SAN FRANCISCO -- Truck driver Vertis Williams says he's applied for 80 jobs since last August but can't get an interview anywhere because of one question on the application forms: have you ever been convicted of a felony?

"I believe that is the reason why I've been denied so many opportunities," said Williams.

Williams is an ex-felon who was released last May after serving nine years for car theft and other violations.

LA Sheriff Launches Probe Into Alleged Inmate Beating

The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES—Sheriff's officials launched an internal criminal investigation Tuesday into the alleged beating of a Los Angeles County jail inmate by deputies that was witnessed by an ACLU staffer last month.

Spokesman Steve Whitmore said the sheriff's office of independent review will look into the incident, in which two deputies allegedly hit and kicked an unconscious man on Jan. 24.

On Wednesday January 26th, Oakland Police shot and killed 19 year-old Martin Flenaugh near San Leandro Blvd in response to a report of shots being fired. This has been yet another murder of a young member of our oppressed Oakland community.... “Marty”, Raheim Brown, along with “Jody” Woodfox, Derrick Jones, Lovell Mixon, and Oscar Grant to name a few, are not just names you read about in the news. They are connected to us throug...h family and community yet we are killed off and then passed off as some violent thugs by society.

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