(AP) — The NAACP warns that “separate and unequal policing” will return to Mississippi’s majority-Black capital under a state-run police department, and the civil rights organization is suing the governor and other officials over it. Derrick Johnson, the national president of the NAACP, is himself a resident of Jackson. The governor said this week that the Jackson Police Department is severely understaffed and he believes the state-run Capitol Police can provide stability. Another law will create a temporary court within a Capitol Complex Improvement District covering a portion of Jackson. The judge of the new court is not required to live in Jackson and will be appointed by the Mississippi Supreme Court chief justice.

Source: thestar April 22, 2023 23:01 UTC