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In the three years since the murder of George Floyd, whose death in police custody ignited a national movement against police brutality, prosecutors have charged police and emergency medical workers in a number of high-profile cases.

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Goodlett is accused of helping falsify a search warrant and filing a false report to cover it up. Read more at Boston.com.

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There are creative ways that collectors, auction houses, and artists can collaborate to build a system of "resale equity."

Justice Dept. Opens Inquiry Into Louisville Police The force had come under scrutiny after the police killed a Black woman, Breonna Taylor, in a botched raid last year. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland announced the investigation on Monday with Vanita Gupta, left, the associate attorney general, and Lisa O. Monaco, the deputy attorney general.Credit...Pool photo by Mandel Ngan April 26, 2021Updated 7:46 p.m. ET WASHINGTON — Attorney General Merrick B. Garland announced on Monday a sweepin...

Stopping killer cops: Do US police reforms go far enough? 20 Apr, 2021 10:46 PM 12 minutes to read A demonstrator at a protest following the death of Daunte Wright, an unarmed black man killed by police, in Brooklyn Centre, Minneapolis. Photo / Victor J Blue / The New York Times A demonstrator at a protest following the death of Daunte Wright, an unarmed black man killed by police, in Brooklyn Centre, Minneapolis. Photo / Victor J Blue / The New York Times New York Times By: Steve Eder, Michael...

Breonna Taylor show points art museums to a faster track Amy Sherald (b. 1973), Breonna Taylor, 2020. Oil on linen 137.2 x 109.2 cm / 54 x 43 inches. © Amy Sherald. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Joseph Hyde. by Holland Cotter (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- People talk a lot about getting back to pre-COVID normal. But our traditional art museums can forget about that. After a year of intense racial-justice reckoning, a paralyzing pandemic and crippling economic shortfalls, aging hidebo...

Stephanie Wolf Tamika Palmer says the art exhibition dedicated to her daughter, Breonna Taylor, is everything she hoped it would be; its peaceful, she says, "to be able to come to this place and just be filled with her spirit." Its been nearly 13 months since Louisville Metro Police officers shot and killed Taylor in her home. Now a show in her honor is on view at Louisvilles Speed Art Museum. Its called "Promise, Witness, Remembrance." Palmer never imagined her daughter would be memorializ...

Palmer — along with Taylors sister, JuNiyah Palmer, and aunt, Bianca Austin — had a hand in developing this show. "Weve never done anything like this," Tamika Palmer says. "So it was a learning process. But it was a nice space to be in." The family worked alongside a number of other community members, local artists and mental health professionals. Toya Northington, Community Engagement Strategist at the Speed Art Museum, wanted people who are close to the issues of police brutality and raci...