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 […]
Source: Bettmann / Getty Between 1979 and 1981 at least 29 Black children were killed in the city of Atlanta. The horrific string of killings was dubbed the “Atlanta Child Murders.” Police arrested Wayne Williams, a suspect in the child murders, on June 21, 1981. He […]
“She was cruel, she was evil, she was completely biased, everything she was not supposed to be,” said Sheryl Guinn of Rutherford County Tennessee Juvenile Judge Donna Scott Davenport after a report released by ProPublica and Nashville Public Radio revealed she has been incarcerating juveniles at alarming […]
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 […]
A Louisiana deputy sheriff is under investigation after video has emerged of him violently attacking Shantel Arnold for refusing to give a statement about an incident in which she was the victim. On Sept. 20, Arnold was approached by the unidentified Jefferson Parish Sheriff officer just moments after she […]