... “[T]he roadblocks end where the white people start.” 
In the Spirit Jurisprudence,
Mississippi’s richest county uses police checkpoints to enforce segregation, lawsuit claims
The rights abridgments of Madison County
Madison County, Mississippi, is among the most segregated places in America. Past court decisions have made note of its “racial isolation” and “confluence of…geography and demography.”
Part of the reason the state’s wealthiest county remains so divided, according to a new class-action lawsuit filed Monday, is that county leaders want it that way — and are willing to use local law enforcement to enforce an unofficial cordon around the county’s roughly 40,000 black residents ...
https://thinkprogress.org/rights-abridged-madison-county-9ac948aa63cc
Madison County Sheriff Randall Tucker. CREDIT: AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis
Alan Pyke
Deputy Economic Policy Editor, ThinkProgress. Poverty, criminal-justice profiteering, police violence, & robber barons. Tips: apyke@americanprogress.org
May 8
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In the Spirit Jurisprudence,
Mississippi’s richest county uses police checkpoints to enforce segregation, lawsuit claims
The rights abridgments of Madison County
Madison County, Mississippi, is among the most segregated places in America. Past court decisions have made note of its “racial isolation” and “confluence of…geography and demography.”
Part of the reason the state’s wealthiest county remains so divided, according to a new class-action lawsuit filed Monday, is that county leaders want it that way — and are willing to use local law enforcement to enforce an unofficial cordon around the county’s roughly 40,000 black residents ...
https://thinkprogress.org/rights-abridged-madison-county-9ac948aa63cc

Madison County Sheriff Randall Tucker. CREDIT: AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis

Alan Pyke
Deputy Economic Policy Editor, ThinkProgress. Poverty, criminal-justice profiteering, police violence, & robber barons. Tips: apyke@americanprogress.org
May 8
...