A judge has supported murder charges against the police officers set to stand trial for the death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, NBC News reports....
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Michael Slager, Cop Who Fatally Shot Walter Scott In South Carolina, Indicted For Murder
A grand jury has indicted a former South Carolina police officer in the April shooting of an unarmed black man, the prosecutor announced on Monday....
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71 Arrested In Cleveland Protests Over Cop’s Acquittal In Deaths Of Unarmed Black Motorists
CLEVELAND (AP) — Cleveland emerged unscathed and intact after a day of protests following the acquittal of a white patrolman who had been on trial in the shooting deaths of two unarmed black suspects...
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Grand Jury Indicts Six Officers In Freddie Gray Case
A grand jury has indicted six Baltimore officers on a range of charges after State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby presented her department’s investigation into the death of Freddie Gray....
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Michael Brown Is Getting A Permanent Memorial In Ferguson
ST. LOUIS — Dozens of teddy bears that memorialized Michael Brown were removed from a site on Canfield Drive in Ferguson, Missouri, on Wednesday afternoon. The memorial will be replaced by a permanent plaque...
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Newly Released Footage Shows Shackled Freddie Gray Placed In Police Van Head First
Additional footage of Freddie Gray’s arrest by the Baltimore Police has raised questions about the case and Gray’s state during the incident that took his life....
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Is Being Mentally Ill in America a Crime?
In the debate on mass incarceration, there’s a story to be told about how our prisons are becoming the new asylums where the mentally ill are misunderstood and locked away, punished for their illness...
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No charges for St. Louis officer who killed 18-year-old VonDerrit Myers
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A prosecutor says no charges will be filed against an off-duty white police officer who shot and killed a black 18-year-old in October....
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Ferguson in Three Movements
Click to view this article in its original format as it appeared in The Transformational Agenda Magazine The Spark That Ignited Ferguson Hundreds flooded into The Canfield Green Apartment Complex while Michael Brown’s body...
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