CJ Ciaramella: Part of the issue here is small-town Mississippi police setting up illegal roadblocks in certain neighborhoods (you'll never guess which ones!). I wrote about similar cases in Madison County, MS several years ago reason.com/2019/10/04/a...

Every day there's another headline about Mississippi, I think back to the time I called it a "deeply messed up place" on Twitter (I think after news broke about a vicious cop gang), and a local editor was like, "uhhh miss me with that regional privilege."

"according to a recording reviewed by The Post, Dobbins assured Hooker he would cover for him if Hooker killed 'in cold blood.' Dobbins used the n-word and a homophobic slur, bragged that he’d killed 13 people in his career," www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

She took on a small Mississippi town’s police. Then they arrested her.www.washingtonpost.com How civil rights lawyer Jill Collen Jefferson convinced the Justice Department to investigate allegedly racist and abusive policing in tiny Lexington, Miss.

Part of the issue here is small-town Mississippi police setting up illegal roadblocks in certain neighborhoods (you'll never guess which ones!). I wrote about similar cases in Madison County, MS several years ago reason.com/2019/10/04/a...

A Mississippi County Has Agreed To Stop Using Illegal Roadblocks in Black Neighborhoodsreason.com A 2017 <i>Reason</i> investigation found that black residents in Madison County felt under siege in their own neighborhoods.