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![Organizers who attended the Nationwide Summit to Stop Cop City in Tucson, Arizona, rallied outside the primary insurer of the Cop City project in Scottsdale, Arizona, on February 26, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/02/JPEG-image-4F55-B945-D1-0-400x300.jpeg)
Stop Cop City Takes Fight to Tucson as GA Aims to Expand Domestic Terror Statute
Activists targeted insurers and investors in Tucson as the Georgia legislature and police target organizers in Atlanta.
![Illustration of woman in shadows behind bars with cracked texture and red/orange colors](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/02/2024_0222-prison-b-400x300.jpg)
Women Speaking Up About Sexual Abuse Behind Bars Face Retaliation in California
Despite highly publicized arrests and promises of change, sexual abuse and retaliation continue at the prison in Dublin.
![New Details Point to FBI, NYPD Conspiracy 59 Years After Malcolm X Assassination](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/02/seg2-Malcolm-400x300.jpg)
New Details Point to FBI, NYPD Conspiracy 59 Years After Malcolm X Assassination
Civil rights attorneys call on New York City Mayor Eric Adams to support the release of key evidence in the case.
![Hand of a nurse passes a box of Narcan to an unhoused person in a tent in Los Angeles](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/02/2024_0222-narcan-unhoused-400x300.jpg)
LA City Crews Toss State-Funded Narcan From Encampments as Overdoses Soar
Unhoused residents and their advocates say that the sweeps kill people, often by destroying property needed to survive.
![A hand with keys unlocks a prison cell door.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/02/2024_0220-jail-cell-400x300.jpg)
12 Years After Degrading Mass Strip Search, Women in Prison Won $1.4M Settlement
The settlement is far larger than others of its kind and represents a win for Fourth Amendment rights behind bars.
![Banner image for Movement Memos, a Truthout podcast, featuring guests Navi Heer, Nathan, Jim Daley, and host Kelly Hayes](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/02/2024_0215-movement-memos-400x300.jpg)
Chicago Organizers Defeat Police Tech in Ongoing Fight for Community Safety
“We're going to continue to organize,” says Stop ShotSpotter organizer Navi Heer.
![Police from local, state and federal agencies raided three separate homes in Atlanta, Georgia, early on the morning of February 8, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/02/GF0ZcoKWUAAoJzw-b-2-400x300.jpg)
Multi-Agency Task Force Raids 3 Atlanta Homes, Arrests 1 Amid Cop City Crackdown
The Atlanta police chief said that there will likely be more arrests in coming weeks as the investigation continues.
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Florida Advances Legislation That Would Quash Police Oversight Boards
Despite having no legal power in the state, these oversight committees’ impacts have already been felt.
![The Broward County jail is pictured in Florida on January 30, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/02/2024_0207-broward-county-jail-400x300.jpg)
NAACP Requests That DOJ Investigate Broward County Jails in Florida
Twenty-one people, primarily people of color, have died in Broward County jails since 2019.
![A digital illustration of prisoners being bricked into their cells as they protest to a whistling guard who is wheeling in cinderblock](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/02/2024_0202-prison1-400x300.jpg)
Prison Lockdowns Are Becoming More Frequent and More Brutal Across the US
A largely unknown, frightening trend in the US prison system is impacting many incarcerated people and their loved ones.