Crime
R&B star R. Kelly once compared himself to rock legend Jerry Lee Lewis — notorious for marrying his 13-year-old cousin decades ago — saying they were both misunderstood geniuses, a witness at Kelly’s sex-trafficking trial testified Thursday.
A 22-year-old killer from Georgia has been arrested for fatally shooting a tourist in Miami and then dancing over his lifeless body.
Last Friday (08-20-21) two children ages 6 and 8 had to steer their father’s car off the road to safety after he was fatally shot while driving.
R. Kelly’s sex crimes trial in a Brooklyn courtroom continues to get underway with bombshell testimony from witnesses and accusers.
Atlanta-based rapper Germ witnessed his girlfriend’s kidnapping at gunpoint hours before she was found dead. 27-year-old bartender Mariam Abdulrabm was kidnapped in front of her boyfriend’s home by an armed gunman who forced her into an SUV.
A key accuser at the R. Kelly sex-trafficking trial returned to the witness stand on Thursday, first claiming Kelly had a Girl Scout fetish and then weeping when a prosecutor asked her to read out loud from a journal entry describing how he allegedly beat and choked her the last time they were together in 2010.
A Black couple from Michigan who had their home shot at by a 25-year-old white man due to his anger over the Black Lives Matter sign in their window surprisingly had nothing but forgiveness for their attacker during his sentencing.
Washington DC’s Metropolitan Police released body camera footage of the arrest of 23-year-old Kiman Johnson Wednesday evening, after a 45-second video shot by a bystander – showing Johnson pinned against a fence by three officers as one of them punches him at least 13 times in the face and body, went viral.
A prosecutor described sex abuse claims against R&B star R. Kelly Wednesday, saying the long-anticipated trial now underway was “about a predator” who used his fame to entice girls, boys and young women before dominating and controlling them physically, sexually and psychologically.
A Black police officer in Syracuse, New York is suing the city’s police department over “blatant and extreme racism” and its “Jim Crow culture.”
A Colorado woman was arrested last week after being caught on video forcing her 5-year-old son into the trunk of her car.
A Black realtor was showing a Black father and his 15-year-old son a Michigan home when they saw police outside the property with their guns drawn.
