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While one attorney for Brown’s family, Wayne Kendall, initially said it was a “partial victory” for the family to view more video, the legal team later issued a statement condemning the decision not to make the video public. “In this modern civil rights crisis where we see Black people killed by the police everywhere we look, video evidence is the key to discerning the truth and getting well-deserved justice for victims of senseless murders,” said the statement signed by the legal tea...

A judge refused Wednesday to release body camera video showing North Carolina deputies shooting and killing a Black man, ruling that making the video public at...

While one attorney for Brown’s family, Wayne Kendall, initially said it was a “partial victory” for the family to view more video, the legal team later issued a statement condemning the decision not to make the video public. “In this modern civil rights crisis where we see Black people killed by the police everywhere we look, video evidence is the key to discerning the truth and getting well-deserved justice for victims of senseless murders,” said the statement signed by the legal tea...

Detail of the Korean War Memorial in Washington D.C. Photo by Kamira / Shutterstock.com. That is how Le My Hanh, a high school student in Queens, New York, reportedly appealed to the man who had followed her into her Queens apartment building, tied her up in a vacant apartment, and accused her of being a Vietcong. That man was Louis Kahan, a 30-year-old ex-Marine and Vietnam veteran who later claimed that the New York heat and construction rubble had triggered memories of his time on the frontl...

Kevin Gray, the Assistance District Attorney in Tulsa County, Oklahoma, told Newsweek that the case has several parallels to that of Robert Bates, a reserve deputy who shot a Black man in 2015.

Residents near Brooklyn Center Police Dept. call for city assistance after protests article Protesters light fireworks outside the Brooklyn Center Police Department on the fourth night of protests following the police shooting of Daunte Wright. (FOX 9) BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. (FOX 9) - They thought living near a police department would make them feel safer, but residents in the apartments across the street from the Brooklyn Center Police Department say clashes with protesters earlier this mon...

A juror who cast one of the unanimous votes to convict a white former Minneapolis police officer in George Floyd’s death says deliberations were relaxed and methodical as he and 11 other jurors quickly talked their way to agreement. Brandon Mitchell is the first juror to come forward publicly since Derek Chauvin was convicted on April 20 of second- and third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the May 2020 killing of Floyd, an unarmed Black man. An alternate juror, who was not par...

Bakers Seatbelt Reform Proposal Knocked Over Profiling Concerns Some civil rights and transportation advocates caution, however, that the route to safer roads proposed by the governor is too punitive and could exacerbate racial profiling of drivers Published April 29, 2021 Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker pitched his new omnibus road safety legislation as a way to improve the states almost-worst-in-the-nation seatbelt use and cut down on traffic deaths that have not abated during a str...

As Americans are about to discover, the contemptible appetite for mob justice will extend beyond a defendant being tried for a crime. Despite former police officer Derek Chauvin’s conviction, the mob has turned its attention toward Dr. David Fowler, an internationally renowned forensic pathologist who served as the state of Maryland’s chief medical examiner from 2002 to 2019. Why? Because Fowler offered his services as an expert witness for the defense, and he had the “temerityâ...

People in Philadelphia protest the police killing of Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center, just miles from Minneapolis where George Floyd was murdered last May by policeman Derek Chauvin, convicted last week of murder. Credit: Mark Makela/Getty A package of policing-reform measures pushed by the Florida Legislative Black Caucus in response to police killings of unarmed Black people was approved Thursday in the Florida Senate and now goes to Gov. Ron DeSantis for final review. The state House approv...