New climate paper calls for charging big US oil firms with homicide
Authors of paper accepted for publication in Harvard Environmental Law Review argue firms are ‘killing members of the public at an accelerating rate’
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Authors of paper accepted for publication in Harvard Environmental Law Review argue firms are ‘killing members of the public at an accelerating rate’
During the three years that Brontina Smith’s son spent in Alabama’s Elmore County Jail awaiting trial, he packed about 50 pounds onto what had been a 135-pound frame. “So, now, it’s not letting the jury see that they’re dealing with a child,” said the mother of LaKeith Smith, who was 15 in February 2015 when he and a group of boys were caught burglarizing a home just outside of Montgomery. After a watchful neighbor called 9-1-1, Millbrook Police Department officers arrived. There was an exchange of gunfire, police said. An officer shot and killed A’Donte Washington, one of the ...
Jagger Freeman was unarmed and outside when police responded to an attempted robbery and fired 44 shots, killing one of their own. Because he acted as the lookout, Freeman was convicted of the officer's murder.
Sharon Hill Police Department officers Devon Smith, Sean Dolan, and Brian Devaney were charged with 12 counts each.
A stock image of the football field in Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania, where an altercation led to the death of Fanta Bility, and eight-year-old girl.