BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. (AP) — The woman who was in Daunte Wright’s vehicle when he was fatally shot by police in a Minneapolis suburb last year is suing the city and the former officer who killed him. The lawsuit says passenger Alayna Albrecht-Payton, 21, of St. Paul, was physically injured when Wright’s vehicle crashed into […]
An investigation has started after a cellphone video showed how three white Missouri officers allowed a police dog to attack a Black man during an arrest. The incident took place on Sept. 20, when law enforcement in the St. Louis suburb of Woodson Terrace responded to a call of an alleged break-in of business according […]
GRETNA, La. — A former sheriff’s dispatcher in a suburb of New Orleans has been arrested, accused of refusing to return more than $1.2 million that had been accidentally deposited into her brokerage account, authorities said. Kelyn Spadoni, 33, was taken into custody Wednesday on charges of theft valued over $25,000, bank fraud and illegal […]
The city of Evanston in Illinois has approved a reparations plan to provide $400,000 to eligible Black households, becoming the first U.S. city to distribute reparations to Black Americans. The legislation comes after a near unanimous Evanston City Council vote in favor of the plan, closing out in an 8-1 sweep. After voting in 2019 […]
A city outside of Chicago has been making a historic move in creating equality in America becoming the first city in the United States to fund reparations for its Black residents. However, some residents say it doesn’t go far enough to be reparations. Evanston, which just north of Chicago, voted to approve a groundbreaking measure […]