Bio
Solomon Furious Worlds is a staff attorney with the ACLU of Pennsylvania, based in Philadelphia, and focuses on policing, search & seizure issues, protest rights, free speech rights, and obtaining government records. Before that, they represented immigrant children who came to America without an adult in Michigan. Throughout their career, Solomon has advocated/organized in support of LQBTQ+ rights, Black liberation, disability justice, Palestinian liberation, sexual assault survivors, and prison abolition. They graduated from the University of Michigan Law School with a J.D. and earned two bachelor's degrees - in saxophone performance and social psychology - from the University of Iowa.
Featured Work
Injustice happens in a moment. Accountability takes time.
In December of 2020, a McKeesport police officer was shot while in pursuit of a suspect. The suspect was an individual who was well-known to McKeesport police. As they called in reinforcements from other police departments across the county, McKeesport police began an aggressive manhunt that intentionally and unconstitutionally targeted and terrorized Black residents.
Philadelphia Police Program to Reduce Race Disparities in Pedestrian Stops Goes Citywide As Public Safety Policy Slides Backwards
If you’ve been following the ACLU of Pennsylvania’s work in recent years, you may have heard about our ongoing settlement with the city of Philadelphia regarding police officers’ use of stop-and-frisk.