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ArchCity Defenders
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Добавлен 9 май 2017
ArchCity Defenders is a non-profit civil rights law firm providing holistic legal advocacy and combating the criminalization of poverty and state violence against poor people and people of color. ACD uses direct services, impact litigation, and policy and media advocacy as its primary tools to promote justice, protect civil and human rights, and bring about systemic change on behalf of the poor and communities of color directly impacted by the abuses of the legal system.
Empty Not Closed: Disappearing the Workhouse for Good
In 2022, we successfully emptied the Workhouse, St. Louis’ medium security jail infamous for its hellish and inhumane conditions. It has sat vacant ever since. But empty does not equal closed. City hall could make a decision today to start putting people back in the Workhouse. You can help make sure that doesn’t happen.
Help us disappear the Workhouse for good at emptynotclosed.org.
Help us disappear the Workhouse for good at emptynotclosed.org.
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PAY OR STAY | Introduction
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In 1983, the U.S. Supreme Court made it clear: Judges cannot send people to jail because they are too poor to pay their court fines. Despite this, many towns in St. Louis have used their police and municipal courts to arrest and jail thousands of poor and predominantly Black people for their inability to pay. These towns generated millions of dollars in revenue, while causing countless people t...
PAY OR STAY | Keilee Fant's story
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"Pay or Stay" is a collection research, stories, and reflections from a decade of legal battles to abolish debtors' prisons in St. Louis, from the perspective of ArchCity Defenders and its clients. This is Keilee Fant's story. View the full project at: bit.ly/pay-or-stay This video series was produced by Johnny Wu Gabbert, with editing and interviewing support from Z Gorley, Angelo Vidal, Natal...
PAY OR STAY | Thomas Harvey's story
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"Pay or Stay" is a collection research, stories, and reflections from a decade of legal battles to abolish debtors' prisons in St. Louis, from the perspective of ArchCity Defenders and its clients. This is Thomas Harvey's story. View the full project at: bit.ly/pay-or-stay This video series was produced by Johnny Wu Gabbert, with editing and interviewing support from Z Gorley, Angelo Vidal, Nat...
PAY OR STAY | Brendan Roediger's story
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"Pay or Stay" is a collection research, stories, and reflections from a decade of legal battles to abolish debtors' prisons in St. Louis, from the perspective of ArchCity Defenders and its clients. This is Brendan Roediger's story. View the full project at: bit.ly/pay-or-stay This video series was produced by Johnny Wu Gabbert, with editing and interviewing support from Z Gorley, Angelo Vidal, ...
PAY OR STAY | Blake Strode's story
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"Pay or Stay" is a collection research, stories, and reflections from a decade of legal battles to abolish debtors' prisons in St. Louis, from the perspective of ArchCity Defenders and its clients. This is Blake Strode's story. View the full project at: bit.ly/pay-or-stay This video series was produced by Johnny Wu Gabbert, with editing and interviewing support from Z Gorley, Angelo Vidal, Nata...
PAY OR STAY | Quinton Thomas's story
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"Pay or Stay" is a collection research, stories, and reflections from a decade of legal battles to abolish debtors' prisons in St. Louis, from the perspective of ArchCity Defenders and its clients. This is Quinton Thomas' story. View the full project at: bit.ly/pay-or-stay This video series was produced by Johnny Wu Gabbert, with editing and interviewing support from Z Gorley, Angelo Vidal, Nat...
PAY OR STAY | Sheron Felton's story
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"Pay or Stay" is a collection research, stories, and reflections from a decade of legal battles to abolish debtors' prisons in St. Louis, from the perspective of ArchCity Defenders and its clients. This is Sheron Felton's story. View the full project at: bit.ly/pay-or-stay This video series was produced by Johnny Wu Gabbert, with editing and interviewing support from Z Gorley, Angelo Vidal, Nat...
PAY OR STAY | Maureen Hanlon's story
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"Pay or Stay" is a collection research, stories, and reflections from a decade of legal battles to abolish debtors' prisons in St. Louis, from the perspective of ArchCity Defenders and its clients. This is Maureen Hanlon's story. View the full project at: bit.ly/pay-or-stay This video series was produced by Johnny Wu Gabbert, with editing and interviewing support from Z Gorley, Angelo Vidal, Na...
PAY OR STAY | Umi Okoli's story
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"Pay or Stay" is a collection research, stories, and reflections from a decade of legal battles to abolish debtors' prisons in St. Louis, from the perspective of ArchCity Defenders and its clients. This is Umi Okoli's story. View the full project at: bit.ly/pay-or-stay This video series was produced by Johnny Wu Gabbert, with editing and interviewing support from Z Gorley, Angelo Vidal, Natalie...
PAY OR STAY | Nicole Bolden's story
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"Pay or Stay" is a collection research, stories, and reflections from a decade of legal battles to abolish debtors' prisons in St. Louis, from the perspective of ArchCity Defenders and its clients. This is Nicole Bolden's story. View the full project at: bit.ly/pay-or-stay Photo credits: 2:23 - Ratto, Andrew. IMG_1312 (St. Louis county Jail). 2008. www.flickr.com/photos/andydr/2560037906/. 4:16...
From the Frontlines of Ferguson: Lessons on Protest with Kris Hendrix
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In May 2015, Kris Hendrix was leaving a Black Lives Matter protest when SLMPD arrested, handcuffed, and repeatedly tasered her for nothing more than impeding the flow of traffic. Over the span of seven years, we secured acquittals of the City’s bogus charges against her as well as a rare verdict against the officer that tasered her, while helping to counter misconstrued narratives about her in ...
New Video Footage Further Exposes Inhumane Treatment of People Detained at St. Louis City Jail
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On Thursday, July 28, 2023 in federal court, ACD and co-counsel filed a motion containing staggering evidence that the St. Louis City Justice Center (CJC) has a systemic practice of excessively macing and depriving detainees of water. We found over 360 use-of-force reports, more than 50 declarations and grievances, and video footage of correctional officers macing detainees at point-blank range...
Fant v. Ferguson, 7 Years Later
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In the midst of the Ferguson uprising, Keilee Fant and 9 other plaintiffs sued Ferguson for violating their constitutional rights, as the municipality routinely discriminated against Black and poor citizens through over-policing and extortion through ticket fines and fees. Ms. Fant and the other plaintiffs have been fighting for justice and accountability for the past 7 years. In this audio cli...
RESTART Expungement Program Gives People a Second Chance in Life
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We don’t believe a mistake should define you. ArchCity Defenders’ RESTART Expungement Program assists individuals with removing past convictions or arrests from their record at no cost to the client, because everyone deserves a chance to restart their lives without the shackles of a criminal record. You can apply for services through the RESTART Expungement Program by selecting the Expungement ...
Khorry Ramey: “Taking it day by day is hard.”
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Khorry Ramey: “Taking it day by day is hard.”
Maria Miller: “I still hurt. Oh, it still hurts.”
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Maria Miller: “I still hurt. Oh, it still hurts.”
Toni Taylor: “The fight for justice is led by women.”
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Toni Taylor: “The fight for justice is led by women.”
Tammy Bufford: “We need to make a change in the system.”
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Tammy Bufford: “We need to make a change in the system.”
Wanda Parker: “Losing a child... it’s like a part of me has left.”
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Wanda Parker: “Losing a child... it’s like a part of me has left.”
Gina Torres: “They took my heart when they took my son.”
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Gina Torres: “They took my heart when they took my son.”
Lexii Alexander: A Trans Women’s Reflections on Social Death in Prison
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Lexii Alexander: A Trans Women’s Reflections on Social Death in Prison
St. Louis Man Finds Out He's Owed Thousands From Normandy Lawsuit Settlement
Просмотров 582 года назад
St. Louis Man Finds Out He's Owed Thousands From Normandy Lawsuit Settlement
ArchCity Defenders: Defending the Human Right to Housing
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ArchCity Defenders: Defending the Human Right to Housing
2022 Normandy Class Action Settlement
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2022 Normandy Class Action Settlement
Expungement Program at ArchCity Defenders
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Expungement Program at ArchCity Defenders
#ProSeSTL Housing Guide Walkthrough (Part 3/3)
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#ProSeSTL Housing Guide Walkthrough (Part 3/3)
I honestly do not feel bad for ppl who can’t pay rent. Ppl will pay for nails, wigs, Xbox, Gucci yet SAVE nothing for a rainy day. I feel nothing for you poor decision makers. Keep in mind she has 9 kids so she had time for something
The whole justice system infrastructure need to be revamped
They Energy Harvest our Energy...modern slavery just refaced
While I feel for her and think the system is wrong, I have questions. Why so many parking tickets to begin with? Why didn't she pay them when she got them and not let them pile up? You'll say she couldn't afford it. I counter that how many kids does she have again? I mean c'mon stop playing the victim card. It's HER fault. She got the tickets and then she didn't pay them. I don't think pay or stay is right, don't get me wrong. But again she put herself in that mess. I have 1 child. You know why I have only 1 child? Cause I can't afford more than one child. That means when I fuck up and get a ticket, I pay the ticket. Women accidently get pregnant all the time you say? Bullshit. There's way too many ways to stop that exact thing from happening. As women we need to do better for ourselves and our kids. The law needs to change but she put herself in this situation period. I only feel for for missing her father's funeral. Tell me I'm wrong
Whites. Are. The. Printer. Of. Money. ....that. Just. Use. To. Justified. Need. To. Hurt. Your. Body.......... something. About. There. Body. That. They. Most. Hurt. Yours.......😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
I’m glad American see how American really are and their sick ways of thinking 😮💯.
Such a great video... this is who you would like for a friend a husband just a good person around you he is great
Debt is not a jailable offense legally neither is driving but when you're incompetent anything goes
There were over 35 million Africans who died en route to America, captured or bought as slaves. For more than two (2) centuries, slave ships sailed from Africa to the United States of Amerikkka.
Thank you for doing the work ❤
Racist white system to destroy many black lives
The justice systems is terrible ly broken and it has been sweep underwhelming rug. By white and black governor , all mayor's all city council men any local or federa ,state .When a rich governor ,sheriff head do wronge publicly .they life is never. Dis rupted.When thangs boil over .thats when it's is too late. Lives are taking g senselessly this stress is stressful we have seen it n real life movie where a innocent black males are put n jail for a crime that a white person has done . Sloppy police work tells the truth . If notice every top postion n society always has a white person n charge. History of power greedy can hurt a family real bad. All u need the right ppl to lie to write up lies and need person to believe those lies and the court systems do not want save a innocent person from going to jail or loosing a child n the system. Once that happens those family have poor veiw on life. They just want to laid down and die. This what white America will do to shut u up from the truth. Their is corruption everywhere., abuse of power, an therapist wrote this is why there are so much suicide n prison ,n homes involving teen, the elderly being abruse. There's been n history where no procutors every spent time n jail for sending g a innocent person to jail by hidding the truth fro.m the defense team. And damping a investigation that not not tainted is hard to come by . If just take a good look at how many innocent been free after spending 30 years n prison for a crime e that this black male never commuted. U see the procutors do not believe n god .but they always saying rise yourright and put left on the bilble to swear to tell the truth. Hypocrisy.
This lady is gone but.....the POS Caucasians in the comments are talking about 9 kids?
This should be a crime for the system to do this to people.
Single mother of 9? Damn!
No small town living for me. This is RIDICULOUS 😮
The fact that she stated how old she is AND how many children she has Speaks volume that she is PROUD of her kids. You mean, nasty, self righteous hypocrites. Comment on the story NOT the person's life. She was put in jail for PARKING TICKETS !
So you are saying it should be ok for you to break the law, because it’s not convenient for you to follow it? Did someone tell you that? I don’t understand. If you don’t want this to happen, don’t break the law.
What did you do to get arrested in the first place?
So your absolutely clueless when she says traffic
@@gho7787 Well she wasn’t jailed for a traffic offense. She could, however, have been jailed because she got the ticket and blew it off or because she obstructed. Are you saying she shouldn’t be responsible for committing traffic violations or that it’s ok to blow tickets off if you get them?
@@ninadaly7639 it's clear you don't want to hear the truth so stop messaging me as if ANYBODY OWES YOU AN EXPLANATION OF HER LIFE.....she wasn't treated fairly over TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS BUT GO AHEAD KARMA KEEPS COMING AROUND FOR EVIL
@@gho7787 It’s clear YOU don’t want to accept the truth. I’m afraid you are just wrong. EVERYONE has to follow the law. Period.
Absolutely we always talking and not walking it
It’s absolutely horrible how they treat women but how they treat black women is ridiculous.
While I agree, can you not see this whole situation is her fault? She got the tickets and didn't pay. She says she can't cause she's a single mom of 9. Who's fault is that? Not the cops or the judge. The whole thing is her fault. I agree the law should change and hopefully it does but that doesn't change the facts. I feel sorry for not being able to go to her father's funeral and not being able to shower, that's it.
They treated her like that fror traffic tickets? Thats crazy overkill😢
I'm from Cleveland Ohio this is happening with minorities across the country
9 kids imagine if she stopped at one
Tainted And Painted DisciplinaryActions The Police Is A Very Sufficient Amount Of Corruption Problems Here In Missouri St.Louis City, Counties And Rural Areas.I Speak Facts🙄
The Officials,Organizations Community Leaders NAACP, Reacts To Injustices As If Its Acceptable😮 TO THE DOJ, TO THE HOUSING CRISIS TO PUBLIC SERVICES OFFICES, I FEEL IM TRAPPED IN A UNDERWORLD OF SLAVERY 🤔
I thought Ferguson was 70 percent black. Racism shouldn't be a problem
Thats right you fight for what’s right
The prison makes a lot of money. This is bs. Keeps them enslaved.
"The murs." Bless her ❤ Their certifications need to be revoked and certifications revoked and Chief pension lost.
While I agree the law needs to change this whole situation she put herself in. She's playing victim when she got the tickets, didn't pay them and they added up to where she couldn't. The only reason she couldn't is cause she is a single mom of 9 freaking kids! Stop having kids you can't afford. And I swear if you play the accidents happen card I'll laugh. She's irresponsible at best. There's way too many ways for these "accidents" not to happen. As women we need to do better for ourselves and our kids. I only feel sorry for her missing her father's funeral and not being able to shower.
Sue...
I jus wanna know if she has things in place for those kids jus in case
She died in 2023
@@godsaysyes2131 dam how??!?
How did she die????? Was she killed by the police???
Exactly 💯
"Single parent of nine!"
Inn My Prayers 🙏🙏🙏 May God Bless You Always Amen...
This is crazy for a town to make up their own rules & lock up a person after giving birth to a child over parking tickets.
UNMARRIED WITH 9 KIDS A DISGRACE
Please! don't forget about having sex while unmarried...🤮 Last I recall, you're suppose to flee from sexual immorality...Last I recall, giving birth was the fruit of the womb...Judgement goes both ways
Just like your comment 🥴
We gotta stop judging nobody's perfect champ
Your judgement is a disgrace
Oh god.. accountability!
" Why Did These People Have 2 Loose Their Lives Fighting 4 What's Right!!? Many Condolences To The Families Of Those Who Have Lost Their Lives 😮😢❤❤ May They All Continue To Rest In God's Heavenly Peace....In Jesus Christ Most Holy Name..AMEN And AMEN 🙏 🙌 ✨️ ❤️ 💖 ♥️ 🙏
St. Louis burned, so everyone moved to the Pruitt Igoe projects. Another 20 years went by and those buildings fell apart, and the residents went to Ferguson. Then Ferguson was horrible by 2000, with the worst policing-for-profit ever. I wish the residents had all left.
Fight evil all day every day with the strength of the Lord...1.🙌🏾
Amen
In the mighty name of Jesus 👑
SMH
Thank you
They keep a bible in court but, do they keep the Torah, no they DON'T!!! 👿
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I am family of nine from a disadvantage family but the stabilizing was having a father and mother.The six boys grew up respect family and never leave their kids alone.
Riiiight. As soon as she said single mother of 9 I came to comment, how in the heck is there 9 kids and NO FATHER FIGURE smh I sympathize with her struggles but sometimes we cause our own tribulations. But God bless her and those babies❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
This lady was the lead plaintiff of $4.5 million dollar law suit called the Debtor Suit...Collectively there was over 15,000 people involved in this Civil Suit against Ferguson....The suit is dating back from Feb 8 2010 to Dec 30 2022...Other settlements have been reached in 7 civil suits totaling almost $20 million dollars...There was another woman by the name of Tonya Deberry( known as a original litigant) that was apart of this civil suit died as well
I notice at the end of the video that she passed away in May 2023 😢. I wonder if the lawsuit was in any way connected to her passing. 🤔 I hope not. And what about the 9 children she left behind?? 😢
@@tinamckenna7514 Imo, it's not a coincidence
58 days you didn’t want to take a shower it’s differently showers in the county
Maybe they couldn’t which actually sounds like what she meant…
I’m proud of you, your strength has helped so many of us push through the tough times 💐
Hi. I remember in the 80's and 90's those same areas had mandatory check points . They would use the lot at Lucas and Hunt @Natural bridge as the round about. Every vehicle for blocks were searched. All passengers, search. So sad.
I have no sympathy for her she shouldn't even be on camera I'm with you where is the fathers?
You're sympathy won't stop her impact. You heard all that AND yet still miss the entire message
It's seems as though she knew her father. You don't know how much he was in her life. Seems like someone has summed her up to be a sad little black girl from a broken home.😮
With all that's going on the flooding and burning down towns. And the only thing the universe asks of us is to be loving caring and sympathetic to one another which cost nothing... But your ignorance shines through, my the universe continue to cast hardships upon this earth until we are rid of people of your likes ......
She's deceased she doesn't need your sympathy.She didn't need it when she was alive.