Crime

Afroman, whose real name is Joseph Foreman, poses for a portrait in New York in August 2001. On Monday, March 13, 2023, seven law enforcement officers filed suit against Afroman, accusing the rap artist of improperly using footage from a police raid on his Ohio home last year in his music videos. (Photo: Shawn Baldwin/AP, File)
Four deputies, two sergeants and a detective decried Afroman using footage of their faces obtained during a raid of his…
/ March 24, 2023
A northern Virginia police officer was fired Thursday after fatally shooting a man last month who had allegedly stolen two…
/ March 24, 2023
Memphis' law enforcement certification and decertification board is expected to decertify four men charged in Nichols' beating death.
/ March 24, 2023
New Jersey councilwoman Eunice Dwumfour killed
Witnesses say an assailant approached N.J. councilwoman Eunice Dwumfour outside her home on Feb. 1 and shot her several times.
/ March 23, 2023
One Black lawmaker and nine white ones have been chosen to negotiate final versions of bills that could expand the…
/ March 23, 2023
Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine, whose testimony against his own gang helped convict two high-ranking members, was assaulted by several people at a…
/ March 23, 2023
Former Haiti mayor Jean Morose Viliena
The former mayor of a Haiti town has been found guilty in the U.S. on charges including torture, extrajudicial killings,…
/ March 22, 2023
A large group of sheriff's deputies and employees of a Virginia mental hospital pinned patient Irvo Otieno to the floor earlier this…
/ March 22, 2023
An independent review says London police have lost the confidence of the public because of deep-seated racism, misogyny and homophobia.
/ March 22, 2023
In just weeks after the Iron Hill Museum in Newark, Del. opened its African American history trail, it was vandalized…
/ March 20, 2023
Armani Kelly, Montoya Givens and Dante Wicker went missing in late January after the cancelation of their show at a…
/ March 20, 2023
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is standing firm against Donald Trump’s increasingly hostile rhetoric.
/ March 20, 2023