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Curtis Flowers, who was wrongfully incarcerated for 23 years, will receive the state's maximum compensation of $500,000, Mississippi 5th Circuit Judge George...
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Kansas City is in the national spotlight after no charges were announced in the police shooting death of an unarmed Black man.
More families are...
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From left: George Bell, Gary Johnson and Rohan Bolt, along with their families.
After spending decades behind bars for a double murder in New York City in 1996, three...
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Earlier this month, the U.S. Attorney Office for the District of Oregon announced that it had closed the case on pursuing federal criminal charges against anyone involved in...
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Lora King was just seven when her father was beaten by officers from the Los Angeles Police Department – pummelled, stamped on, and struck with clubs so many times he never...
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The following commentary is by the National Committee for Justice in Denver which is reporting that police have been targeting and retaliating against racial justice...
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Wednesday, the House of Representatives passed the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, by a vote of 220 to 212.
The legislation is a bold, comprehensive...
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A silent march led by religious leaders took place on Sunday in Tacoma’s Hilltop neighborhood, to honor Manuel Ellis ahead of the one-year anniversary of his killing by...
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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) and Senator Edward J. Markey (D-MA) this week reintroduced the Ending Qualified Immunity Act to eliminate the unjust and court-...
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Monday, the Minnesota Court of Appeals heard arguments on whether a third-degree murder charge should be reinstated against former police officer Derek Chauvin, who killed...
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Writer David Dozier argues here that President Joe Biden's plan to end the death penalty is supported by public opinion.
A study in California revealed that the...
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Monday, U.S. Representative Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08), the National Action Network and Gwen Carr, the mother of Eric Garner, announced the reintroduction of the Eric Garner...
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New and compelling evidence has emerged that Julius Jones, a man on death row in Oklahoma since 2002, did not commit the murder he was convicted of and for which he was...
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has issued the following statement, following the allegations by two former staffers, Lindsey Boylen, and...
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New York governor Andrew Cuomo has asked the state’s attorney general Letitia James and the Janet DiFiore chief judge of the court of...
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