
NAACP sues Mississippi over ‘separate and unequal policing’
[ad_1] “In certain areas of Jackson, a citizen can be arrested by a police department led by a State-appointed official, be charged by a State-appointed prosecutor, be tried before a State-appointed judge, and be sentenced to imprisonment in a State penitentiary regardless of the severity of the act,” the lawsuit says. Derrick Johnson, the national…