Neely’s family attorney, Lennon Edwards, said Penny should have realized that Neely was struggling to breathe as he was placed into a chokehold. Another lawyer, Donte Mills, said Penny “acted with indifference,” ABC News reported. “For everybody saying, ‘I’ve been on the train and I’ve been afraid before, and I can’t tell you what I […]
After Anderson locked up the store, as usual, he went to the police station to turn himself in according to the report. When he was questioned by police about what took place, he mentioned that this was the sixth time someone tried to rob the store in the last five months. Four of the attempted […]
Dean’s defense attorney Bob Gill explained to jurors that the former officer was terrified when he peered into Jefferson’s apartment through her bedroom window. “If you believe that Aaron was legitimately defending a third person, and reasonably defending a third person, or if you had a reasonable doubt about whether he was doing such, then […]
A former Kansas City detective convicted of fatally shooting a Black man will remain free on bond while his conviction is appealed, a judge ruled Tuesday. Jackson County Circuit Court Presiding Judge J. Dale Youngs ruled that Eric DeValkenaere, who is white, can stay out of prison during the appeal of his conviction for second-degree involuntary manslaughter and armed […]
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Kim Potter, the former suburban Minneapolis police officer who said she confused her handgun for her Taser when she fatally shot Daunte Wright, was sentenced Friday to two years in prison. Wright’s family denounced the sentence as too lenient and accused the judge of giving more consideration to the white officer than […]
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Jurors on Thursday convicted a suburban Minneapolis police officer of two manslaughter charges in the killing of Daunte Wright, a Black motorist she shot during a traffic stop after she said she confused her gun for her Taser. The mostly white jury deliberated for about four days before finding former Brooklyn Center officer Kim Potter guilty of first-degree […]
Wales will become the first UK nation to make black history lessons mandatory in schools, from 2022. In the wake of George Floyd’s murder and Black Lives Matter protests, the government wants children to become “ethical and informed”. SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos: http://www.youtube.com/skynews Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/skynews Like us on […]
A South Carolina man has been charged with involuntary manslaughter and penalty for owning a dangerous animal that attacks and injures a human after his dogs mauled a 7-year-old to death last month. Lorenzo Cardenas has been charged on June 28, after 7-year-old Shamar Sherif Jackson was killed after being attacked by dogs on June […]
SEATTLE (AP) — Five weeks after ex-Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin was convicted of murdering George Floyd, three Washington state police officers pleaded not guilty Friday in the death of Manuel Ellis, another Black man who pleaded for breath under an officer’s knee. Tacoma police officers Christopher Burbank, Matthew Collins and Timothy Rankine appeared in orange […]
A Black Dunkin Donuts employee has been charged with aggravated manslaughter for fatally punching a 77-year-old white man who repeatedly used a racial slur toward him during an altercation. Corey Pujols, 27, who was working at the restaurant chain on May 4, allegedly punched the elderly man who then fell backward and hit his head […]