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NEW YORK (AP) — The relatives of an unarmed black man who died after being put in a white police officer’s chokehold said Tuesday that the nearly $6 million settlement they reached with the city wasn’t a victory as they continued pressing for federal civil rights charges. “The victory will come when we get justice,” […]
OUANAMINTHE, Haiti (AP) — Thousands of people from Haiti or merely of Haitian descent aren’t waiting to see if they’ll be forcibly removed from the Dominican Republic now that the deadline has passed to apply for legal residency. The end of a yearlong application period has sparked an exodus to Haiti of people who failed […]
LEXINGTON, S.C. (AP) — Both the FBI and a county sheriff’s department agency promise to review a series of mistakes that allowed South Carolina church shooting suspect Dylann Roof to get a gun he never should have been allowed to buy. Lexington County Sheriff Jay Koon told The Associated Press on Monday that a clerk […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Calling America “a nation of second chances,” President Barack Obama cut the prison sentences of 46 non-violent drug offenders on Monday in what the White House hopes will be just one prong of a broader push to make the criminal justice system fairer while saving the government money. Fourteen of those whose […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The family of a black man who died after being placed in a white police officer’s chokehold reached a $5.9 million settlement with the city on Monday, days before the anniversary of his death. Eric Garner’s family in October filed a notice of claim, the first step in filing a lawsuit […]
An exhibit at Chicago’s Gallery Guichard featuring a portrayal of the slain body of Michael Brown has sparked controversy on social media. The exhibit, titled “Confronting Truths:…
Sabine Raymonvil, 30, an 8-year veteran with the Miami Police Department, is under investigation after allegations emerged that she has participated in pornographic films since joining…
Probably not a good way to get the mayor's attention.
Six officers are being investigated for the death of Anthony Dewayne Ware. Ware died after he was pepper sprayed while being arrested.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — For the first time since the civil rights movement, the Confederate flag was removed entirely from the South Carolina Statehouse, in a swift ceremony Friday before thousands of people who cheered as the Civil War-era banner was lowered from a 30-foot flagpole. Many people believed the flag would fly indefinitely in […]
The chance of Eric Garner’s daughter being accepted in to his family are slim to none, according to Garner’s widow. In an interview with the New York Daily News, Esaw Garner mentioned that although 16-month-old Legacy is her husband’s daughter with another woman, she wants nothing to do with the young girl or her mother, […]
Who knows what might have happened to Elizabeth, New Jersey man Todd West while he was in jail doing time on drug charges? Or was he becoming unhinged well before that? West, 22, has been accused of a series of seemingly horrific murders – all over the course of 3 days and less than a […]
