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.
Nearly a dozen lawsuits have been filed on behalf of more than 60 people that were injured or arrested during the George Floyd protests in Denver during 2020.
The family of Breonna Taylor, who was killed by Louisville police in a botched, no-knock raid on the wrong apartment, expressed discontent with the recent acquittal of the one cop charged in the case.
Former Philadelphia Police detective James Pitts is facing a number of perjury charges related to the alleged assault of Obina Onyiah during a police interrogation in 2010.
“We encourage everyone, no matter where you are to really look at the image of this girl,” the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children said in a statement.
Former Louisville police officer Brett Hankison was acquitted by a jury of wanton endangerment for his role in a botched police raid that killed Breonna Taylor.
