As far as Keith Ellison, the Minnesota Attorney General is concerned, Minnesota’s guidelines for locking up criminals does not go far enough for the heinous crime that Derek Chauvin perpetrated on George Floyd. He describes what the ex-cop did to Floyd as “particular cruelty.” Earlier this week, Ellison filed […]
On April 17, cellphone footage of an Ohio man threatening to shoot a black woman with an assault rifle landed online. Now, James Rhodes, the man seen in the video, has been charged with a hate crime and a motion has been filed to evict him from […]
The former Cleveland, Ohio, police officer who shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice wants his job back. Taking his appeal case to the Ohio Supreme Court, attorneys for Timothy Loehmann made the case that their client’s termination was due to “a police union’s failure to serve […]
A Minnesota Department of Corrections officer has been placed on leave after a video captured him harassing peaceful protestors on Sunday, April 25, emerged online. In the clip, Sgt. Paul Gorder, who has worked at the Minnesota Correctional Facility-Stillwater for more than 30 years, was […]
The state of Hawaii is close to becoming the 49th state to recognize Juneteenth after the state House and Senate passed legislation Wednesday. If Hawaii Gov. David Ige signs the bill, it will leave South Dakota as the lone state not to commemorate the end of slavery […]
A Bay Area school is under fire for encouraging a “white student support circle” in the wake of the Derek Chauvin verdict. Randall Brooker, Superintendent of the Piedmont Unified School District has called an email the school sent to students about the whites-only support group “a poor […]