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André Wharton has been a member of The Wharton Law Firm in Memphis for seventeen years and practices in the area of criminal defense and civil rights law. A little over 30 years ago, America witnessed the disturbing video of Rodney King being beaten by Los Angeles police officers after a police chase and ultimate arrest for driving under the influence and evading arrest. Those officers were tried in state court. Three were acquitted and one case ended in a hung jury. Two years later, the offic...

UpdatedTue, Apr 20, 2021 at 4:01 pm CT Reply Dump trucks block the entrance of Binnys on 95th Street during last summers protests following the death of George Floyd. (Lorraine Swanson/Patch) EVERGREEN PARK, IL — All Evergreen Park police officers have been in and will maintain a high presence in the area of the villages shopping districts along 95th Street and Western Avenue in preparation for Derek Chavin verdict, which will be read in moments in a Minneapolis courtroom, police said. Chavi...

The testimony of Chauvin’s “experts” and the pseudo-legal framework of police terror Millions of people around the world doubtless experienced a mixture of outrage and bewilderment as they listened to the so-called “experts” who were permitted to testify last week on behalf of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis, Minnesota police officer whose brutal murder of George Floyd last year was captured on video and touched off mass protests worldwide. Chauvin’s trial for murder and mansl...

Vandals Leave Severed Pigs Head, Smear Blood on Former Home of Chauvin Trial Witness - Photos © REUTERS / JANE ROSENBERG 5 Subscribe Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/us/202104191082667431-vandals-leave-severed-pigs-head-smear-blood-on-former-home-of-chauvin-trial-witness---photos/ The former home of the witness was smeared after he testified for the defence in Derek Chauvins trial in Minnesota, saying that the officers decision to pin d...

‘Nobody will talk to us...I said please take my son off the ground’

Medical examiner who performed George Floyds autopsy says Chauvins knee would NOT cut off his oxygen and claims he died because having his neck compressed was just more than he could take, given underlying heart disease Hennepin County Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Andrew Baker took the stand Friday in the tenth day of Derek Chauvins murder trial  Dr. Baker, one of the states most significant witnesses, did not echo the testimonies of other state experts  Asked if, in his opinion, the positionin...

Forensic pathologist Dr. Lindsey Thomas testified as a prosecution witness Friday in the trial of Derek Chauvin Dr. Thomas claimed that George Floyd died as a result of low oxygen or asphyxia   This is a death where both the heart and lungs stopped working and the point is that it is due to subdual restraint and compression, she said. The activities of the law enforcement officers led to Mr. Floyds death In an extraordinary move Judge Cahill decided that autopsy images of Floyd would not be d...

Just in this morning, Chico Police officers announced an arrest has been made in a weekend stabbing incident at the Lindo Channel. Police said the victim of the stabbing is expected to survive after he was sent to the hospital under critical condition. The stabbing happened by the Lindo channel, behind the Raley’s on East Ave.  Siskiyou County deputies are searching for more information after they discovered the body of a woman missing out of Oakland. The Siskiyou County Sheriffs Office said...

Christopher Martin, who had a full-time job at the Cup Foods store, lived above the business with his mother and sister. He said he quit his job after George Floyd’s death.

Cortez Rice, left, of Minneapolis, sits with others in the middle of Hennepin Avenue on Sunday, March 7, 2021, in Minneapolis, Minn., to mourn the death of George Floyd a day before jury selection is set to begin in the trial of former Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin, who is charged in Floyds death. (Jerry Holt/Star Tribune via AP) “He cried for his mom. He was in pain. It seemed like he knew—like he knew it was over for him. He was terrified. He was suffering.” Darnella Frazier, quot...