Prosecutors rested their case last week after only two days of testimonies in the stun gun death trial of Eurie Lee Martin after a former Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) agent skilled in “use-of-force” testified that the 58-year-old had not committed a crime that warranted law enforcement […]
A newly reduced prison sentence for a former Minneapolis police officer who was originally convicted of third-degree murder for killing a white woman has prompted speculation about the legal implications it has for Derek Chauvin, who was found guilty of the same charge for killing George Floyd, a […]
A group of Black immigrant advocates has filed a civil rights complaint to the Department of Homeland Security alleging Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents placed African asylum seekers in a medical constraint to torture them. According to the complaint, ICE agents used a full-body restraint called […]
Jury selection was scheduled to begin Monday morning in the murder trial for the three men accused of racially profiling Ahmaud Arbery, arming themselves, jumping in trucks, chasing him down, blocking his path in the streets and then shooting him to death in the middle of […]
*At least 10 women were either shot or killed in St. Louis over the last week, and one TikTokker has gone viral with her belief that the cases are racial. TikTok user LamaraIndigo‘s video, which has been viewed more than 420,000 times, said she believes white people […]
Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis cop who was convicted in the murder of George Floyd, was in court again on Thursday, this time to plead not guilty to violating the rights of a Black teenager during an arrest that was strikingly similar to the Floyd […]