One year after the immigration raids that shook Mississippi communities, the U.S. Attorney’s Office issues indictments against processing plant management.

Then, a Mississippi judge’s opinion on qualified immunity scrutinizes a practice that has shielded law enforcement officers.

Plus, member institutions of the NCAA’s Division III won’t be playing sports this fall. We talk to the A.D. of one of Mississippi’s D-3 schools.

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One year ago today, agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided seven central Mississippi chicken processing plants, detaining over 600 undocumented workers. It was the largest single-state raid in American history. Now, the U.S. Attorney's office is holding management of those plants accountable through indictments against four plant executives. MPB's Desare Frazier talks with U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst.

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"Clarence Jamison wasn't jaywalking. He wasn't outside playing with a toy gun. He didn't look like a "suspicious person". He wasn't suspected of "selling loose, untaxed cigarettes". He wasn't suspected of passing a counterfeit $20 bill." Those are the first five lines of U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves' opinion upholding a claim of qualified immunity for officer Nick McClendon. Reeves gives 19 different examples of what Jamison, a Black man, wasn't doing when he was pulled over by McClendon - each example invoking the memory of other Black men and women whose lives were ended through excessive police force. Reeves further opined the "qualified immunity" doctrine operates like absolute immunity in real life.

But based on legal precedent, Reeves was compelled to uphold the doctrine. Jarvis Dortch is the Executive Director of the Mississippi Chapter of the ACLU. He shares his thoughts on Reeve's opinion with our Kobee Vance.

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College sports in the NCAA's two lower levels won't take place this fall. On Wednesday the Presidents Councils for the governing body's Divisions II and III announced they would cancel fall championships for the 2020-2021 seasons. This decision means Mississippi's member schools like Mississippi College, Delta State, and Belhaven will have to re-imagine what their sports calendars will look like as they adjust plans to potentially play fall sports in the spring. Aaron Pelch is the Athletic Director of Millsaps College, a NCAA D-3 school. He says schools are awaiting guidance from the NCAA regarding what possibilities exist for fall sports. He shares his plans and reaction to the decision with us.

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