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LOS ANGELES (AP) — An officer dropped a nightstick during a struggle with a homeless man who was shot to death by police on Los Angeles’ Skid Row, and the woman who picked it up now faces an assault charge that could send her to prison for 25 years to life. The March shooting was […]
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A former Baltimore police officer said Wednesday that he plans to perform an Al Jolson routine in blackface to raise money for the six Baltimore officers who have been indicted in the death of Freddie Gray. Bobby Berger, whose performances as Jolson created tension with the department in the 1980s, said […]
The story of Sandra Bland, the 28-year-old who was found dead in a Texas jail cell earlier this month, was given more context on Tuesday…
DALLAS (AP) — A woman whose death in a Texas jail has raised suspicions about the official conclusion that she hanged herself told a guard during the booking process that she had tried to kill herself in the past, the sheriff said Wednesday. Waller County Sheriff Glenn Smith said two jailers interviewed Sandra Bland after […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The man accused of slaying nine black church members in Charleston will be indicted on a federal hate crime charge on Wednesday, according to an official close to the case. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity because the indictment hadn’t been publicly announced yet, told The Associated Press that a […]
New York City police have arrested and charged a man in connection with the shooting that killed a Bronx resident as he was holding his toddler…
HEMPSTEAD, Texas (AP) — The latest on the investigation into the recent death of a woman in a Texas jail cell (all times local): 10:30 a.m. The attorney for the family of Sandra Bland says her body has been flown back to Chicago in preparation for her funeral. Cannon Lambert said in an email Wednesday […]
SUWANEE, Ga. (AP) — A gunman killed a woman and two children and wounded another man before killing himself inside a suburban Atlanta home early Wednesday, a sheriff said. The shooter was known to officers from previous arrests for minor crimes, but Forsyth County Sheriff Duane Piper would not release the man’s name or details […]
Rev. Al Sharpton talks about the latest in the Sandra Bland case, including the release of the dash cam footage before her untimely death. “It is disturbing to say the least. A 29-year-old woman dead in police custody. We don’t need an investigation after seeing the dash cam that was released last night. When […]
Roland Martin talks to former Dallas County Prosecutor Yodit Tewolde, about the latest in the case of Sandra Bland, the Illinois woman who was found dead in a Texas jail after being arrested for a traffic violation. New dashcam video shows that the state trooper, now identified as Brian Encinia, saw Bland pulling out […]
HEMPSTEAD, Texas (AP) — A police dashboard video released Tuesday shows that a Texas state trooper drew a stun gun on a black motorist and said, “I will light you up” when the woman refused to get out of her car during a routine traffic stop. The roadside encounter between the trooper and the driver […]
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A black Mississippi man who often dressed in Confederate regalia to support the state flag has died in a one-car accident. Anthony Hervey, 49, was killed Sunday when the 2005 Ford Explorer he was driving left the roadway and overturned on Mississippi Highway 6 in Lafayette County, the Highway Patrol said. […]
