SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — A Maine man accused of setting fire to a Massachusetts church with a predominantly Black congregation been charged with hate crime offenses, federal prosecutors said Thursday. Dushko Vulchev is charged in federal court with four counts of damage to religious property involving fire and one count of use of fire to […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A white non-commissioned Army officer depicted in a viral video accosting and shoving a Black man in a South Carolina neighborhood has been charged with third-degree assault. Jonathan Pentland, 42, was charged Wednesday, according to an online court records search by The Associated Press. He was listed as detained in the […]
The Minnesota police officer who fatally shot Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, during a traffic stop will now be charged with second-degree manslaughter, a prosecutor said Wednesday according to USA Today. Washington County Attorney Pete Orput told USA TODAY that Kim Potter, a 26-year veteran of the Brooklyn Center Police Department, would be charged. […]
A Black man wrongfully charged by San Antonio police in connection to a domestic violence incident is seeking legal retribution for the botched 2019 investigation. According to local news station KSAT, Michael Wright, 34, was charged months after the San Antonio Police Department investigated a domestic dispute between a woman and her boyfriend, a 38-year-old […]
A Dallas police officer Bryan Riser was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder. “This individual has no business wearing this uniform,” Dallas police department Chief Eddie García said about Riser during a press conference according to CBS DFW 11. Riser a 13-year veteran was arrested on March 4 and was taken to […]
A Oklahoma City officer shot a death homeless man in December has been charged with first-degree manslaughter. The shooting took place last year on Dec. 11, when Bennie Edwards, a 60 year-old homeless man died after Sgt. Clifford Holman, 36, shot him in the back multiple times as he ran away. The Oklahoma City Fraternal Order […]
Former Olympics gymnastics coach John Geddert died by suicide after Michigan state officials brought charges against him for human trafficking and sexual assault in relation to the Larry Nassar scandal. Police officials said Geddert’s body was discovered by Michigan State Police troopers on Thursday afternoon at a rest area near Interstate 96 in Clinton County, […]