MISSION STATEMENT
WhatKid BLOOD is a movement AGAINST PREDATORY INJUSTICE, MISCONDUCT, AND THE ABUSE OF THE SYSTEM. WhatKid BLOOD means transcendence and making noise together to have a voice FOR our RIGHTS!!!
Capitalistic PREDATORS don't deserve to roam free while the innocent, wrongfully accused, marginalized, and disadvantaged, suffer the effects of their actions. WE BELIEVE IN HOLDING OPPORTUNISTIC THIEVES LEGALLY ACCOUNTABLE for THEIR MISCONDUCT by promoting the reform of the criminal justice system to raise awareness and prevent further damage.
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We want to EXPOSE ABUSES OF AUTHORITY, LOUD AND CLEAR!
We hope to build a community of support and care that uplifts and sustains us. Let's use the message and power of song as a call to action to come together, to listen to and support each other, and to work towards a world where everyone can live free from oppression and violence. Every donation, no matter the size, makes a difference. Show your support, join us in our mission to bring relief to victims of injustices. Your donation will support our efforts to provide resources, healing, and forwarded funding to the most relevant organizations who fight injustice, and spread awareness.
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Be a part of the Innocence Project’s groundbreaking work to free innocent people and transform the legal system. With your support, we can do even more — donate today.
The Legal Project provides access to the protections of the law to advance the safety, stability and independence of the people we serve and strengthen our communities. We do this by advising, advocating for and representing people who have traditionally had difficulty obtaining civil legal assistance.
Our mission is simple and steadfast: To exonerate the actually innocent.
Fighting to Free the Forgotten: Non-DNA Innocence
The Innocence Network is an affiliation of 69 organizations from all over the world dedicated to providing pro bono legal and investigative services to individuals seeking to prove innocence of crimes for which they have been convicted, and working to redress the causes of wrongful convictions. Currently, the Innocence Network consists of 56 U.S. based and 13 non-U.S. based organizations.
Complaints For Misconduct
In NY: https://cjc.ny.gov/General.Information/Gen.Info.Pages/filecomplaint.html
- The American Bar Association has a directory of lawyer disciplinary agencies and bar associations for each state. You can access it at https://www.americanbar.org/groups/professional_responsibility/resources/state_disciplinary_agencies/.
- The National Center for State Courts provides links to judicial conduct commissions and agencies for each state. You can access it at https://www.ncsc.org/topics/judicial-ethics/judicial-conduct-commissions.
- The Judicial Conduct and Disability Act, which governs the process for filing a complaint against a federal judge, can be found at https://www.fjc.gov/content/judicial-conduct-and-disability-act.
FACTS & STATS
Miscarriage of justice
A miscarriage of justice, also known as a failure of justice, occurs when a person is convicted and punished for a crime that they did not commit. It is seldom used as a legal defense in criminal and deportation proceedings.
- The very first wrongful imprisonment case wasn’t tried until 1989. Since then, 35 states have had wrongful conviction cases successfully tried.
- Of the over 300 wrongful conviction cases tried, 18 of the individuals were serving time on death row, and would have been actually put to death were it not for their exonerations.
- The wrongfully convicted spent an average time of 13.6 years in jail/prison, totaling up to over 4,000 years total spent behind bars.
- The wrongfully convicted are an average of 27 years old.
- DNA testing has led to not only previously convicted being exonerated and released, but also to protecting innocent individuals from serving time in the first place. Tens of thousands of cases have ended with the prosecution’s main suspect being proven completely innocent by DNA.
- Kim Kardashian West is staying true to her pledge to fight for prison reform; has been helping win the freedom of 17 inmates, two attorneys told CNN.
- About 231,000 women were detained in jails and prisons across the U.S. in 2019, with approximately 101,000 being held in local jails. Among the women in these local jails, 60% had not yet been found guilty of a crime and were awaiting trial.
- More than 60% of women in prison have children under the age of 18 and nearly 80% of women in jail are mothers, the Prison Policy Initiative reports. Incarcerated women tend to be single parents or primary caretakers more often than incarcerated men, according to the Vera Institute. This means that their incarceration is likely to have a major impact on their children and family members. Many children of incarcerated mothers are placed in foster care.
- Most female exonerees were convicted of crimes that never occurred.
- Nearly 71% of women exonerated in the last 31 years were wrongfully convicted of crimes that never took place at all, according to data from the National Registry of Exonerations. These “crimes” included events determined to be accidents, deaths by suicide and crimes that were fabricated.
- About 40% of female exonerees were wrongly convicted of harming their children or other loved ones in their care.
- Almost one-third of female exonerees were convicted of crimes in which the victim was a child, according to data from the National Registry of Exonerations.
- In ¼ of all the wrongful conviction cases, incriminating or false statements/confessions were the cause of imprisonment. In roughly 1/10 cases, the individuals had actually plead guilty to charges.
- The most common thing leading to false imprisonment is Eyewitness Misidentification Testimony.
- In roughly half of the 300 cases, the actual suspects were later found and arrested.
RECENT CASES:
The police beating of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man in Memphis, has led to repercussions for public servants involved in the incident. Five Black officers have been indicted on seven counts each, including second-degree murder, and are due to be arraigned on February 17. Two other officers, one White and one not publicly identified, remain under investigation. Three Memphis Fire Department staffers have been terminated and two Shelby County Sheriff's Office deputies were put on leave. The fired officers were part of the disbanded SCORPION unit created to tackle crime in the city. None of the fired officers had been previously disciplined for excessive force.
RECENT CASES:
- On May 25th, George Floyd, a 46-year old Black man, was killed by police after an officer kneeled on his neck for nearly nine minutes. Floyd’s life and future is one of many taken unjustly by police brutality. Between 2013 and 2019, police violence in the United States led to the deaths of 7,666 people, most of them Black Americans. The number of police killings in the country disproportionately affects Black people, who are three times as likely as white Americans to be killed by the police. In 8 of the 100 largest cities in the United States, police departments kill Black men at higher rates than the U.S. murder rate itself. It makes no difference the crime rate of the city—levels of violent crime in U.S. cities do not determine rates of police violence. And rarely is there ever any accountability; in 99% of the cases where an officer killed a civilian between 2013 – 2019, the officer was not charged with a crime.