Three Georgia men who’ve been charged with the murder of Ahmaud Arbery were indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury charged with hate crimes and attempted kidnapping according to NBC News. Arbery was jogging last year in Brunswick, Georgia when Travis McMichael, 35, and his father Gregory McMichael, 65, pursued him in their truck and […]
A man in Alameda, California, a city south of Oakland, lost consciousness in police custody after being restrained on his stomach during an arrest according to a news release from the Alameda Police Department (APD). Mario Arenales Gonzalez later died after being transported to a hospital. On April 19, Alameda police received separate calls at […]
Update(April 26, 2021): After the release of police body camera footage, attorneys for Andrew Brown Jr.’s family said the video shows the man was “executed.” Brown was shot on Wednesday by deputies while he was complying with officers’ commands and had his hands on the steering wheel, according to the family’s attorneys, Reuters reported. “They were […]
Just minutes after releasing nearly a year of fearful energy, I cheered at my television set when former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty on all charges for the murder of George Floyd on Tuesday. It was the shortest exhale I have ever taken because as I took to Facebook to share my reflections, […]
Stephen Nicholas Broderick, a former Texas sheriff’s deputy accused of fatally shooting his former wife, their adopted daughter and another person has been arrested. In a statement on Facebook, Manor, Texas police wrote: “On Monday, April 19, 2021, at approximately 6:53 am the Travis County Sheriff’s Office was dispatched to a suspicious person call in […]
Judeah Reynolds, a 10-year-old girl who witnessed the killing of George Floyd last year, said she is proud of the role she played in bringing a guilty verdict against his killer, Derek Chauvin. Speaking to Good Morning America, Reynolds said she watched the verdict on TV on Tuesday as the former Minneapolis police officer was found guilty […]
Darnella Fraizer’s decision to stand up against injustice and record the harrowing final minutes of George Floyd’s life is being regarded as one of the most essential components of former police officer Derek Chauvin’s murder conviction. On Tuesday, the jury in Chauvin’s trial reached a verdict and found him guilty of third-degree murder, second-degree unintentional […]
His bail was immediately revoked and he was led away with his hands cuffed behind his back. The verdict was read in a courthouse ringed with concrete barriers and razor wire and patrolled by National Guard troops, in a city on edge against another round of unrest — not just because of the Chauvin case […]
A lawyer representing the family of a man fatally shot by an off-duty Pentagon security officer is now demanding prosecutors to release surveillance video of the shooting at the Takoma Overlook condos located in Takoma Park, Maryland. Attorney Malik Shabazz says in the interest of transparency, the State Attorney John McCarthy should release all images […]
Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who is on trial for the death of George Floyd, invoked the Fifth amendment on Thursday and will not testify. Whether or not the 45-year-old would take the stand has been a major point of speculation before and during the trial. “I will invoke my Fifth Amendment privilege […]