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Media News, Midwest, Police Accountability Project

Two St. Louis police killings similar to George Floyd and Breonna Taylor deaths

  • By William H. Freivogel
  • February 10, 2022

ST. LOUIS — Five years before George Floyd died of “asphyxia-restraint” on a Minneapolis street, 27-year-old Nicholas Gilbert died.

Media News, Midwest, Police Accountability Project

Encircling protesters and targeting journalists undermine right to assemble

  • By William H. Freivogel
  • February 3, 2022

The right to assemble is as American as apple pie. It is written in the First Amendment — “the.

Media News, News, Police Accountability Project

Abusive police officers evade punishment through an array of legal roadblocks to accountability

  • By William H. Freivogel
  • December 22, 2021

Police officers who abuse citizens usually escape punishment because of an array of legal doctrines that stack the law.

News

Publisher’s Note: The First Amendment’s nervous breakdown at 230

  • By William H. Freivogel
  • November 16, 2021

230 years after its ratification, the First Amendment is having a nervous breakdown. Billions of bits of information and.

News, Opinion

Remembering William ‘Reck’ Recktenwald

  • By William H. Freivogel
  • August 22, 2021

Remembering a great journalist, investigator, teacher, mentor and friend When I woke up the day after William A. Recktenwald.

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