Criminal Justice
Criminal Justice
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Police Strip Searching Teen and Entering Home Without Warrant Leads to Baton Rouge Paying Out $35,000 to Family
Clarence Green was driving in his car on New Yearâs Day last year when he was pulled over by a police officer in Baton Rouge, La. The ensuing traffic stop was anything but routine as the officer proceeded to publicly strip search Green and his 16-year-old brother. Over a year later, the city of Baton…
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Patrisse Cullors Is Stepping Down From the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation to Focus on New Things
Nearly eight years ago, she co-founded the organization named for arguably the largest modern civil rights movement the nation and world have ever seen. Now, Patrisse Cullors is stepping down from the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation to focus on other aspects of the career and platform she has built for herself over the…
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Bill Cosby Denied Parole After Refusing to Complete Sex Offender Treatment Program
The Pennsylvania Parole Board has denied Bill Cosbyâs parole, Deadline confirmed on Thursday. Cosby has been incarcerated at Pennsylvaniaâs State Correctional Institution at SCI Phoenix located in Collegeville for nearly three years after being convicted for drugging and sexually assaulting former Temple University employee Andrea Constand in 2004. He was sentenced to serve three to…
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Mother of Tamir Rice Fighting to Prevent Officer Who Shot Her Son From Getting His Job Back
The mother of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old boy who was fatally shot over six years ago by Cleveland police, is fighting to make sure that the police officer responsible for the shooting doesnât get his job back on the police force. According to NBC News, Rice was fatally shot in November 2014 when Officer Timothy…
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2 Tacoma Police Officers Charged With Murder and a 3rd Charged With Manslaughter in Death of Manuel Ellis
Weeks before George Floyd was murdered by ex-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, another Black man in Tacoma, Wash., died in police custody shortly after telling the officers who were restraining him, âI canât breathe.â That man was 33-year-old Manuel Ellis, and on Thursday, two of the police officers involved in his death were charged with…
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Canât Stop Karening: Amy Cooper Files Lawsuit Against Ex-Employer Alleging Discrimination After She Was Fired When Central Park Video Went Viral
Whatever happened to just taking the L? Whether it be the former president and his acolytes or the Central Park Karen, thereâs an alarming lack of folks going, âyou know what, thatâs on me, I fucked up.â One would hope a year was enough time for Amy Cooper to realize why she was wrong, why…
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White Cops Take Trophy Hunting Photo of Smiling Black Bank Robbery Suspect, and We Have Questions
KRS-One taught me that âoverseersâ said fast enough and over a long period of time sound a lot like âofficersâ in his seminal text, âSound of da Police,â so it isnât shocking to me that cops do corrupt things. But I definitely have a ton of questions for the police in Prentiss, Miss., the news…