https://www.raceandequityproject.org/about-mentor daily 0.75 2024-01-05 https://www.raceandequityproject.org/article daily 0.75 2026-08-07 https://www.raceandequityproject.org/article/illinois-immigrants-finding-success-challenging-detention-in-federal-court monthly 0.5 2026-07-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6370701bc8e94f172b473126/ef37cb47-ca58-42c9-b08f-9507556b07c4/19_ZayraGuzman_091.jpg Latest News - Immigrants with longtime community ties and U.S. citizen children are finding success challenging their detention in federal court - Make it stand out In October, Nayra Guzmán, an immigrant from Mexico, filed a wrongful detention lawsuit — known as a habeas corpus petition — at the federal court in Chicago after being detained at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview. | Photo by Jamie Kelter Davis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6370701bc8e94f172b473126/ee6f3933-f95f-4a7f-8689-64a7c4a57e40/2.jpg Latest News - Immigrants with longtime community ties and U.S. citizen children are finding success challenging their detention in federal court - Make it stand out Nayra Guzmán, her brother and their mother were ordered released by a federal judge about 36 hours after they were detained. | Photo by Jamie Kelter Davis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6370701bc8e94f172b473126/72fa032e-3677-4458-8b97-726da34a6579/3.jpg Latest News - Immigrants with longtime community ties and U.S. citizen children are finding success challenging their detention in federal court - Make it stand out At the Broadview detention facility, ICE agents made Nayra Guzmán remove her postpartum wrap, which she was wearing to help her recover from an emergency cesarean section 15 days earlier. | Photo by Jamie Kelter Davis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6370701bc8e94f172b473126/46c75765-0550-42bc-84c4-03c54dad5b2c/4.jpg Latest News - Immigrants with longtime community ties and U.S. citizen children are finding success challenging their detention in federal court - Make it stand out Seven months after their detention, Nayra Guzmán and her brother Carlos say they constantly worry about being detained again by ICE agents. | Photo by Jamie Kelter Davis https://www.raceandequityproject.org/article/illinois-votes-to-overhaul-states-property-tax-sale-laws monthly 0.5 2026-06-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6370701bc8e94f172b473126/7b5bd3fc-71d7-4ccd-8b5b-2dba30649651/120619048057.jpg Latest News - Illinois tax sales get an overhaul, but how much will homeowners benefit? - Make it stand out Illinois lawmakers passed a bill May 30 to overhaul the state’s tax sale laws, which had previously been found to be unconstitutional. | Seth Perlman/AP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6370701bc8e94f172b473126/3e4dc910-0d59-4376-ba42-7b44da5527dc/MaywodHomeowner12.JPG Latest News - Illinois tax sales get an overhaul, but how much will homeowners benefit? - Make it stand out Velma Lewis lost this Maywood two-flat to tax foreclosure in 2019, after she fell behind on about $6,200 in property taxes. The tax debt was sold to a private investor, who ultimately took the deed — and the full $180,000 value of the property. | Abel Uribe for Injustice Watch https://www.raceandequityproject.org/article/steps-illinois-lawmakers-could-take-to-reform-the-states-tax-sale-laws monthly 0.5 2026-06-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6370701bc8e94f172b473126/44430f11-62cb-4b4d-8109-4fa5dbf474ab/SPRINGFIELD-05.jpg Latest News - Steps Illinois lawmakers could take to reform the state’s tax sale laws - Make it stand out Illinois is the last state in the nation to adopt reforms aimed at giving homeowners their fair share of tax sale proceeds. | Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6370701bc8e94f172b473126/b4a706f8-1772-4558-a3bb-f9412f1d3119/villanueva.jpg Latest News - Steps Illinois lawmakers could take to reform the state’s tax sale laws - Make it stand out In this year’s legislative session, state Sen. Celina Villanueva, D-Chicago, is pushing for a tax sale law reform. | John O'Connor / AP https://www.raceandequityproject.org/article/tax-buyer-greg-bingham-accused-defrauding-cook-county monthly 0.5 2026-06-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6370701bc8e94f172b473126/60463d85-9235-4bd1-a51c-904145ad9638/Bingham_Main.jpg Latest News - The King of Liens - Make it stand out Illustration by Verónica Martinez / Injustice Watch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6370701bc8e94f172b473126/a7c37645-0094-42b7-b96c-cbe005ef77f5/20260203_BinghamProperties_TG_041.jpg Latest News - The King of Liens - Make it stand out Greg Bingham operates his empire of tax foreclosed homes — and many of his limited liability companies — out of an office in this strip mall in suburban Northlake, sandwiched between an old piano store and a dental clinic. | Taylor Glascock for Injustice Watch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6370701bc8e94f172b473126/f65aac67-14c2-4c77-9332-32cc3cd0f3cb/Lighty.JPG Latest News - The King of Liens - Make it stand out Todd Lighty, former deputy director of research at the Cook County Treasurer’s Office, led an inquiry into Bingham. In memos to state and federal law enforcement, he alleged Bingham had engaged in widespread fraud. Bingham has not been charged with a crime. | Illustration by Verónica Martinez/Injustice Watch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6370701bc8e94f172b473126/f0eeb304-bd7b-4b42-9301-b93e20c9d300/calumet+city+notice+cropped.png Latest News - The King of Liens - Make it stand out According to court and police records, Bingham dispatched environmental inspectors to gain entry to a strip mall armed with this fake, typo-ridden notice purporting to be from Calumet City officials. | Cook County Circuit Court records https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6370701bc8e94f172b473126/8e15a8d0-bc40-4264-ac4e-6eaacbd62b05/Bingham_PB+Graphic.jpg Latest News - The King of Liens - Make it stand out Bingham’s companies submitted recycled photos purporting to show the interior of different properties that had been destroyed after they were acquired through the annual tax auction, court records show. A Treasurer’s Office probe confirmed by Injustice Watch found that this strategy allowed Bingham’s companies to obtain government refunds on the properties. | Illustration by Verónica Martinez / Injustice Watch; photos from court records https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6370701bc8e94f172b473126/7dae0cb8-e0c1-4055-95a1-761746b8a445/Mailer-wide.png Latest News - The King of Liens - Make it stand out Two sides of a 2003 mailer from URB Inc., a real estate rehab joint venture between Bingham and a former business partner, filed as part of a consumer fraud complaint against the company. | Illinois Attorney General’s Office https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6370701bc8e94f172b473126/3479741f-64a6-4ec9-8d54-a91002853109/20260203_BinghamProperties_TG_023.jpg Latest News - The King of Liens - Make it stand out In 2010, Bingham evicted a seasoned contractor and Baptist preacher named Maurice Johnson from this home (right) in West Englewood. Johnson, who had purchased the home to rehab and flip it, was unable to find a new third-party buyer or come up with the money he owed, court records show. | Taylor Glascock for Injustice Watch https://www.raceandequityproject.org/article/cook-county-tax-foreclosures-ford-heights-charles-griffin-homes monthly 0.5 2026-06-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6370701bc8e94f172b473126/4bda7ea3-f2ab-4898-a865-dfcaf7de8f3f/20251212_Foreclosures_TG_108.jpg Latest News - Cook County allows tax foreclosures by municipalities. Poor oversight led to misuse by local officials. - Make it stand out Zella Croff, 73, lost her house in south suburban Markham to tax foreclosure in 2023. | Taylor Glascock for the Investigative Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6370701bc8e94f172b473126/ee93f32b-3e75-42f4-b692-1462c3dcb11c/Griffin.jpg Latest News - Cook County allows tax foreclosures by municipalities. Poor oversight led to misuse by local officials. - Make it stand out Charles Griffin, former mayor of Ford Heights / Chicago Sun-Times https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6370701bc8e94f172b473126/bfb5cb32-7bcb-4ae2-918f-ac48b99af23c/20251212_Foreclosures_TG_302.jpg Latest News - Cook County allows tax foreclosures by municipalities. Poor oversight led to misuse by local officials. - Make it stand out The village of Ford Heights gave away this house at 1408 E. 15th St. after seizing it through tax foreclosure in 2016. | Taylor Glascock for the Investigative Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6370701bc8e94f172b473126/5f40dfa8-51e8-4346-bd1a-4c26ce646aec/20251212_Foreclosures_TG_289.jpg Latest News - Cook County allows tax foreclosures by municipalities. Poor oversight led to misuse by local officials. - Make it stand out Ford Heights’ current mayor, Freddie Wilson, was one of 21 residents who received a village-owned house for free during Charles Griffin’s terms as mayor. | Taylor Glascock for the Investigative Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6370701bc8e94f172b473126/e6a0fc54-671f-4a68-b859-4727fb782c7c/20251212_Foreclosures_TG_306.jpg Latest News - Cook County allows tax foreclosures by municipalities. Poor oversight led to misuse by local officials. - Make it stand out A family member of Griffin’s has owned this house at 1412 E. 15th St. since receiving a deed just days before Griffin finished his first term in office in 2017. | Taylor Glascock for the Investigative Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6370701bc8e94f172b473126/abae79fa-f92a-49af-81e7-8334b8f5b261/20251212_Foreclosures_TG_207.jpg Latest News - Cook County allows tax foreclosures by municipalities. Poor oversight led to misuse by local officials. - Make it stand out Zella Croff questions why Markham officials seized her house, only to keep it unoccupied and unprotected. | Taylor Glascock for the Investigative Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6370701bc8e94f172b473126/0e9e28b0-bd43-4163-9e84-f4ca0020f3de/Untitled+design.jpg Latest News - Cook County allows tax foreclosures by municipalities. Poor oversight led to misuse by local officials. - Make it stand out The city of Markham seized the split-level house on Spaulding Avenue in 2023. Since then, the city has cited itself for poorly maintaining the property. | Taylor Glascock for the Investigative Project https://www.raceandequityproject.org/article/feds-used-chemical-agents-dozens-times-chicago monthly 0.5 2026-06-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6370701bc8e94f172b473126/acf06895-0ef4-4dd2-b48f-af502bc09ae7/TearGas1.jpg Latest News - Feds used chemical agents dozens of times in Chicago - Make it stand out Scenes from a clash at 105th and Avenue N on Chicago's East Side between federal agents and residents on Oct. 14. | Matthew Kaplan for Block Club Chicago https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6370701bc8e94f172b473126/136c4421-9353-4948-aa90-ef2644af63b7/TearGas2.jpg Latest News - Feds used chemical agents dozens of times in Chicago - Make it stand out Federal agents use nonlethal weapons including tear gas against protesters in Brighton Park on Saturday, Oct. 4. | Daniel Delgado https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6370701bc8e94f172b473126/990c63c9-8f54-41e7-ae9e-8496a41352cc/TearGas3.jpg Latest News - Feds used chemical agents dozens of times in Chicago - Make it stand out Agents deploy smoke bombs at 105th and Avenue N on Chicago's East Side during a tense standoff with residents. | Matthew Kaplan for Block Club Chicago https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6370701bc8e94f172b473126/46fe13a6-cee9-40c4-902c-2a12e6fe4180/TearGas4.jpg Latest News - Feds used chemical agents dozens of times in Chicago - Make it stand out A federal agent holds up what appears to be a canister of chemical agent as federal agents detained a construction worker in the 3300 block of North Lakewood Avenue in Lakeview, and then threw chemical agents at responding neighbors on Oct. 24. | Colin Boyle/Block Club Chicago https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6370701bc8e94f172b473126/09407f45-2bea-41bb-b550-6f57ecc3cad0/TearGas5.jpg Latest News - Feds used chemical agents dozens of times in Chicago - Make it stand out Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino stands at the front as dozens of neighbors confront federal agents in Cicero just outside Little Village as the agents conduct immigration raids in the area on Oct. 22. | Colin Boyle/Block Club Chicago https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6370701bc8e94f172b473126/09855e78-f643-4825-a356-1290937f37c6/TearGas7.jpg Latest News - Feds used chemical agents dozens of times in Chicago - Make it stand out Agents deploy tear gas and smoke grenades during a clash between federal agents and residents at 105th and Avenue N on Chicago's East Side on Oct. 14. | Matthew Kaplan for Block Club Chicago https://www.raceandequityproject.org/article/property-tax-foreclosure-reform-gets-put-off-by-illinois-legislators monthly 0.5 2026-06-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6370701bc8e94f172b473126/63ed1504-c5c5-443c-8828-e3019b163d57/WATCHHOMES-051625-01.JPG Latest News - Property-tax foreclosure reform gets put off by Illinois legislators - Make it stand out Velma Lewis who is from Maywood, is one of hundreds of Black homeowners in Cook County that lose homes and/or equity each year to white investors in tax foreclosure under segregation-era law. | Brian Ernst/Sun-Times https://www.raceandequityproject.org/article/illinois-campus-police-pull-over-outsized-number-of-black-drivers monthly 0.5 2026-06-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6370701bc8e94f172b473126/1745938505592-PNNN0MOBABIL1NP9ZBJN/Michael_02.jpg Latest News - Illinois public college police pull over outsized number of Black drivers - Make it stand out Michael Burton sits for a portrait on the campus of Southern Illinois University where he is a student in the honors program, Monday, April 28, 2025 in Carbondale, Illinois. Burton was pulled over by campus police and had his car towed and impounded. (Julia Rendleman for the Investigative Project on Race and Equity) https://www.raceandequityproject.org/article/illinois-is-the-last-state-to-unlawfully-strip-wealth-from-homeowners-caught-in-tax-foreclosure monthly 0.5 2026-06-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6370701bc8e94f172b473126/a9dc48f3-05b6-474e-9ad1-1e5518e14a02/IMG_4703.jpg Latest News - Illinois is the last state to unlawfully strip wealth from homeowners caught in tax foreclosure - Make it stand out Illustration by Verónica Martinez https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6370701bc8e94f172b473126/fa8680e2-f72f-43f6-9565-f1ca55835c07/WATCHHOMES-051625-02.webp Latest News - Illinois is the last state to unlawfully strip wealth from homeowners caught in tax foreclosure - Make it stand out Velma Lewis stands outside her rental apartment in Lombard, Illinois. Lewis, who is from Maywood, is one of hundreds of Black homeowners in Cook County that lose homes and/or equity each year to private investors in tax foreclosure under a segregation-era law. | Brian Ernst/Sun-Times https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6370701bc8e94f172b473126/f8e71fe7-5b18-4ffb-a683-3decfc146e3c/J.B._Pritzker_press_conference_210226-Z-AZ071-3003.jpg Latest News - Illinois is the last state to unlawfully strip wealth from homeowners caught in tax foreclosure - Make it stand out Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker | Staff Sgt. Aaron Rodriguez / U.S. National Guard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6370701bc8e94f172b473126/bb85cc0a-5a22-414c-b872-1881d6b223a8/WARD-LILLIAN-K.-TAX-DELINQUENT-PROPERTY-0003A.3725-scaled.webp Latest News - Illinois is the last state to unlawfully strip wealth from homeowners caught in tax foreclosure - Make it stand out Lillian Ware was involved in a high-profile property tax foreclosure case in the early 1970s. The Evanston resident lost her bungalow to investor Allan Blair over a tax bill of around $40. | Chicago Sun-Times file https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6370701bc8e94f172b473126/7d6b2b4d-c3b1-45ff-bb8d-0e023221a1b1/Grid-2+%282%29.webp Latest News - Illinois is the last state to unlawfully strip wealth from homeowners caught in tax foreclosure - Make it stand out Here are a few homes owned by seniors lost to property tax foreclosure in the last six years. Most of the images show the homes in the year before they were lost. | Google Maps https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6370701bc8e94f172b473126/1cd6af38-235d-4cb4-8037-cb8be2d08c59/Diptych-home-scaled+%281%29.png Latest News - Illinois is the last state to unlawfully strip wealth from homeowners caught in tax foreclosure - Make it stand out Velma Lewis took out a 30-year mortgage to buy back her home after losing it to tax foreclosure. | Abel Uribe for Injustice Watch https://www.raceandequityproject.org/article/chicago-police-traffic-stops-have-left-230-people-injured-and-hospitalized-in-recent-years monthly 0.5 2026-06-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6370701bc8e94f172b473126/49de9088-eb89-48cb-8daa-3e3d1e885ef0/cpd-rogers-park.webp Latest News - Chicago police traffic stops have left 230 people injured and hospitalized in recent years - Make it stand out A Chicago police officer from the Rogers Park District gives a ticket to a driver with expired license plates during a traffic stop on North Western Avenue near West Pratt Boulevard in Rogers Park on the North Side on Tuesday. | Ashlee Rezin / Sun-Times https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6370701bc8e94f172b473126/a90d9e9c-240b-4388-bbb9-3f0ca38a3f94/officer.png Latest News - Chicago police traffic stops have left 230 people injured and hospitalized in recent years - Make it stand out Slain Chicago police Officer Ella French | Chicago Police Department https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6370701bc8e94f172b473126/4aa2b4e8-313b-47e1-ac97-e868ae566fd8/Lee-Scott-Friedman.png Latest News - Chicago police traffic stops have left 230 people injured and hospitalized in recent years - Make it stand out University of Illinois at Chicago professor Lee Scott Friedman. | Joshua Clark/University of Illinois https://www.raceandequityproject.org/article/chicago-cops-have-been-making-fewer-traffic-stops-but-more-are-ending-in-violence monthly 0.5 2026-06-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6370701bc8e94f172b473126/2dddf984-7fd4-4f0d-a135-20edd1628137/Screenshot+2025-04-17+at+6.32.11%E2%80%AFPM.png Latest News - Chicago cops have been making fewer traffic stops, but more are ending in violence - Make it stand out Tactical officers from the Chicago Police Department’s Harrison District surround Dexter Reed’s SUV before he was fatally wounded in a shootout with the police on March 21, 2024. | Civilian Office of Police Accountability https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6370701bc8e94f172b473126/6bf970cb-eb36-46be-8073-44521cfd6e63/download+%284%29.webp Latest News - Chicago cops have been making fewer traffic stops, but more are ending in violence - Make it stand out Before Dexter Reed (left) was killed in a shootout with police during a traffic stop, he was a star basketball player at Westinghouse College Prep in Humboldt Park. | Worsom Robinson / Sun-Times https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6370701bc8e94f172b473126/795e020c-2955-40e5-bbb0-e9e49a0bcaba/download+%285%29.webp Latest News - Chicago cops have been making fewer traffic stops, but more are ending in violence - Make it stand out Eric Wilkins, a plaintiff in a lawsuit filed by the ACLU of Illinois against the Chicago Police Department. | Pat Nabong / Sun-Times https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6370701bc8e94f172b473126/716a63fb-3a84-4747-ac98-991b0871bee6/download+%286%29.webp Latest News - Chicago cops have been making fewer traffic stops, but more are ending in violence - Make it stand out Officer Fernando Ruiz is seen aiming his gun at Raymond Comer during a shooting Aug. 12, 2022. Ruiz faces dismissal from the Chicago Police Department for the fatal shooting of another man, Reginald Clay, during a foot pursuit eight months later. | Cook County court records https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6370701bc8e94f172b473126/38434594-f055-45b4-ae6c-a3e50b6b2014/download+%287%29.webp Latest News - Chicago cops have been making fewer traffic stops, but more are ending in violence - Make it stand out A memorial pin honoring slain Officer Ella French. | Ashlee Rezin / Sun-Times https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6370701bc8e94f172b473126/c33575db-22ff-4454-99f2-7a2da47fe4db/download+%288%29.webp Latest News - Chicago cops have been making fewer traffic stops, but more are ending in violence - Make it stand out Dexter Reed’s mother Nicole Banks at a news conference on April 24, 2024, to announce a lawsuit against the city of Chicago and five officers over the fatal shooting of her son by police. | Pat Nabong / Sun-Times https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6370701bc8e94f172b473126/5099df1e-ec05-4f3d-a2e3-7661ca55ec26/download+%289%29.webp Latest News - Chicago cops have been making fewer traffic stops, but more are ending in violence - Make it stand out Alexandra Block, an attorney for the ACLU of Illinois. | Zubaer Khan / Sun-Times https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6370701bc8e94f172b473126/d3f863bc-4255-403e-8974-76bd6dc2147e/download+%2810%29.webp Latest News - Chicago cops have been making fewer traffic stops, but more are ending in violence - Make it stand out Jasmine Smith, an activist with the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression: “Our lives don’t matter. Our rights don’t matte. That’s the message that’s been out.” | Pat Nabong / Sun-Times https://www.raceandequityproject.org/article/sensitive-migrant-data-mishandled-former-chicago-shelter-contractors-allege monthly 0.5 2024-12-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6370701bc8e94f172b473126/1732215552952-WVBAXN63J1AZA8Y9Y12W/shelter.jpg Latest News - Sensitive migrant data mishandled, former Chicago shelter contractors allege - Make it stand out People hang out in front of what was Chicago’s largest migrant shelter in Pilsen on Feb. 23, 2024. The city closed this shelter in September. Mauricio Peña/Borderless Magazine https://www.raceandequityproject.org/article/leaving-venezuela-the-only-option-for-us-was-the-united-states monthly 0.5 2024-12-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6370701bc8e94f172b473126/1731972223090-XZ0J9EM31TG4M6B5JKVM/2024_10_28_Migrant+Portraits_IPRE_Lead_.jpg Latest News - Leaving Venezuela: ‘The only option for us was the United States’ - Make it stand out Photo illustration by Max Herman/Borderless Magazine. Photos by Max Herman/Borderless Magazine and Efrain Soriano for Borderless Magazine. Map from Canva. https://www.raceandequityproject.org/article/city-contractor-failed-clients-as-migrant-shelter-complaints-mounted-staffers-say monthly 0.5 2024-12-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6370701bc8e94f172b473126/368a320e-454f-4574-8ed9-a51eb4759454/2024_10_28_IPRE+Favorite+Staffing_Web_01.jpg Latest News - City contractor ‘failed’ clients as migrant shelter complaints mounted, staffers say - Make it stand out Reina Jerez Garcia, pictured on the far South Side with her husband, German Median, and sons, Victor Garcia, William Garcia and Yefferson Garcia, lived in a shelter on Chicago’s far North Side run by Favorite Healthcare Staffing. Garcia said she received unacceptably small food portions and limited drinking water when she lived at the shelter. Efrain Soriano for Borderless Magazine. https://www.raceandequityproject.org/article/expert-says-excessive-traffic-stops-and-videos-of-police-killings-can-cause-trauma-for-some monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6370701bc8e94f172b473126/1714159837109-F88HE0WS8D3O8YYOXCZD/c3d252b1-191e-4d14-a75c-9f6235b67ec9.jpg Latest News - Expert says excessive traffic stops and videos of police killings can cause trauma for some - Make it stand out On April 17, 2024, Bruce Davis stands in front of his garage in the Humboldt Park neighborhood on Chicago's West Side, near the location where police shot and killed Dexter Reed. A home camera on Davis’ front window captured video of the altercation and the discharging of nearly 96 shots on March 21, 2024. 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