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Kenneth Lipp

Kenneth Lipp has 2 articles published.

Korryn Gaines Blackout Signals Expansion of Law Enforcement’s Special Relationship with Facebook

Baltimore County police did not want Korryn Gaines in contact with her Facebook audience when they served a warrant at her home last week. So they asked the company to deactivate her account. In the moments leading up to her death from police gunfire, Facebook complied. The deactivation of Gaines’ account cut her off from her only means of communicating with the public, leaving her 5 year-old son the only non-law enforcement witness to Gaines’s death. He was also wounded in the incident. It also… Keep Reading

Federal “Blue Lives Matter” Legislation Picks up Steam, Advances Myth that Cops are Under Threat

If Donald Trump’s “Law and Order” convention is any indication, Republicans in Congress could soon try to amend federal law to equate violence against police officers to assaults fueled by bigotry. The Blue Lives Matter Act of 2016, which was introduced to the House in April, gained two co-sponsors in the two weeks prior to the Republican Convention. The bill would amend Chapter 13 of Title 10 of the US Code to “make an attack on a police officer a hate crime.” Trump’s convention focused… Keep Reading

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