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Even White Americans Believe Blacks Are Treated Worse By Police, Poll Says
'Multiple’ Whistleblowers Come Forward In Trump Abuse-Of-Power Case
Majorities of Americans across racial lines say white people are treated more fairly than black people by the po- lice, according to a new poll from The Associated Press- NORC Center for Public Af- fairs Research.
But the poll finds a discon- nect between white Ameri- cans who identify disparate treatment of people of color by the police, but who don’t see police violence as a seri- ous problem a contrast on display this week as many black Americans welcomed the guilty verdict against for- mer Dallas officer Amber Guyger as a singular victory, rather than proof of changing attitudes.
About 7 in 10 black Amer- icans, and about half of His- panics, call police violence against the public very seri- ous, compared with about a quarter of white Americans. Roughly another third of white Americans call it a moderately serious problem.
The dynamic has played out in the wake of the Black Lives
Matter movement, which began in 2014 with the fatal shooting of unarmed 18-year- old Michael Brown by white, former Ferguson, Mis- souri, police officer Darren Wilson.
The work of activists around the issue of policing in communities of color has helped to raise awareness, said poll respondent War- ren Miller, a 62-year-old re- altor living in Fairview, Michigan, who said his black friends helped him realize that white people are treated more fairly by police.
A second whistleblower claims to have "first-hand knowledge' of Trump's call with Ukraine.
“Multiple” whistleblowers have come forward about President Trump’s efforts to pressure Ukraine to dig up dirt on Joe Biden, said a lawyer for the original whistleblower who set off the impeachment case roiling the nation.
“I can confirm that my firm and my team represent multiple whistleblowers in connection to the underlying August 12, 2019, disclosure to the Intelligence Commu- nity Inspector General. No further comment at this
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time,” attorney Andrew
One of the new whistle- blowers was described as an intelligence official with “first-hand knowledge” of some of the allegations in the original complaint. That complaint described how the president urged his Ukrain- ian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky to work with Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and U. S. Attorney General Bill Barr on digging up dirt about Biden, the leading Democratic presidential can- didate. The complaint also detailed a cover-up in which White House officials tried to hide a transcript of the call on a super-secret server.
Bakaj tweeted Sunday.
Atlanta Raises $50 Million To Provide Housing For
Keisha Lance Bot- toms, the mayor of Atlanta, just announced that the city reached its goal of raising a
whopping $50 million to pro- vide housing for the home- less.
According to reports from
Blavity, Atlanta partnered with the United Way of Greater Atlanta to raise the funds. About half of the money came from donations from private organizations, which includes Ameris Bank, who donated the last $114,000 that allowed the city to reach its goal. The other half is from the Home- less Opportunity Bond sale that began under former Mayor Kasim Reed.
At the moment, there are over 3,000 homeless people in the city of Atlanta and the money raised will provide 550 homes for the city’s homeless population.
The City’s Homeless Population
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