In Cleveland, community leaders concerned that prosecutors will fail to file charges against officers involved in the fatal shooting of Tamir Rice will “invoke a seldom-used Ohio law and go directly to a judge to request murder charges against the officers.”

+ A federal judge in Baton Rouge set off a firestorm of political wrangling by calling for the release of Albert Woodfox. Woodfox has been held in solitary confinement for more than 40 years. (No, that’s not a typo.)