Crime

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Kansas City, Mo. police Sgt. Herb Robinson claims in a lawsuit that two officers racially profiled him when they stopped…
/ April 24, 2022
The Rev. Al Sharpton demanded that authorities identify the Michigan officer who killed Patrick Lyoya, a Black man and native…
/ April 24, 2022
The street value of fentanyl is about $100 per gram, putting the haul’s value at about $4.2 million, according to…
/ April 23, 2022
Six Black children were allegedly mistreated and forced to sit in a separate group from their white peers at a…
/ April 23, 2022
Richard Bernard Moore's death warrant in South Carolina has renewed interest in how a state plans to shoot an inmate…
/ April 23, 2022
Pamela Moses
Charges against Black Lives Matter activist Pamela Moses are dismissed. She will no longer face a second trial for registering…
/ April 23, 2022
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The GOP-led legislature of Tennessee passed a new bill that requires persons sentenced for certain felonies to serve 100% of…
/ April 22, 2022
Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin used April 20, or 4/20, to announce pardons for people convicted of marijuana possession.
/ April 22, 2022
The Justice Department has wrapped an investigation into inmate conditions at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, also known as Parchman.
/ April 21, 2022
Trooper Brian North turned himself in this week over two years after Mubarak Soulemane, 19, was fatally shot at the…
/ April 21, 2022
South Carolina’s highest court issued a temporary stay blocking the state from executing Richard Bernard Moore on April 29 by…
/ April 21, 2022
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Aariel Maynor, the man convicted of the shooting death of Jacqueline Avant, has been sentenced to 190 years in prison.
/ April 20, 2022