JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A team searching a Mississippi courthouse basement for evidence about the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till has found the unserved warrant charging a white woman in his 1955 kidnapping, and relatives of the victim want authorities to finally arrest her nearly 70 years later. A warrant for the arrest of Carolyn Bryant […]
The family of a Arkansas man passed away after being arrested at a movie theatre is demanding answers after his death was ruled a suspect homicide. 30-year-old Terence Caffey go into an altercation with employees at the Movie Tavern in Little Rock in December 2021 when an off-duty deputy conducting security engaged according to KARK. […]
The Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners has reached a settlement to pay $900,000 for a wrongful arrest from almost six years ago that put a then 15-year-old in jail for three weeks, according to The Kansas City Star. Tyree Bell will be awarded the sum for damages and court costs. The family filed the […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The quest by a civil rights pioneer to have her arrest record wiped clean after nearly 70 years after she protested racial segregation has raised the possibility of similar bids to clear the names of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr., whose convictions remain on the books in Alabama’s capital. […]
Carl Cavalier, a state trooper with the Louisiana State Police Department allegedly has been fired after he leaked of internal records regarding the 2019 death of Ronald Greene, a Black motorist who was beaten, tased, bound face-down on the ground, and later passed away while in police custody. After the incident, Greene’s family was told […]
Memphis woman arrested by Shelby County Sheriff’s Deputies was captured on cell phone video in 2020 is speaking about what happened. Kesha Gray says deputies violated several of her civil rights alleging the arrest led to a miscarriage. “I feel like i was being stripped of my dignity,” Gray told FOX13. Gray has filed a […]
“He just came in here to get his check. He’s been in his job for two hours,” says a fellow employee. “And they talk about somebody just robbed the building 30 minutes ago — he’s been in this building for two hours.” Meanwhile, a woman who seems to be a manager in a purple shirt, […]
One of two brothers arrested in Rock Hill, South Carolina, in June has filed a lawsuit against the city and U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman, who represents the region. The June arrests of 34-year-old Travis Price and Ricky Price, 35, were filmed by a bystander and shared to Facebook Live, sparking outrage. Travis Price filed the lawsuit […]
Four Miami Beach police officers have been placed on administrative leave with pay, and some may charged after the aggressive arrests of three men. An investigation into the incident has since been launched. Dalonta Crudup, Khalid Vaughn, and Sharif Cobb, age 24, 28, and 27, were arrested by Miami Beach Police officers identified in a report […]
Rory Spain has been identified from body camera footage as the officer who punched Tyreana Edmonds in the throat during the incident.On July 4, police were called to an East Syracuse Walmart after a fight allegedly broke out between 5-6 people. Employees were reportredly threatened during the altercation and struck in the face by two women who also […]