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GUEST COMMENTARY UPDATE: ROBERT BROOKS’ DEATH AND THE COST OF UNCHECKED VIOLENCE BEHIND PRISON WALLS
By Journalist Malik WashingtonDestination Freedom Media Group & The Davis Vanguard Photo Credits:https://www.themarshallproject.org/2025/04/30/new-york-prisons-abuse-infirmaries (top left)https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/nyregion/robert-brooks-corrections-officers-charged-murder.html (top middle)https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/22/us/robert-brooks-prison-employee-plea (top right)https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/autopsy-shows-robert-brooks-new-york-inmate-was-beaten-handcuffed-died-rcna190908 (bottom left)https://www.axios.com/2024/12/30/robert-brooks-death-new-york-prison-death (bottom middle) Please note
AFTER THE VERDICT: A HUNG JURY, A DECLARED MISTRIAL, AND THE NEXT BATTLE IN THE KEVIN EPPS CASE
San Francisco — Monday, December 22, 2025 It is still not clear what motivated the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office to target award-winning journalist and
A VERDICT WITHOUT INTENT: SUPPRESSED TRUTH, SELECTIVE PROSECUTION, AND A CITY FORCED TO ASK WHO JUSTICE IS REALLY FOR
San Francisco Hall of Justice — December 2025 Not Guilty of first-degree murder.Not Guilty of second-degree murder. The jury rejected the prosecution’s most extreme claims—those
A CITY ON TRIAL: SUPPRESSED TRUTH, COURTROOM COLLUSION, AND A JURY NOW DECIDING SAN FRANCISCO’S SOUL
The trial of Kevin Epps illustrates and highlights contradictions not easily recognized or embraced by citizens who live in the City of San Francisco. An
WHEN JUSTICE TILTS: SELECTIVE PROSECUTION, POLITICAL CALCULUS, AND THE LOOMING VERDICT IN THE KEVIN EPPS MURDER TRIAL
On December 5, 2025, the steps of San Francisco’s Hall of Justice at 850 Bryant Street transformed into a platform for truth-telling. Community members —
THE KEVIN EPPS MURDER TRIAL — PART II
A Courtroom Tilted, a Witness Unsteady, and Questions the System Refuses to Ask Photo credit:https://missionlocal.org/2025/01/sf-hall-of-justice-850-bryant-court-sheriffs-prosecutors-public-defenders/ California Victim Compensation Law – Gov. Code §13950 et seq.https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.xhtml?lawCode=GOV&division=3.&title=1.&part=4.&chapter=5.&article=1
THE KEVIN EPPS MURDER TRIAL — PART III
Science, Bias, and the Contradictions the Court Doesn’t Want You to See When you sit inside Department 13 of San Francisco Superior Court long enough,
THE KEVIN EPPS MURDER TRIAL: Part I
My Observations and Presentation of Information the Prosecution Wants Suppressed San Francisco styles itself as a progressive city, a beacon of justice, equity, and truth.
JUSTICE FOR JAVION MAGEE NOW
Racism is Still Very Much Alive in America “Between 1882 and 1968, more than 3, 400 African Americans were lynched in the United States, according