A lawsuit that could upend New York City’s property tax system was cleared to move forward by the state’s highest court on Tuesday. The decision is a victory for housing groups that say that the system favors wealthy homeowners over renters and owners in lower-income neighborhoods.

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An investigation by The New York Times and Mississippi Today revealed that for nearly two decades, deputies in the Rankin County sheriff’s department would barge into homes in the middle of the night and torture people. Read it here.

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Two former sheriff’s deputies who were part of a group they called the Goon Squad — officers that tortured, sexually assaulted and beat residents of a Mississippi county — were sentenced to prison on Tuesday for brutally attacking two Black men last year.

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Don't know the author, but this tracks

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Action tater! 1956. digitaltmuseum.org/021011151215...

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