crime and justice

3 min read 2023-03-22 07:59:42

Police Killed His Friend and Blamed Him. He Got 65 Years in Prison. He Was 15.

LaKeith Smith was 15 years old when he and four other Black teens broke into an empty house in Millbrook, Alabama, to steal an Xbox and other gaming

1 min read 2023-03-22 01:11:14

Surveillance footage from the Virginia psychiatric hospital where 28-year-old Irvo Otieno died on March 6 shows a group of sheriff deputies and

3 min read 2023-03-17 07:00:16

Two days after Virginia deputies were charged with second-degree murder for the killing of a Black man at a state mental hospital, the victim’s

3 min read 2023-03-17 07:00:16

Two days after Virginia deputies were charged with second-degree murder for the killing of a Black man at a state mental hospital, the victim’s

1 min read 2023-03-04 00:51:13

A South Carolina woman was arrested this week for allegedly taking abortion pills in October 2021 to end a pregnancy. The State reports the

3 min read 2023-02-24 07:54:43

Four months after a Mississippi police officer shot a Black 15-year-old, Jaheim McMillan, in the head outside a Family Dollar store, the state’s

3 min read 2023-02-20 09:47:32

On Friday Justice Paul Rouleau released his report of the inquiry into the Trudeau government’s decision to invoke the Emergencies Act in response

1 min read 2023-02-18 03:27:14

The New Orleans Police Department on Wednesday pulled a new recruitment video featuring, among many things, rainbows and Big Freedia backup dancers,

1 min read 2023-02-16 02:14:49

The Department of Justice has elected not to press charges against Rep. Matt Gaetz after a years-long sex-trafficking probe, according to a CNN

2 min read 2023-02-14 05:39:41

On Monday morning, the driver of a U-Haul in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, hit and injured eight people, apparently intentionally, in a stunning example of

3 min read 2023-02-13 09:04:26

“A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…” — opening scene, Star Wars The first thing I thought of when I heard the word RStar was the

3 min read 2023-02-12 03:05:26

Monterrious Harris, 22, was sitting in his car outside his cousin’s apartment in Memphis on January 4 when eight men in black hooded sweatshirts

5 min read 2023-02-11 18:00:57

Outside a Family Dollar store in Gulfport, Mississippi, a stream of cars enter a parking lot. It is early February, a Saturday, but no one is here to

3 min read 2023-02-06 09:39:54

Woke (/ˈwoʊk/ WOHK): adjective: aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social

1 min read 2023-02-05 00:33:53

Nineteen minutes is basically enough time to watch a sitcom without commercials, cook a frozen pizza in the oven at 400 degrees, or walk one mile at