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‘Voter Intimidation’: Police Set Up Checkpoint Near HBCU Ahead Of Election (atlantadailyworld.com)

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From the Atlanta Daily World:

Photo: Getty Images The Mississippi NAACP is calling out Capitol police for setting up safety checkpoints near Jackson State University ahead of the state’s general election, WAPT reports. “Setting up roadblocks near precincts is a very suspicious form of voter intimidation,” NAACP Jackson President Nsombi Lambright said in a statement. On Monday (November 6), Capitol … Continued

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[–] bl4ckblooc 3 points 1 year ago

I have always failed to see how random police checkpoints are not a violation of rights.

[–] grue 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I wish the bot was a little bit smarter about posting on-topic articles. In !atlantanews I want to see news about Atlanta, not news about Mississippi that happened to be published by an Atlanta media outlet.

Don't get me wrong: I do want to see this article; I just want to see it posted somewhere like [email protected] instead. (And the appropriate Jackson and/or Mississippi communities, of course, although I wouldn't see it since I don't subscribe to those.)