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Lawmakers have been trying to pass reparation bills for descendants of slaves. Here’s why it’s taken so long – and how it might work.
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Civil rights attorney Ben Crump is calling for an investigation after Florida police ruled the death of a Black man found hanging from
An investigation is ongoing following the death of a worker at a Hinton, Alta. pulp mill on Monday that prompted a stop work order for a scaffolding contractor.
A spokesperson for the province’s ministry of labour and immigration confirmed in an email that a worker fatality at the West Fraser
Six Louisville Metro Police officers are under an internal investigation into their actions related to the fatal shooting
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 5, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — M.R. Parker Law, a Los Angeles firm specializing in wrongful death and personal injury cases, has filed a lawsuit in the case of Jerry Lewis, the 50-year-old Gardena man killed over not wearing a face mask.
The firm brought the
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An Edmonton lawyer pleaded guilty Monday to a charge related to a fatal collision in 2018.
Shane Stevenson was originally charged with impaired driving causing death, being impaired while causing an
The Arlington branch of the NAACP is calling for an independent investigation into an inmate’s death inside the county jail last week.
The incident happened on the afternoon of Thursday, Oct. 1 at the Arlington County Detention Facility in Courthouse. Darryl Becton, 46, was found unconscious in his cell and
CLAIM: Demetrius Griffin Jr., a Black teenager in Chicago, was killed in 2016 by “other Black kids” who burned him to death because he “refused to join their gang.”
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. Griffin’s death remains an open investigation, according to Chicago police. There are no suspects at this time.
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Corrections and clarifications: An earlier version said a Maryland woman was bit while on a walk. She lives in Washington, D.C.
Police dogs are often portrayed as harmless, loveable members of the local police. But many departments across the country use dogs as weapons, training the animals to bite thousands
A family attorney said Cummings’ mother is ‘heartbroken and dismayed’ by the attorney general’s conclusion.
ALBANY, N.Y. — A New York State investigation says there was no “criminal culpability” found in the death of India Cummings, who died after a stay at the Erie County Holding Center in 2016.
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Five cops have resigned after they were investigated over the death of a Black man who died after experiencing a medical emergency in police custody in January, authorities said Thursday
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg cops — four officers and a sergeant — allegedly failed to seek immediate medical attention for Harold Easter,
A Las Vegas attorney, recently charged with writing $400,000 in bad checks, told police in 2017 that he used cocaine with a woman who died of a drug overdose.
He also acknowledged that he never called authorities to report her death, according to police records.
Attorney Brian Padgett, 47, told