A.M. Links: Walker over Barrett, Obama over Romney in Wisconsin, Honor Roll Student Roughed Up in Bloomberg’s New York, Mother of Deported American Girl Suing

A.M. Links: Walker over Barrett, Obama over Romney in Wisconsin, Honor Roll Student Roughed Up in Bloomberg’s New York, Mother of Deported American Girl Suing

| May 24, 2012

  • not the finger-in-your-face greetingA new Reason-Rupe poll
    shows     Governor Scott Walker leading Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett
    in the Wisconsin recall election set for June 5. Though Walker
    leads 52-41 among likely recall voters, President Obama leads 45-41
    in that group as well. Topline
    results    , crosstabs.
  • Oh
    look    , the San Diego civilian police review board is
    chock-full of cops and pro-cop sentiment, according to a grand
    jury report.
  • A fifteen-year-old honor student in Brooklyn
    spent     three hours handcuffed to a bench at a police station
    after  being mistaken for a shoplifting suspect and roughed up
    by cops.  “I feel my daughter was racially profiled,” her
    father said. “They had no proof, just a description of a black
    young lady with braids.”
  • Mayor Bloomberg
    thinks     the federal government should force cities to take in
    immigrants. “[T]hat’s the only solution for these big, hollowed-out
    cities where industry has left and is never going to come back
    unless you get some people to move there,” he said.
  • The mother of a 14-year-old American girl deported to Colombia
    after providing authorities with a fake name has
    filed     a federal civil rights law suit against top officials,
    accusing them of illegally detaining and deporting her
    daughter.
  • The police and firefighters unions in DC
    suspect     foul play in personnel documents found burning in a
    dumpster outside the Fire Department’s training academy last week.
    They may have included documents sought through FOIA requests.

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