Morgan Barnhill called the police to report an unknown intruder breaking into his shed. Authorities, however, say Barnhill lied about the alleged burglary after badly beating Etienne Murray, who died of his injuries days later.
Louisiana Trooper Chris Hollingsworth died in a single-car crash just hours after he was told that he would be fired for his role in Ronald Greene's arrest — while it was ruled accidental, some speculate it was suicide.
The family of Manuel Ellis, an unarmed man who Tacoma police tased, handcuffed, hogtied and beat, after which he pleaded “I can’t breathe” before suffocating to death in 2020, welcomed the settlement but said it’s “not enough."
The brother of Irvin D. Moorer Charley — who was fatally shot by deputies in Columbia, South Carolina over the weekend — was present during the incident and told the officers not to shoot because his brother was having a mental health crisis.
Peter Spencer, who was Black, was shot by one of the white men he went on a camping trip with in rural Pennsylvania last December. The district attorney says that charges aren't warranted.
Emmett Till's relatives presented Mississippi authorities with a petition signed by nearly 250,000 people requesting a renewed probe into the boy's notorious murder.
Bryant was 16 when she was killed in April 2021 by Columbus, Ohio police officer Nicholas Reardon. It led to a Justice Department review of the city's police department.
Father and son Gregory and Travis McMichael claim the federal government had not sufficiently proved that the unarmed jogger was killed on a public street.
“After more than 200 failed attempts to outlaw lynching, Congress is finally succeeding in taking a long overdue action by passing the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act,” said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
