1. Rash of Fatal Police Shootings Overwhelm Headlines What You Need To Know: Over the past several weeks, news of fatal police shootings has overshadowed the headlines, highlighting a disturbing trend that has sparked protests and raised more questions than answers. 2. Troy Carter Elected to Cedric Richmond’s Congressional Seat What You Need To Know: […]
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Relatives of a black Connecticut man killed by a state trooper are seeking more than $10 million in wrongful death damages from state and local police, according to legal notices filed Thursday. Lawyers for the family of Mubarak Soulemane, 19, asked the state claims commissioner for permission to sue the Department […]
The mother of Botham Jean says she has no hatred for the suspected white supremacist cop who killed her son last year. As former Dallas officer Amber Guyger settles into serving the second full month of her 10-year prison sentence for killing Jean, 26, in his own home in Dallas in Sept. 2018, the victim’s mother says she […]
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — The monitor overseeing the federal consent agreement requiring police and court changes in Ferguson is seeing troubling signs that residents are increasingly disengaged in the reform process. Just 22 people showed up Wednesday for a town hall-style meeting with the monitor team at the Ferguson Community Center. There was a time […]
The deadly shooting of an African American man by a white police officer this summer in South Bend, Indiana, highlighted Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s struggle to win black support for his presidential campaign. The issue could resurface as the prosecutor leading an investigation into the matter says his work likely won’t be finished before February, just […]
n 2016, Diamond Reynolds filmed a police officer shooting and killing her boyfriend Philando Castile as he sat next to her in the front seat of their car, while Reynolds’ daughter was in the back. A year later, according to The Star Tribune, Tom McBroom, the former Rice County Sheriff’s Deputy tweeted about Reynolds. “She needs […]
Amber Guyger is taking the initial steps to appeal her murder conviction in the death of Botham Jean. An attorney for Guyger filed an intent to appeal her first-degree murder conviction earlier this month as well as her 10-year prison sentence. The appeal comes two weeks after she was found guilty in the September 2018 […]
Funeral services for Atatiana Jefferson have been rescheduled to Thursday, according to Jefferson’s family attorney S. Lee Merritt. RELATED: Atatiana Jefferson’s Funeral Cancelled The noted civil rights lawyer announced the date via Twitter after a series of inner family disputes prompted the funeral to be moved from Saturday, October 19, to Thursday, October 24. Services […]
The funeral for Atatiana Jefferson has been postponed due to a family dispute. Her father, Marquis Jefferson, has been granted a temporary order of protection stopping the funeral from happening. It was originally scheduled for October 19th, 2019. RELATED: Officer Charged With Murder In Atatiana Jefferson Shooting According to NBC News, Jefferson felt he was […]
A life taken at the hands of police. A grieving family. A divided nation. A stirring eulogy by the Rev. Al Sharpton. The 65-year-old civil rights activist has become a constant of the Black Lives Matter era with his presence in the pulpit after police shootings of African Americans, showing up in cities like Baltimore, […]
After a police officer fatally shoots someone, it can take days or even weeks before the public or his supervisors hear the officer’s version of what happened. In many states, that so-called cooling off period is carved out in state law or in a police department’s contract. That opportunity to take some time before undergoing […]
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A white Fort Worth police officer who shot and killed a black woman through a back window of her home while responding to a call about an open front door was charged with murder on Monday after resigning from the force. Aaron Dean, 34, was jailed Monday evening on $200,000 […]
