NAACP President Derrick Johnson's letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland comes days before former Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke is scheduled to be released from prison.
Arbery's parents' had objected to the plea deals, which would have allowed the men convicted in the death of Ahmaud Arbery serve their first 30 years in federal prison.
Ahmaud Arbery's mother calls new plea deal "disrespectful" after federal prosecutors offered an agreement that would avert a hate crimes trial for Gregory McMicheal and his son Travis McMichael.
Former Louisville police officer Brett Hankison faces three felony charges for allegedly firing his service weapon into Breonna Taylor’s neighbors’ apartments during the raid that killed her.
Seventeen-year-old Kendrick Johnson was found upside-down in a rolled-up gym mat in 2013. His family claims he was killed and the murder was covered up, but a new sheriff and federal authorities found otherwise after reopening the investigation.
Multiple people with Minneapolis law enforcement and first response teams testified that the officers with Derek Chauvin were required to help George Floyd.
Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón says that there is evidence that the 16-year-old, who was shot twice in the neck before being dumped on the side of a freeway, was the victim of human trafficking.
Several prosecution witnesses testified about their concerns over George Floyd's life during his ultimately fatal 2020 arrest in the ongoing trial of three former Minneapolis officers.
