"Eric Garner's widow shouted two fiery words of rebuke when asked if she accepted words of condolence from the cop who killed her husband with a chokehold: “Hell no!” Hours after the...
“'How can anyone in the community have faith in the system now?' asked Vincent Warren, Center for Constitutional Rights executive director. No charges will be brought against white officer...
"How can anyone in the community have faith in the system now?" said Vincent Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, in a statement. "First Ferguson, now Staten Island...
"A police officer who choked an unarmed man to death on a public sidewalk will not face trial. This is the second recent high-profile case in which a grand jury declined to indict a white police...
"A white New York City police officer accused of killing a black man with a chokehold avoided indictment, raising the prospect of new protests over police use of force a week after a Missouri...
"Reaction across the city was mixed Wednesday after a grand jury decided not to indict NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo in the apparent chokehold death of Staten Island man Eric Garner. Garner's...
"Hundreds of civil rights lawyers from across America are descending on Ferguson, Missouri as police and protesters prepare for a grand jury decision on whether to charge the officer who killed...
By Al Baker Thursday, May 13, 2010 Blacks and Latinos were nine times as likely as whites to be stopped by the police in New York City in 2009, but, once stopped, were no more likely to be arrested...
The Center for Constitutional Rights Social Justice Institute in conjunction with The Bertha Foundation cordially invite you to the CCR Social Justice Conference 2012: Principles and Approaches to...
In 2008, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), along with partners from the US Human Rights Network, the Justice Committee and Peoples' Justice coalition presented testimony to the United...