17-year-old India Landry says she’s done this more than 200 times in class in front of six or more teachers without anyone saying a word. When the Pledge of Allegiance is recited she remains in her seat. “Because I don’t believe the flag represents justice and that’s what they want us to stand for,” Landry said.
Two Chicago policemen are suing the city of Chicago, claiming that the police department retaliated against them after they cooperated with a federal investigation into corrupt officers, and now the judge wants the mayor to take the stand, the Guardian reported. The two officers had helped the FBI uncover a narcotics team that was collecting money from drug dealers in exchange for protection. …
On Monday, Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced that the DOJ has filed suit against the state of North Carolina over HB 2, which seeks to protect citizens from being intruded upon by transgenders in the restrooms by dictating they can only use the bathroom of their biological sex. In her press announcement, Lynch denounced the law as “state-sponsored discrimination” that denies transgenders …