The #JournoList
July 15, 2015
The #JournoList is a daily roundup of the events and issues that are making headlines. Compiled by Teddy Wilson, a reporter who covers reproductive rights for RH Reality Check. Follow him on Twitter: @txindyjourno
- President Obama called for a sweeping bipartisan effort to fix what he called “a broken system” of criminal justice that has locked up too many Americans for too long, especially a whole generation of young black and Hispanic men. (New York Times)
- Authorities are pleading for patience in a small Mississippi town as they investigate why a black man died following a physical encounter with a white police officer. (Associated Press)
- The family of Eric Garner, a black man who died after a white police officer put him in a chokehold a year ago, renewed calls to criminally charge the police officer, a day after the family reached a $5.9 million settlement with New York City. (Reuters)
- A federal judge ordered a suburban Los Angeles city to release video of the police fatally shooting an unarmed man two years ago. (New York Times)
- Missouri put to death a man convicted of murdering a 19-year-old woman he encountered in a traffic accident in 2001, in the first execution in the United States since the Supreme Court upheld the use of a lethal injection drug. (Reuters)
- Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the most wanted of Mexico’s drug lords, would have breezed along the mile-long tunnel dug just for him on a specially modified motorcycle or one of the two carts it pushed on two steel rails. (Associated Press)
Photo: Journalists work in the daily Le Monde newsroom at their offices in Paris.