ST. LOUIS (AP) — A white former police officer was acquitted Friday in the 2011 death of Anthony Lamar Smith who was fatally shot following a high-speed chase, and hundreds of demonstrators streamed into the streets of downtown St. Louis to protest the verdict that had stirred fears of civil unrest for weeks. Ahead of […]
Police launched a criminal investigation after a Black teen was shot and killed outside an Arkansas emergency shelter.
Dejaun Guillory was a father of three with some issues in his past who had a new girlfriend and was working on getting his life on track. Instead he was shot to death on a dark Louisiana road while his girlfriend attempted to fight off the police officer who killed him. Guillory was 27. […]
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota police officer who was acquitted in last year’s fatal shooting of black motorist Philando Castile has left the suburban police department where he served under a separation agreement. The Minneapolis suburb of St. Anthony announced Monday that Jeronimo Yanez is no longer with the police department. The terms were not […]
After three Black teenagers were handcuffed for selling water without a license on the National Mall in the nation’s capital, a District of Columbia councilmember is condemning the officers for the arrests, Think Progress reports. Councilman Charles Allen, the head of the council’s Public Safety Committee, issued a letter claiming that the actions of the […]
D.C. councilmember Charles Allen condemned the officers who arrested Black teens for selling water on the National Mall.
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Milwaukee jury on Wednesday acquitted a former police officer in the on-duty shooting of a black man last year that ignited riots on the city’s north side. Jurors found that Dominique Heaggan-Brown, who is also black, was not guilty of first-degree reckless homicide when he shot 23-year-old Sylville Smith after a […]
Hundreds of people gathered at Mesquite Friendship Baptist Church for Jordan Edwards’ funeral on Saturday.
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The attorney for a white former South Carolina police officer charged with murder in the shooting death of an unarmed black motorist asked a judge Tuesday to keep the dramatic cellphone video of the shooting out of the trial. The motion came as a jury pool was qualified to hear the […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles prosecutors have declined to bring gun charges against rapper Dr. Dre. A spokesman for the Los Angeles district attorney said Wednesday there was a lack of evidence that the record producer and entrepreneur had brandished a gun in public. Sheriff’s deputies had cited Dre for a misdemeanor after a […]
DETROIT (AP) — A Detroit-area police officer whose bloody beating of a motorist was captured on dashcam video was sentenced to at least 13 months in prison Tuesday, with the judge rebuking him for “Dirty Harry tactics” but still handing down a punishment significantly below the guidelines. William Melendez was an Inkster police officer a […]
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A former South Carolina police officer charged with murder in the shooting death of an unarmed black motorist was released from jail Monday evening and will remain under house arrest until his trial is set to begin next Halloween. Circuit Judge Clifton Newman agreed with a defense request earlier Monday that […]
