US veteran Daniel Penny on trial in New York for fatal subway chokehold | Racism News
Penny faces up to 15 years in prison for manslaughter in the racially-charged trial. A former United States Marine is set to go on trial for…
US federal jury convicts three officers in fatal Tyre Nichols beating | Black Lives Matter News
Three former police officers have been convicted on federal charges related to the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols in Memphis, Tennessee — an incident in…
Second ex-US police officer pleads guilty in death of Tyre Nichols | Courts News
Emmitt Martin is one of five fired officers charged over the fatal beating in 2023 that renewed calls for police reform.A second former Memphis police…
How US police are co-opting a law meant to protect victims of crime | Police News
Columbus, Ohio – Some of the final moments of Ta’Kiya Young’s life unfolded in a supermarket car park last August. Suspected of stealing from a…
Former US police officer sentenced in killing of Black man Elijah McClain | Black Lives Matter News
Randy Roedema handed 14-month sentence for 2019 killing of McClain, who was put in a chokehold, injected with ketamine. A former police officer in the…
US paramedics found guilty in 2019 death of Black man Elijah McClain | Black Lives Matter News
McClain fell unconscious after police put him in a chokehold before paramedics injected him with powerful sedative. Two paramedics in the western US state of…
Sadiq Khan’s officials promoting Black Lives Matter on their emails
OFFICIALS working for Sadiq Khan are promoting Black Lives Matter in their emails, the Sun on Sunday can reveal. The Mayor of London has been…
Angela Davis: ‘Palestine is a moral litmus test for the world’ | Israel-Palestine conflict
Citing the late poet June Jordan, political activist Angela Davis stresses the importance of Palestine for other social justice movements. There has been a long…
Former US police officers face federal charges over death of Tyre Nichols | Courts News
The five officers are already facing state-level charges for beating Nichols, who died in the hospital three days later. Five former police officers in the…
US police release footage showing fatal shooting of pregnant Black woman | Police News
Ta’Kiya Young and her unborn child were killed by police in Ohio in incident family says could have been avoided. Police in the US state…
Matt Gaetz wants to censure judge hearing Trump election subversion case
In an effort to defend former president Donald Trump against felony charges U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., Friday introduced a censure resolution against U.S. District…
Ex-law officers plead guilty to charges of torturing two Black men in US | Crime News
Six former Mississippi law enforcement officers, all of whom are white, have pleaded guilty to state charges for torturing two Black men in a racist…
US Justice Department opens civil rights probe into Memphis policing | Civil Rights News
The US Department of Justice has opened a civil rights investigation into the city of Memphis and its police department, months after the beating death…
Photos: Monument cements Emmett Till case as ‘an American story’ | Civil Rights News
US President Joe Biden’s establishment of a national monument honouring Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, marks the fulfilment of a promise Till’s relatives…
Biden honours Emmett Till, his mother with US national monument | Civil Rights News
Washington, DC – US President Joe Biden has established a national monument to honour Emmett Till, the Black teenager whose 1955 lynching galvanised the civil rights…
Outrage in France after police shoot 17-year-old in Paris suburb | Race Issues News
Protests erupt after teenager shot dead in Paris suburb of Nanterre after allegedly refusing to stop car for police. Clashes have broken out between demonstrators…
US DOJ: ‘Systemic’ police problems led to murder of George Floyd | Police News
Report details abuses against Black residents long before the May 2020 killing of Floyd captured the world’s attention. The United States Department of Justice (DOJ)…
Online trolls are using immigration as a wedge issue for 2018 midterm election
Reporting from Washington — Clad in military jackets, with bandannas hiding their faces, Eddie Alvarez and other members of the Brown Berets clashed with other protesters…
Fort Liberty: US army base Fort Bragg drops Confederate namesake | Military News
Fort Bragg has shed its Confederate namesake to become Fort Liberty in a ceremony that some veterans said was a small but important step in…
Former D.C. police intelligence supervisor charged over Proud Boys links
1/4 An ex-supervisor in the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia's intelligence unit was indicted this week for alerting Enrique Tarrio (pictured), the…