As you may know, our primary goal in starting this series was to find a way to fight back against police brutality; to crowdsource a law that would police the police. We did that. And some funny, marvelous things have been happening along the way.
First, we managed to get no less a person than NAACP's Washington Bureau Director and Senior Vice President for Advocacy, Hilary Shelton to guide us. Hilary Shelton is the successor of Thurgood Marshall. After that, a representative of the national ACLU representative expressed a desire to "partner" with us. If we may say so ourselves, those are BFDs!
But most important is what we have been learning about the law and how we can use existing laws as very effective weapons against corrupt police officers and sleazy politicians.
Last week we started a conversation about how to fight back after the shellacking we took in the midterm elections. This week we'll explore how to use the Freedom of Information Act to put Republican Governors on the defensive. Our example will be about those governors who have denied life-saving care to their citizens by refusing to implement the Medicaid Expansion program under the Affordable Care Act. However, you can use Freedom of Information Act requests for any other important issue, including police brutality, Stand Your Ground laws, the institutional racism displayed by police departments, Voter ID laws, gerrymandering and the like.