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OPINION: It’s time to call for immediate action to investigate, discipline, and hold police accountable in issues of police brutality

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Victim Botham Jean's neighbor Joshua Brown, left, answers questions from Assistant District Attorney LaQuita Long, right, while pointing to a map of the South Side Flats where he lives, while testifying during the murder trial of former Dallas Police Officer Amber Guyger, in Dallas. Authorities say that Brown was killed in a shooting Friday, Oct. 4. (Tom Fox/The Dallas Morning News via AP, Pool) thegrio.com

Joshua Brown Murder: Witness in Amber Guyger trial for killing Botham Jean was set to testify in civil case before being gunned down

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Amber Guyger murder trial continued on Saturday, Botham Jean’s 27th birthday

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Prosecution rests in Amber Guyger murder trial while defense team now prepares to get the former Dallas officer off

The prosecution has rested and now its time for the defense to try to prove that a white Dallas police officer who fatally shot her unarmed Black neighbor is innocent.
/ September 27, 2019

EXCLUSIVE: Civil Rights Attorney Benjamin Crump demands former Dallas officer, Amber Guyger be charged with tampering of evidence and conspiracy on top of murder

Attorney Benjamin Crump, who represents the family of Botham Jean, the unarmed Black man fatally shot by former Dallas Police Officer Amber Guyger, demands that she be brought up on additional charges.
/ September 26, 2019

Amber Guyger murder trial: Listen to her frantic 911 call

On day two of the Amber Guyger murder trial, jurors heard her frantic 911 call and watched shocking body-camera footage from the night she fatally shot Botham Jean in his apartment.
/ September 25, 2019
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No charges against ex-officers who mocked Black woman and made her walk home

Charges will not be filed against two white ex-Detroit police officers who were fired amid an investigation into racist comments
/ September 25, 2019
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Black judge tearing into DA during police killing trial goes viral

The Amber Guyger murder trial started off day one with Judge Tammy Kemp seething over the District Attorney’s violation of
/ September 24, 2019
A school resource officer has been suspended after arresting 6-year-old Kaia Rolle in Orlando, Florida. (NY Daily News) thegrio.com

Florida cop who arrested 6-year-old girl over school tantrum fired

The Florida officer who was under fire for arresting and handcuffing two six-year-olds at an elementary school before hauling them
/ September 24, 2019
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As Amber Guyger, the former cop who killed Botham Jean, stands trial, his sister seeks justice

The murder trial of Amber Guyger, the former Dallas police officer who killed 26-year-old accountant, Botham Jean in his own apartment, starts on Monday.
/ September 23, 2019