Police departments and state prisons aren’t doing enough to identify and punish bias among their officers and the state should do more to combat the problem, a state audit found. The audit, released this morning, recommended that the state Justice Department more regularly investigate how local police departments and sheriff’’s offices handle such alleged incidents, […]
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Dog Whistles and Racists Among Us
Over the past week, we’ve heard two dog whistles blown loudly, one via the bulletin board at a local coffee shop and the other through the Twitter account of the president of the United States. At least locally, the backlash was swift after someone — later determined to be a teenage boy — posted fliers […]
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EPD Identifies Juvenile Responsible for Hate Group Fliers, Says no Immediate Threat of Violence
UPDATE: The Eureka Police Department has issued a press release with some additional information, which can be found here. PREVIOUSLY: The Eureka Police Department has identified a male juvenile believed to be responsible for posting white supremacist recruiting fliers around town, interviewed him and determined there doesn’t appear to be an immediate physical threat to […]
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EPD Investigating White Supremacist Group’s Local Recruiting Efforts
UPDATE: The Eureka Police Department has issued a press release, which you can read here. PREVIOUSLY: The Eureka Police Department is investigating an apparent militaristic white supremacist group that is recruiting locally, both through social media and fliers posted around the county. A flier with an image of an assault rifle was found posted in […]
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HSU Alum Prepares to Prank Steve Bannon in Charleston, South Carolina
Jessica Hardesty Norris, who graduated from Humboldt State University with a degree in Wildlife in 1997, went from despair to action within the space of week. Now she’s using data gathering skills gleaned from her time at HSU to play a massive prank on former White House chief strategist and Breitbart founder Steve Bannon and […]