louisiana

A brutal #beating by deputies was caught on tape. They were cleared by state #police anyway.

The strip search lasted just 6 minutes, but when it ended, Jarius Brown had a broken nose, fractured eye socket & a badly swollen face.

#law #PoliceBrutality #Louisiana #LouisianaStatePolice #sheriff #SystemicRacism #ACAB #PoliceReform #QualifiedImmunity
https://apnews.com/article/beating-custody-brown-louisiana-desoto-parish-1bd6d145dfa9316c44c3e51a10a0f7da?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-09-21-AP+investigation+

🤦🏻‍♀️Via Democracy Docket:

BREAKING: Federal judge strikes down #Louisiana's court-ordered congressional map with two majority-Black districts, ruling in favor of "non-African American" voters who argued the new map is racially gerrymandered. #legal

#Louisiana passes bill to make #abortion pills a controlled dangerous substance🤦🏻‍♀️

The measure would make possession of the medications without a valid prescription or an order from a medical professional punishable by up to five years in prison, with an exception for pregnant people.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/louisiana-passes-bill-make-abortion-pills-controlled-dangerous-substan-rcna153052 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/louisiana-passes-bill-make-abortion-pills-controlled-dangerous-substan-rcna153052?cid=mob_npd_nn_ios_mar

☠️⚠️“Researchers using high-tech air monitoring equipment rolled through an industrialized stretch of southeast #Louisiana in mobile labs & found levels of a carcinogen in concentrations as much as 10x higher than previously estimated..raises new health concerns for communities that sit among the chemical plants lining a stretch of the Mississippi River bw Baton Rouge & New Orleans — dubbed “cancer alley” by environmentalists”
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/researchers-find-higher-levels-dangerous-chemical-expected-southeast-111012780

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Via Elie Mystal:

Welp, here we fucking go. This is how they’re gonna do the #abortion pill ban:

Via Mark Joseph Stern:

#Louisiana prosecutors have secured the indictment of a #NewYork doctors who prescribes and mails medication abortion to Louisiana patients. It's a major test of NY's shield law, which prohibits state officials from enforcing these charges or any resulting conviction.

" NY doctor indicted for prescribing abortion pill in Louisiana "
https://apnews.com/article/abortion-indictment-lousiana-new-york-doctor-63ff4d9da8a9b592a7ca4ec7ba538cd3

Keep ‘em coming

“ #Louisiana 's Ten Commandments law in public schools blocked by federal appeals court

The law went into effect this year, but it’s unclear how many, if any, school districts have begun to comply as litigation could ultimately land before the U.S. Supreme Court.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/louisianas-ten-commandments-law-public-schools-blocked-federal-appeals-rcna189408