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Los Angeles sheriff deputies frequently harass the families of people they have killed, including taunting them at vigils, parking outside their homes and following them and pulling them over for no reason, according to a new report from the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

No Copyright, free usage, attribution requested. Here's the semi-professionally recorded version: if anyone can turn it into something more easily shareable, I'm not good at that, my podcast has a program that edits and does that for me. https://www.dropbox.com/s/ioekr7a2b25c5l2/RWB%26B.m4a?dl=0 Thin Blue line cuts through the heart of America. 13 is when you are supposed to be taking art class, learning to mix paint…but they can't afford the paint at his school so the cops try to teach how Red, white, and blue, mix with black--no paint needed today. Countries, communities, or people--Blue puts a knee into white, and white just goes blue so blue cuts white some slack, white was always blue deep down inside if you just add a little pressure. blue puts a knee on black, tired and weary black refuses to take, blue mixes black and it just gets darker…blue has always known what to do with darker…from the beginning it seems, one is a person the other a skin, Make that the shadow scarey and mean, turn it to nothing, representing a void. I wish someday blue would turn around as he walked away, to see red drain to black, before it's washed from the pavement by a deep blue sea of tears. Can't you see blue? black can be blue too, the same as me and you. Maybe if blue would just stop checking to see what color you turn with a boot on your neck we could all stand up and examine something other than how black responds to blue. Maybe someday a 13 year old could finish art class, maybe a 13 year old black could examine some other colors someday... RJ Dieken

The conference, led by civil rights attorney Ben Crump, was announcing a lawsuit over the killings of A.J. Crooms and Sincere Pierce. The Florida Highway Patrol flew a surveillance plane in repeated circles above a news conference where a civil rights lawyer was demanding a federal investigation into how local law enforcement killed two unarmed Black teenagers, according to flight data reviewed by Motherboard. The news is the latest example of police surveilling those pushing back against police brutality on Black people. But this case goes beyond spying on a traditional march-in-the-street protest: The purpose of the news conference was lawyers Ben Crump and Natalie Jackson announcing a lawsuit against a specific police officer and the Brevard County Sheriff's Office for the shootings of Sincere Pierce and Angelo "A.J." Crooms last November. Do you have evidence of surveillance of protesters? We’d love to hear from you. Using a non-work phone or computer, you can contact Joseph Cox securely on Signal on +44 20 8133 5190 , Wickr on josephcox, OTR chat onjfcox@jabber.ccc.de, or email joseph.cox@vice.com.