District attorneys in three major American cities will host truth and reconciliation commissions intent on giving voice to citizens who have suffered from police violence or prosecutorial overreach.
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Protesters against Africa’s first Covid-19 vaccine trial burned their face masks Wednesday as experts note a worrying level of resistance and misinformation around testing on the continent.
Read moreA black man sued Travelodge in San Mateo County Court, claiming a desk clerk would not let him check in to a hotel in San Francisco, though he had prepaid for his room with a debit card, then called police and told them, falsely, that he had a gun and had threatened her with it.
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Body camera video shows Antonio Arnelo Smith handing his driver’s license to a black police officer and answering questions cooperatively before a white officer walks up behind him, wraps him in a bear hug and slams him face-first to the ground.
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(CN) — Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves on Tuesday signed a bill officially retiring the Confederate symbol that has been sewed
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A Georgia judge on Tuesday granted a $500,000 bond for the former Atlanta police officer charged with the murder of Rayshard Brooks in a fast-food parking lot.
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The Eighth Circuit ruled Monday that a former St. Louis circuit attorney is entitled to absolute immunity over her prosecution of a white former police officer, whose acquittal in the death of a black motorist sparked a wave of often violent protests.
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Mississippi will retire the last state flag in the U.S. with the Confederate battle emblem, more than a century after white supremacist legislators adopted the design a generation after the South lost the Civil War.
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At a hearing Monday for the four officers charged in connection with George Floyd’s death, a Minnesota judge warned state prosecutors not to allow further public comment on the case before it goes to trial.
Read moreThe American Civil Liberties Union filed a class action lawsuit against Portland, Oregon police on Sunday, claiming journalists and legal observers were targeted and attacked by officers while covering protests over the killing of George Floyd.
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Republican Governor Brian Kemp signed Georgia’s new hate crimes bill into law Friday after state lawmakers passed the measure in a historic vote three days before, finally removing Georgia from a list of only four states without a hate crimes law on their books.
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The Minneapolis City Council took an early step toward its promised reimagining of the city’s police department Friday morning, voting unanimously in favor of a proposal to change the city charter.
Read moreBlack Lives Matter 5280 et al. sued the City and County of Denver in federal court, claiming its police forces used unconstitutional violence against peaceful protesters from May 28 through June 2, including tear gas, pepper spray, grenades and stunning devices.
Read moreEleven businesses and three people sued Seattle in a federal class action, claiming its toleration of protesters occupying the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone is an unconstitutional taking and a nuisance that denied the plaintiffs due process.
Read moreGeorge Floyd’s death sparked international protest, rocking the consciousness of millions who watched his life evaporate under the knee of a police officer, but in the throes of national outrage and despair, the House of Representatives took up the mantle to address racial inequities in policing and passed a sweeping reform bill that is not expected to survive in the Senate.
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Five women born in the former Belgian Congo in the 1940s and forcibly taken from their mothers are suing the Belgian state for crimes against humanity, according to legal documents seen Thursday by AFP.
Read moreLawmakers in Oregon advanced police accountability bills in a special session that kicked off Wednesday due in large part to pressure from nightly protests in Portland and across the state demanding an end to police violence.
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Californians will have the chance to ditch the state’s 24-year-old ban on affirmative action this November after lawmakers on Wednesday moved forward a piece of law to let voters decide whether gender and race should be a consideration in contracting, public hiring and public education.
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The Boston City Council voted unanimously Wednesday to prohibit police from using facial-recognition technology, becoming the largest city in the country to do so after San Francisco.
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A Los Angeles City Council committee voted unanimously Wednesday to send a package of police reform proposals to the full council for consideration, including a recommendation that police be restricted from responding to mental health emergencies and a bid to make it illegal when people make frivolous 911 calls based on racist beliefs.
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