#civil-rights-violations

#civil-rights-violations

In the March 8 incident outside a restaurant at Santana Row, two people standing on the sidewalk exchanged words with three men who approached them before the confrontation turned physical, according to a San José Police Department report. Investigators wrote that one of the suspects allegedly yelled anti-Jewish slurs before all three began punching the two victims, knocking them to the ground and continuing the assault for several seconds.

In many ways, Alex Pretti and Renee Good could have been any of the dozens of Minneapolis residents I met last week. Among them were teachers, store clerks, Uber drivers, charity workers and clergymen a patchwork of humanity withstanding what many have called the Trump administration's siege on their city, which began in December last year and has led to 3,000 arrests, two fatal shootings, and routine rights violations in an operation defined by government brutality.

But a year later, it is clear to everyone that the Trump administration's stated mission of deporting the worst of the worst is entirely false. We have witnessed it firsthand for months on end at 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan, where masked ICE agents have stalked the hallways and ambushed law-abiding immigrants complying with court orders to attend hearings.

The U.S. Department of Education determined that California's practices allowed transgender students to compete based on gender identity, violating the civil rights of female athletes.