A Baltimore woman has filed an $8.5 million lawsuit against a funeral home, saying the company secretly conducted two services for her husband and collected additional payments from another woman who said she was also the wife of the deceased man. Demetra Street said an employee at Wylie Funeral Homes took the urn of her husband, Ivan […]
A South Carolina police officer who was captured on video stomping a Black man’s head while he was on the ground in late July has been fired and charged with first-degree assault and battery, according to the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division. Officer David Lance Dukes, 38, was let go after an internal officials reviewed […]
A New Jersey man has been accused of harassing his Black neighbors behind bars. Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the 45-year-old Edward Cagney Mathews’ home in Mount Laurel after video of his racist rant against his Black neighbor recently went viral according to CBS Philly 3. Police took the man into custody. Protesters were outraged […]
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina prosecutor investigating the January jail death of a mentally ill Black man said Tuesday that she needs more time to decide whether to press criminal charges in the case. New evidence and additional interviews gathered in the past week on the death of Jamal Sutherland have led Ninth Circuit […]
A Texas family who were out for revenge have been charged with murder after they mistakenly killed a neighbor who they mistook for the person they were looking, according to ABC 13. Joe Argueta, 19, his mother and father, 39-year-old Florinda Argueta, and 45-year-old Luis Argueta, and his uncle, 29-year-old Margarito Alcantar have been charged. […]
An Atlanta couple were riding scooters near Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia last week when a man began catcalling the woman from a Black Dodge Charger according to Atlanta’s CBS affiliate reports. Meairra Mansara and her boyfriend, Juwan Davis were enjoying their day before the next tragic events happened. Davis stepped in to tell the man […]
Herbert Alford, a Michigan man who was convicted of murder in 2016, is now suing Hertz, saying the car rental company failed to produce a receipt that would have proved he was not at the scene of the crime in 2011. Although the charges against Alford were dropped after the company produced the receipt in 2018, the […]