A former Minneapolis police officer has been sentenced to 57 months (almost five years) in prison for his role in the death of George Floyd. The officer, Tou Thao, was found guilty of aiding and […]
A former Minneapolis police officer who knelt on George Floyd’s back has been sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison for his role in Mr Floyd’s death. J Alexander Kueng pleaded guilty to a state charge […]
The 2020 police killing of a motorist in the car park of a Georgia fast-food restaurant was legally justified, a special prosecutor has ruled. Rayshard Brooks, 27, was fatally shot about three weeks after the […]
Four US police officers have been arrested and charged over the fatal 2020 shooting of Breonna Taylor. Ms Taylor was killed in her home in Louisville, Kentucky, by plainclothes police who were executing a “no-knock” […]
Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has been sentenced to more than 20 years in prison for violating George Floyd’s civil rights. Chauvin, 46, pleaded guilty to the separate federal civil rights charges in December. […]
The Biden Justice Department has announced that it will sue the state of Georgia over new voting laws passed in the aftermath of the 2020 election. Attorney General Merrick Garland said the laws were “enacted […]
The daughters of assassinated US black civil rights leader Malcolm X have requested that the murder investigation be reopened in light of new evidence. They cite a deathbed letter from a man who was a […]
Today marks the 92nd birthday of Viola Gregg Liuzzo, the only known white woman killed during the Civil Rights Movement. Liuzzo has a special place in American history, but it was a long, hard road […]
Iberia Parish Sheriff Louis Ackal, who was accused of encouraging or ignoring the beatings of black jail inmates was acquitted on federal civil rights charges Friday. Ackal said: “When they said that I was not […]
Civil rights organizations wants Facebook (FB) to clarify its position on removing videos and other content that document human rights issues. Mark Zuckerberg, FB’s CEO, has been asked to clarify his company’s position on protecting […]
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