ShareTweetSubscribe LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A couple searched by Louisville police officers after being pulled over on the way home from church have been paid $75,000 by the city to settle a federal discrimination lawsuit. The couple were stopped by officers after leaving a Louisville church in 2018. The lawsuit was filed in 2019 on […]
Aubrey Gregory has filed a lawsuit against Louisville Metro Police Department after he was demoted for using the N-word alleging he was being discriminated against. The former Louisville Metro Police major claims two Black people used the racial slur during a training session but both didn’t receive the same reprimand. Gregory, who is white and […]
A Louisville, Kentucky High school students put together a staged walkout on Aug 24 after a encounter involving a teacher and student the day before. A video shows Kentucky teacher seen pinning a Black student to the floor and gripping his hair. The teacher has since been reassigned to no instructional duties according to a […]
A Louisville woman died while in custody at an Indiana jail and attorneys for her family say she had bruises on her face, caught a fever and vomited moments before her death, WDRB reports. Ta’Neasha Chappell died in the Jackson County Jail in Brownstown, Indiana, on July 16. According to the Courier Journal, she was […]
A family is searching for answers after a woman died at a hospital after being taken there from an Indiana jail. The family has now hired the same legal team for Breonna Taylor’s family. “Our team has been given the privilege of seeking truth and justice for the family of Ta’Neasha Chappell,” Louisville attorney Sam […]
Update (July 9, 2021): An attorney representing Breonna Taylor’s family has filed a lawsuit against the Louisville Metro Police Department (MPD). Attorney Sam Aguiar said the officers involved in the fatal raid were assigned body cameras and he believes the department lied about having video evidence of the fatal shooting, NBC News reported. In the […]
One day prior to the anniversary of Breonna Taylor’s death, Kenneth Walker, the boyfriend of the slain 26-year-old, filed a federal lawsuit against the Louisville Metro Police Department in the fatal no-knock raid on March 13, 2020. The suit, collaboratively filed on Friday by multiple law firms in Kentucky, contends that the LMPD violated Walker’s […]
Podcaster Jermaine Fowler transports his listeners to the Antebellum South — where the pounding of hooves and taunting barks of hounds propel enslaved escapees further from the slave catchers that hunt them. But it isn’t the terror of escape for fugitive captives that Fowler explores. Instead, he educates his audience on the practicalities surrounding running […]
In an effort to highlight the people who are leading graduate chapters across the nation, we at Watch The Yard reached out to the sorority sisters of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc.’s Eta Zeta Chapter in Louisville and did an interview with DeShawn Burrell the Basileus(president) of the chapter. The position of Basileus of a Black […]