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 […]
He was subsequently arrested and taken to a hospital, where he remained handcuffed and was denied contact with his family. Later, authorities discovered Green wasn’t the aggressor; they tracked down another man involved in the incident and charged him. However, the damage was done “physically, mentally, emotionally, and financially.” “They treated me like a criminal […]
On April 29, 2020, the 16-year-old allegedly threw part of a sandwich in the cafeteria. The lawsuit claims Lakeside staff proceeded to use an “improper restraint” on the teen and “continued to suffocate him for a prolonged period of time,” although he yelled out he couldn’t breathe. The suit says it was at least “six […]
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — The estate of Henrietta Lacks sued a biotechnology company on Monday, accusing it of selling cells that doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital took from the Black woman in 1951 without her knowledge or consent as part of “a racially unjust medical system.” Tissue taken from the woman’s tumor before she […]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The family of a Black man fatally shot in 2019 in his own backyard by a white police detective is suing Kansas City police and the officer. The lawsuit was filed Monday in federal court on behalf of Cameron Lamb’s four minor children, the Kansas City Star reported. The lawsuit […]
JAY-Z is suing record executive and entrepreneur Damon Dash for allegedly trying to sell the copyright to his debut album, Reasonable Doubt. Paperwork filed by JAY-Z’s attorneys last week say that Dash intended to sell the album as a non-fungible token (NFT) on a popular cryptocurrency platform called SuperFarm, Page Six reports. “Dash had planned […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The white woman who was widely condemned and fired after a videotaped dispute with a Black birdwatcher in Central Park filed a lawsuit against her former employer, accusing the company of not doing an investigation before her termination because of her race and gender. In her federal lawsuit, Amy Cooper said the […]
Media mogul Byron Allen filed a $10 billion lawsuit against McDonald’s Corp on Thursday, alleging the fast-food franchise is discriminating against Black-owned media companies such as his own. According to Bloomberg, Allen said McDonald’s spent less than 1% of its $1.6 billion ad budget with Black-owned media companies in 2019. “This is about economic inclusion of African American-owned businesses in the U.S. […]
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — A former Kentucky officer who was fired from the Lexington Police department is alleging in a lawsuit that a culture of racial discrimination plagues the department and contributed to his dismissal. Jervis Middleton, who is Black, was fired in February after being accused of providing information to racial injustice protesters in […]
Charlotte Newman, a former adviser to Senator Cory Booker, is suing tech giant Amazon and two of her former bosses for sexual harassment and gender discrimination. Newman told Vox that when she joined the company as a senior manager in the Amazon Web Services division in Jan. 2017, she was initially given a role lower […]