
Akela Lacy
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This morning at 11 AM at UCLA, we'll be announcing a new lawsuit against the cops that shot protesters at the Palestine Solidarity Encampment in 2024. You can read more about the suit here. Thanks again to Akela Lacy The Intercept for covering this!



NEW: On Friday, ICE agents stopped a bus in Albion, NY. They had a list of names, and took 14 people into custody. Those workers — and their employer — just happened to be involved in one of the most crucial labor struggles in the state in recent memory My latest The Intercept



Listen to our summit with Rümeysa Öztürk’s lawyer, fellow Tufts :”students, Akela Lacy, and Marty Baron: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/que…

Talked about my favorite topics - the impending police state and the war on reform prosecutors - with Radley Balko & Jessica Washington on this week’s episode of The Intercept Briefing. Listen 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

NEW: #Columbia issued blanket suspensions after Wednesday’s protest. But even students who had nothing to do with the protest were suspended, with no due process – and given 48 hours to vacate their residences. With Meghnad Bose, for The Intercept theintercept.com/2025/05/10/col…

Can Rubber Bullets be Deadly? (w/The Intercept's Akela Lacy) #RubberBullets #PoliceBrutality #ProtestRights #LessLethal #CrowdControl #BLM #PoliceAccountability #Lawsuit #SocialJustice #HumanRights #AkelaLacy




Trump’s EPA has a new new mission: making the U.S. the capital for AI and reviving the auto industry. “They’re doing all this under the guise of efficiency, but what they really are doing is dismantling this agency from doing its job,” one staffer told me. theintercept.com/2025/05/13/tru…

People in Gaza are posting their final messages. If there was any justice in the world, the people living in countries giving Israel weapons would wake up tomorrow to wall-to-wall coverage of Israel’s slaughter. Instead, it’s treated as normal. Sick to my stomach with the apathy.


Adams again made reference to "Gays for Hamas" in an interview with Dr. Phil that just aired, claiming he "was speaking" to that group. Kayla Mamelak Altus told reporters Tuesday the mayor meant to refer to "Queers for Palestine," but the mayor evidently keeps saying "Gays for Hamas."




NEWS: ICE agents are camped outside immigration courts to arrest people after they've had their cases dismissed in court. Other agents spotted in AZ, CA, IL, MA, MD, TX. w/ Noah Hurowitz & Jose Olivares theintercept.com/2025/05/21/ice…

NEW: ICE appears to have staged a nationwide enforcement operation today, with agents camping outside immigration courtrooms to make arrests. Incidents reported in NYC and Buffalo, as well as AZ, CA, IL, MA, MD, and TX Akela Lacy, Jose Olivares and me in The Intercept
