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Rev. Al Sharpton eulogizes Arkansas teen killed by deputy By Andrew DeMillo BEEBE, Ark. - The Rev. Al Sharpton and attorneys for George Floyds family on Tuesday mourned a White Arkansas teenager fatally shot by a sheriffs deputy, as they urged support across racial lines for efforts to reform police practices. The killing in the predominantly White community has drawn the attention of national civil rights activists such as Sharpton, who said concerns about police tactics arent just limited to ...

Al Sharpton to eulogize Arkansas teen fatally shot by deputy ANDREW DeMILLO, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The Rev. Al Sharpton and an attorney for George Floyds family are speaking at the memorial Tuesday for a white Arkansas teenager shot dead by a deputy, a case that civil rights activists say highlights the need for interracial support to address police shootings. Seventeen-year-old Hunter Brittain was shot and killed by a Lonoke County sh...

Andrew Demillo FILE - In this April 20, 2021 file photo, Attorney Ben Crump, left, and Rev. Al Sharpton shake hands during a news conference after former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin is convicted in the killing of George Floyd, in Minneapolis. Sharpton and an attorney for George Floyds family are speaking at the memorial Tuesday, July 6, 2021, for a white Arkansas teenager shot dead by a deputy, a case that civil rights activists say highlights the need for interracial s...

"Those two boys got our brand new riding lawn mower and the other lawn mower and they took off down there," Payne said as those around her laughed at the story. "They were down there in grass, in grass over their head, and its as dark as it could be." Brittains body was delivered to the funeral home Wednesday, his uncle Jesse Brittain told reporters. He said it was then that the family learned Brittain had been shot not once but three times. Jesse Brittain has expressed frustration about the la...

By ANDREW DeMILLO, AP LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas sheriffs deputy who fatally shot a teenager during a traffic stop was fired Thursday after the sheriff said he did not activate his body camera until after the shooting took place. Lonoke County Sheriff John Staley said Sgt. Michael Davis was fired after it was discovered he didnt follow the agencys body camera policy in the moments leading up to the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Hunter Brittain on June 23. The sherif...

Lonoke County deputy fired after fatally shooting teen by Teresa Moss | Today at 5:08 p.m. Lonoke County Sheriff John Staley (center) talks with the uncles of Hunter Brittain, Jesse Brittain (left) and Harley Brittain (right), during a rally outside the Lonoke County sheriffs office on Wednesday, June 23, 2021, in Lonoke. Hunter Brittain was shot by a Lonoke County sheriffs deputy during a traffic stop earlier that morning. More photos at arkansasonline.com/624lonoke/ (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette...

KARK: Lonoke deputy fired for not having active body cam when he killed teen July 1, 20214:28 pm Our news partner KARK reports that Sgt. Michael Davis has been fired by the Lonoke County sheriff for violation of the policy on use of body cameras. It was not activated when he shot and killed Hunter Brittain, 17, who was unarmed when Davis stopped him on a state highway near Cabot. Brittain’s family and a companion that night said he held only a jug of antifreeze that he intended to put behind ...

Deputy who killed Arkansas teen fired, bodycam not on during shooting The Lonoke County sheriff announced that Sergeant Mike Davis is fired due to policy violation, as his bodycam was not on during the time of the shooting. Author: THV11 Digital Updated: 5:00 PM CDT July 1, 2021 LONOKE COUNTY, Ark. — Lonoke County Sheriff John Staley announced through a Facebook video Thursday that Sergeant Mike Davis, the officer involved in the fatal shooting of 17-year-old H...

OCEAN CITY, Md. — The topics of gender equality and moral sensibility were up for debate Wednesday in federal court as Ocean City and five women argued over the constitutionality of the towns 2017 topless ban. Lawyers for both sides in Ocean Citys ongoing topless lawsuit went before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit to make their cases. In August 2017, Ocean City passed an ordinance that banned only women, and not men, from exposing their breasts in public. The legislation...

Monroe County NAACP leaders are calling on Pennsylvania senators Pat Toomey and Bob Casey to support the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act.