Crime
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.
A private investigation by lawyer and civil rights activist Jill Collen Jefferson revealed that at least eight Black people have been lynched in Mississippi since 2000, carrying its unfortunate legacy as the state with the most lynchings on record.
An NYC surveillance video shows the disturbing footage of the victim being executed on a crowded street in Crown Heights. A woman quickly approached the victim, identified as Delia Johnson, and then shot her in the back of the head and again in her leg as she collapsed.
After several delays, the first phase of the sex trafficking trial of R&B hitmaker R. Kelly will begin with jury selection Monday in New York City.
The founder of the Sydney-based global, Brian Houston, has been charged with concealing child sex offenses, police said Thursday.
The death of a Black Missouri teenager back in April appears to be racially motivated, especially after the coroner's initial suicide ruling was dismissed by a Missouri jury that believe his gunshot wound wasn't self-inflicted and may be linked to a Confederate flag-wielding racist by the name of James Wade.
Gunshots were fired Tuesday morning near the entrance of the Pentagon, resulting in multiple injuries. The facility, the headquarters of the U.S. military, was temporarily placed on lockdown.
Actor Gbenga Akinnagbe, famous for starring on the hit HBO series 'The Wire,' filed sex abuse charges against his ex-girlfriend for grabbing his butt on two occasions. His ex however, journalist Lola Adesioye, is saying that his claims are not only 100% false but that any contact between the two was 100% consensual.
A Dallas police officer who is seen in a viral video repeatedly punching a man is currently under two other use of force investigations.
