and teens learning to drive. This knowledge has been translated into a program called Time to Drive, which coaches and provides guidance to parents as they supervise their novice teen drivers.

Occupant protection

The national safety belt usage rate in 2014 was 87 percent, but preventable deaths still occurred as a result of unrestrained occupants. Many children continue to be unrestrained or improperly restrained. Occupant protection remains an area of concern for society, and a focus for HSRC.

Through a multi-year program of research and data analysis, HSRC was instrumental in getting both the child passenger safety law and the adult seatbelt law passed in North Carolina in the 1980s. The Center continues to work in child injury prevention by helping to coordinate child passenger safety workshops and trainings for healthfor their own misconduct or that of their fellow officers, but they want to throw the book at anyone who peacefully engages in constitutionally protected activities if that person is nearby when a cop gets hurt on the job,” said constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute and author of Battlefield America: The War on the American People. “This is yet another Machiavellian attempt by the government to prevent Americans from exercising their First Amendment right to peacefully speak truth to power.”

In July 2016, activists took to the streets in outrage after two Baton Rouge police officers shot 37-year-old Alton Sterling six times at close range while the man was pinned to the ground. The incident, which was recorded by bystanders and shared on social