A grand juror in the Breonna Taylor case has suggested the Kentucky attorney general may have misrepresented to the public the case presented to the panel, a lawyer for the juror said Tuesday....
"Ghost Skin" former Louisiana Detective Raymond Mott, above left, at KKK rally in 2014. The FBI coined the term "Ghost Skins" for white supremacist infiltrators of law enforcement.
How...
A Kentucky State Police ballistics report does not support Attorney General Daniel Cameron’s assertion that Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, shot a Louisville police officer the night...
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement on President Trump’s nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court:
"President Trump and Senate Republicans have badly...
Rev. Jesse Jackson is calling for an economic boycott of Kentucky in response to the decision not to charge any of the police officers who murdered Breonna Taylor.
A grand jury indicted one...
Derrick Johnson, president and CEO of the NAACP, issued the following statement regarding Donald Trump’s nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court:
“...
The 1965 murders of two civil rights activists––Jimmie Lee Jackson and James Reeb––ignited the now historic march from Selma to Montgomery, yet their sacrifice and impact on the movement that...
Congressmember Karen Bass (D-CA), Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, issued the following statement after Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron announced there would be no homicide...
A Black man killed by Los Angeles sheriff’s deputies wasn’t holding a gun when officers fired 19 shots at him, attorneys for his family said Tuesday, contradicting police officials’ claim that he...
Statement of Beatriz Beckford, national director for youth and education justice at MomsRising, an online and on-the-ground organization of more than one million mothers and their families, on the...
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron today charged former Louisville police officer Brett Hankison with three counts of wanton endangerment of the first degree. Charges were not brought...
In response to today’s announcement of only minor charges -- "wanton endangerment" -- for one of the Louisville police officers who shot and killed Breonna Taylor, Greenlining Institute President...
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