel from accountability."

      Brett Wilkins
      May 03, 2021

      Less than a week after Human Rights Watch published a scathing report accusing the Israeli government of the crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution for its treatment of Palestinians, a leading U.S. legal advocacy group on Monday submitted a memorandum to the Biden administration outlining the legal basis for reversing Trump-era pro-Israel policies that violate human rights and international law.

      "It has long been obvious to anyone paying attention that U.S. policy on Palestine and Israel does not match its rhetoric nor the ideals that it claims to stand for--freedom, human rights, and democracy."
      --NLG

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