Crime

Family demands answers after 21-year-old Black man is killed by deputy during traffic stop

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Cops arrest man with weapons and more outside Obama’s D.C. home

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Maryland Supreme Court to review ruling that reinstated Adnan Syed’s murder conviction

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Report: Connecticut troopers falsified traffic stop data sent to racial profiling board

Hundreds of Connecticut state police troopers falsified information on at least 26,000 traffic stops from 2014 to 2021, skewing reports…
/ June 29, 2023

Jonathan Majors files complaint against ex-girlfriend over arrest

Actor Jonathan Majors and his legal team filed an NYPD complaint against his ex-girlfriend, who accused him of assault.
/ June 28, 2023

Family ‘devastated’ after white woman charged with manslaughter in death of Black mom Ajike ‘AJ’ Owens

The family members of Ajike "AJ" Owens are shocked and saddened that her killer was charged with manslaughter, not murder.
/ June 28, 2023

Daniel Penny, who held Jordan Neely in fatal chokehold, pleads not guilty to revised, lesser charge

Subway rider, Daniel Penny, pleaded not guilty Wednesday in the chokehold death of Jordan Neely, a Michael Jackson impersonator.
/ June 28, 2023

Oregon police investigating beating of Black man as bias crime

A Black food truck owner in Oregon has retained a lawyer to investigate an alleged attack he suffered at the…
/ June 28, 2023
California Attorney General Rob Bonta, theGrio.com

Report: Hate crimes against Black people rise in California

Reported hate crimes increased in California in 2022, including instances of violence motivated by bias, according to state data released…
/ June 28, 2023

5 Mississippi deputies accused of beating, sexually assaulting 2 Black men, fired

All five Mississippi deputy sheriffs accused of beating and sexually assaulting two Black men before shooting one of them in…
/ June 28, 2023

Carlishia Hood survived the violence of the street and the wrath of the justice system. But at what cost?

Hood, the Chicago mom whose son shot and killed the man who assaulted her, is a victim, but her decisions…
/ June 27, 2023
Stephen Lawrence murder London

London cops apologize for ‘significant error’ in probe of racist killing of teenager

London's Metropolitan Police Service acknowledged there were serious errors made in its probe into Stephen Lawrence's 1993 murder.
/ June 27, 2023

Ralph Yarl talks to Robin Roberts about white man shooting him after he rang the wrong doorbell

Andrew Lester, 84, has pleaded not guilty to first-degree assault and armed criminal action in the April 13 shooting of…
/ June 27, 2023
Ajike Owens murder

White Florida woman accused of shooting through door, killing Black mom charged

A white woman accused of firing through her door and fatally shooting a Black mother in front of her 9-year-old son in…
/ June 27, 2023

Family of Damien Cameron, killed by police in 2021, hold press conference urging force for additional information

Deputies were dispatched to the town of Braxton, Mississippi, in July 2021, resulting in the death of 29-year-old Damien Cameron.
/ June 26, 2023