dismissal capped a "chaotic finish to a high-profile trial" where a judge first announced that the jury found Rialmo unjustified in his shooting of LeGrier...

the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival. A dramatization of the teenage years of athlete Colin Kaepernick and the experiences that led him to become...

wrongfully convicted of armed robbery in Florida in 2003. Leonard Cure (November 23, 1969 – October 16, 2023) was wrongfully convicted of armed robbery in...

Desmond Roe. The film examines the deaths of Black Americans during encounters with police through the eyes of a character trapped in a time loop that keeps...

Ziminskis pled guilty to burglary and robbery with threat of force in exchange for dismissal of other charges related to the robbery and in Joshuas case...

awareness of social inequalities such as racial injustice, sexism, and denial of LGBT rights. Woke has also been used as shorthand for some ideas of the American...

On March 21, 2024, Dexter Reed was shot and killed by officers of the Chicago Police Department (CPD) in Humboldt Park, Chicago, United States. Reed fired...

The shooting of Ralph Yarl was on April 13, 2023, in Kansas City, Missouri. The 16-year-old African American teenager was shot twice after ringing the...

on the 2017 young adult novel of the same name by Angie Thomas. The film was produced by Marty Bowen, Wyck Godfrey, Robert Teitel and Tillman Jr., and stars...

found guilty of helping Barton and Taylor flee to the Netherlands before their eventual arrest. On 10 May 2006, Robert Williams was convicted of providing...

A bronze statue of George Floyd (1973–2020), an African-American man who was murdered by police in Minneapolis, was completed by Stanley Watts and unveiled...

In May 2022, a biography of Floyd titled His Name Is George Floyd was published, written by Washington Post journalists Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa...

2021. Retrieved July 12, 2015. Bases, Daniel; Goelman, Zachary; Macmillan, Robert (December 3, 2014). "Protesters block NY streets after officer cleared in...

Archived from the original on February 26, 2024. Retrieved October 2, 2023. Roberts, Nigel (July 21, 2023). "Louisville Names First Black Woman As Police Chief"...

(EMTs), Robert Long and JaMichael Sandridge, who were on scene had been relieved of duty without further explanation. A week later, a total of three MFS...

became more distressed, still complaining of breathing difficulties, of the knee on his neck, and of fear of imminent death. After several minutes, Floyd...

a formal disciplinary process. An officer who is facing a misconduct dismissal will often threaten the agency and its governmental entity with costly...

served as a board member of Forward Together's Oakland branch, Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity, and Oakland's School of Unity and Liberation/SOUL...

families, and homes from threatening or violent intruders" and request dismissal of the cases against the McCloskeys. Schmitt expressed his concern for "the...

1998) is a Japanese professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for...

since 2021. The district includes all of the city of St. Louis and most of northern St. Louis County. A member of the Democratic Party, on August 4, 2020...

Democratic member of the South Carolina Senate, representing the 45th District from 2000 until his murder in 2015. He was previously a member of the South Carolina...

On the night of September 6, 2018, 26-year-old accountant Botham Jean was murdered in Dallas, Texas by off-duty Dallas Police Department patrol officer...

last words of Eric Garner, an unarmed man who was killed in 2014 after being put in a chokehold by a New York City Police Officer. A number of other Black...

February 10, 2021. Retrieved July 25, 2015. Stanton, Robert (July 22, 2015). "Video shows that traffic stop of woman who died in Texas jail escalated quickly"...

hosting an episode of Saturday Night Live. The song features background vocals from Young Thug alongside fellow American rappers Slim Jxmmi of Rae Sremmurd...

he had used a gun to threaten a man outside a convenience store. The owner of the store where the shooting occurred said that Sterling was "not the one...

convict Dunn for the murder of Davis at the first trial. In a second trial, Dunn was found guilty of the first-degree murder of Davis and sentenced to life...

Burge Dismissal of Robert Rialmo Police oversight in Chicago Sanburn, Josh (November 24, 2015). "Chicago Releases Video of Laquan McDonald Shooting"....

Timothy Loehmann, a 26-year-old white patrolman with the Cleveland Division of Police (CDP). Rice was carrying a replica toy gun; Loehmann shot him almost...