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Personal news: I left @AP after 2.5 great years to join @MSTODAYnews as a political reporter. I’m thrilled to pick up where I left off in Mississippi and to join a team of reporters I’ve long admired!
Michael Goldberg
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Michael Goldberg
@mikergoldberg
@MSTodaynews political reporter | former @AP reporter | @USCAnnenberg & @Report4America alum | [email protected]
Jackson, MS
Joined February 2020
- Police have “terrorized” Black residents in a small Mississippi town by subjecting them to false arrests, excessive force and intimidation, according to a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday by a civil rights organization. @AP @Report4America
- As Gov. Tate Reeves climbed Mississippi’s political ladder, he cited his opposition to investing in Jackson's water infrastructure as evidence of his fiscal conservatism. Jackson is a city that some call a political punching bag. @AP @Report4America
- “I went to Office Depot, but they didn’t have toner cartridges, and we weren’t able to print the ballots,” said Zach Wallace, the top elections official in Hinds County. Ballot shortages created a problem for democracy in Mississippi @AP @Report4America
- Personal news: I have accepted a job with @AP’s Minneapolis bureau covering law enforcement and courts. Moving to Mississippi was one of the best decisions of my life. I love this state and everyone I met here. Thank you, @Report4America, for making it all possible.
- In my first enterprise story for @AP, I looked into “second-chance hiring" amid an ongoing labor shortage. The formerly incarcerated people I spoke to said unsteady work can be another form of confinement. Some of them have now been set free.
- Several deputies from a Mississippi sheriff’s department being investigated by DOJ for possible civil rights violations have been involved in at least 4 violent encounters with Black men since 2019 that left 2 dead and another with lasting injuries.
- ICYMI: A Mississippi man has been charged with a federal hate crime for burning a cross in his front yard to threaten his Black neighbors, the U.S. Justice Department announced Friday. @AP @Report4America
- Federal courts have issued desegregation orders for 32 school districts in Mississippi, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division’s assistant attorney general said Thursday. @AP @Report4America
- Thrilled to share that I'm joining @AP to cover the Mississippi Legislature with a focus on poverty and inequality via @Report4America! I'm excited to work with @EWagsterPettus and the rest of the @APSouthRegion team. Next stop Jackson! #msleg
- Body cam footage shows that former police officers indicted by a Mississippi grand jury joked about a man who died in their custody, with one of them questioning whether to call an ambulance for the man immediately. @Report4America @AP
- Mississippi sheriff’s deputies already under investigation for possible civil rights violations after shooting a man in the mouth are now also being accused of attempting to assault him and a second man with a sex toy during an interrogation
- Replying to @mikergoldbergThe organization, JULIAN, is seeking a temporary restraining order against the Lexington police department to demand protection for the town’s largely Black population.
- An incident involving a white Mississippi Highway Patrol officer and three Black men is under investigation after a viral video showed the officer putting a handcuffed man into a chokehold and wrestling him into a ditch. @AP @Report4America
