Crime

Buffalo supermarket gunman charged with federal hate crimes

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Hate crimes, need to feel safe lead to more Black people buying guns 

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Supreme Court reverses itself, allows death sentence to stand for Texas inmate 

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Orlando teams with voting advocate to roll out program that predicts who might get shot or shoot someone

The Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, which fought for the right of people convicted of most felonies to vote, will lead…
/ June 13, 2022
TempeTownLake

Sean Bickings, the Tempe man police watched drown, remembered as ‘a big teddy bear,’ who was ‘truly loved’

Sean Bickings, who is Black, died begging for his life as police officers watched him struggle to stay afloat in…
/ June 12, 2022

Virginia city plagued by violence to hold gun buyback event

The Hampton Roads Black Caucus-funded program allows Portsmouth residents to hand over a gun and receive money or a gift…
/ June 12, 2022

Prosecutor who charged Michigan cop in Patrick Lyoya killing praised by his critics

Republican Kent County prosecutor Chris Becker on Thursday charged Grand Rapids officer Christopher Schurr with second-degree murder.
/ June 12, 2022
Chicago Graduates New Class Of Police Officers

Chicago cop who faced 24 misconduct claims and put hands on a Black woman walking her dog in a park has resigned

A white Chicago Police officer who physically assaulted a Black woman walking her dog in August 2021 has resigned from…
/ June 11, 2022

A look at high-profile killings by US police

Officers are rarely charged with crimes in civilian deaths, and it’s even rarer for them to be convicted. Some recent…
/ June 11, 2022
TempeTownLake

Tempe citizens demand police budget cut, water rescue training after cops watch Black man drown

Groups including PLM Phoenix Metro and White People Against White Supremacy gathered to decry the drowning of Sean Bickings.
/ June 10, 2022

Buffalo shooter’s manifesto quoted a university researcher. That’s raising questions about racism in academia 

The work of Michael Woodley, a 38-year-old British academic, was credited in Payton S. Gendron's proclamation posted online.
/ June 10, 2022

NAACP president says NFL coach should be fired for comparing BLM protests to Jan. 6 insurrection 

"It is time for Jack Del Rio to resign or be terminated," said NAACP's Derrick Johnson, calling his comments "offensive…
/ June 10, 2022
Alabama, Juvenile, theGrio.com

Colonizers intended mostly Black people to land in solitary confinement, and that’s exactly what’s happened

America’s first penitentiary was established in Philadelphia in 1790, and it contained the nation’s first solitary confinement cells.
/ June 10, 2022
Tyrone Chalmers

Tenn. man on death row can argue he lacks the intellectual ability needed to be executed

Tyrone Chalmers can pursue arguments that he is intellectually disabled and should not be executed under state law, a federal…
/ June 9, 2022
Christopher Schurr (AP/FILE)

Officer who shot Patrick Lyoya in back of head charged with second-degree murder

Christopher Schurr, a Michigan police officer who killed Patrick Lyoya, a Black man, with a shot to the back of his…
/ June 9, 2022