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The family of a mentally ill Black man who died after South Carolina jail employees repeatedly stunned him and then kneeled on his back until he stopped breathing is still seeking criminal charges one year later. Relatives for Jamal Sutherland want South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson to prosecute the Charleston County guards who restrained the 31-year-old shortly before his death. Ninth Circuit Solicitor Scarlett Wilson had said last year that she couldn't prove the guards intended ...

Every week an officer kills someone during a traffic stop who is unarmed. The numbers for people of color are even more staggering.

Fourteen-year-old Valentina Orellana-Peralta is dead because of a preventable mistake by...

The family of a mentally ill Black man who died after South Carolina jail employees repeatedly stunned him and then kneeled on his back until he stopped

The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office is actively searching for an 18-year-old inmate who was allowed out of custody for a few hours to attend a family funeral earlier this month, but never returned to the jail as ordered.

Former Brooklyn Park Police Officer Kim Potter was found guilty of manslaughter in the shooting death of Daunte Wright in December of 2021. Her sentencing is expected to take place in February. St. Cloud personal injury attorney Mike Bryant from Bradshaw & Bryant joined me on WJON today.

Washington state law schools are aiming to recruit more Latino and Native American students through a program at a central Washington university. The states three law schools at Gonzaga University, Seattle University and the University of Washington are collaborating with Heritage University on a three-week course at the schools Toppenish campus over the summer. Andrew Sund, president of Heritage University, said some law firms have told him they have difficulty recruiting attorneys in the re...

Today, justice prevailed when three men in Georgia were given a punishment of life in prison for killing Ahmaud Arbery, an unarmed African American, in cold blood.  All three of Ahmaud's killers are white.  Two of the three involved have no possibility of parole.  I agree with the decision reached and the sentence imposed.  

Their mistakes count just as much as ours, and they get punished for them just as we do.

GARDENA, CALIFORNIA JUNE 20, 2020-People stand in unity at a Black Lives Matter Los Angeles rally to call for justice in the fatal shooting of