On a breezy day in Manchester, New Hampshire, Mateo and his wife, Lisa, decided to run an errand.
As the couple rode down an interstate highway on July 31, 2017, they came upon a police vehicle on the shoulder with its lights flashing.
Under New Hampshire traffic laws, drivers must slow to a safe speed and 鈥溾�� to stationary emergency vehicles with flashing lights.
But Mateo, 36, did not know this.
On the stretch of highway careening south from Columbus to Lumpkin, patches of Georgia red clay lie like open sores on the road鈥檚 shoulder. The sun burns bright orange, through air that is hazy with pollen and smoke from controlled forest fires.
The land here was once valuable. It was coveted. Nearly 200 years ago, white men named this county Stewart, after a revolutionary war militia general. White men massacred the men, women and children of the Creek Confederacy over this land.
As the U.S. Supreme Court pointed out on Feb. 20, the constitutional clause that protects Americans from having to pay 鈥渆xcessive fines鈥� traces its lineage to the Magna Carta, which set forth certain rights in England more than 800 years ago.
We鈥檝e been locked in a legal battle with the state of Alabama for the past five years over the sickening mistreatment of people in its prisons who have medical and mental health needs.
A U.S. congressman and the chairwoman of the Arizona Republican Party are both listed as speakers at an event that will also be attended by multiple hate groups.
Holden Matthews, the 21-year-old man accused of burning three historically black churches in Louisiana, was influenced by 鈥渂lack metal,鈥� police say 鈥� a music genre sometimes tied to organized hate.
Ten professors, who are white or presumed to be white, have received death threats from a black nationalist organization that accuses them of 鈥渄esecrating the tombs of Gods and Goddesses.鈥�
Suicide. Self-harm. Medical neglect. Isolated in segregation. Quarantined and left without legal counsel.
About three-and-a-half years ago, a man named Patrick Carlineo joined a brand-new Facebook group called 鈥淣o Syrian refugees for NY.鈥�
