The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the latest bid to overturn his murder conviction for the fatal arrest of George Floyd more than three years ago. Derek Chauvin’s latest attempt to appeal his conviction is once again rejected. (Credit: Minnesota Department of Corrections)…
After pleading guilty to wire fraud charges and 14 other felonies, former “Basketball Wives LA” reality show cast member Brittish Williams has filed an appeal in St. Louis challenging her conviction based on sentencing guidelines. She believes the judge punished her excessively for being famous. The 33-year-old was sentenced to four years in October after…
Source: Houston Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers via Getty Images / Getty Better job prospects. Higher wages. A greater chance of staying out of jail. Those are the key outcomes that we discovered for incarcerated people who get an education while serving their time. Our findings were published in the American Journal of Criminal Justice. They are based…
An Orange County jury has convicted an Orlando man after evidence showed he killed a Burger King employee who had gotten into a dispute with his girlfriend about her order being filled too slowly. On Friday, Nov. 17, jurors found Kelvis Rodriguez-Tomes, 41, guilty of manslaughter after the Aug. 1, 2020, fatal shooting of Desmond…
Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson and Shannon Sharpe continue to make headlines with their hilarious non-sports-related tangents. This time the duo made waves online as Johnson talked about one of his sexual fixations. Near the end of the Nov. 19 episode of their podcast “Nightcap with Unc and Ocho,” Sharpe discussed a person in Toronto, Canada, whose…
Source: picture alliance / Getty Why does the media focus on Karen stories? After all, these low-hanging fruit stories involving white people who chronically become allergic to minding their own business when Black or Latino people are in their immediate vicinity are ultimately anecdotal, aren’t they? Why should major media outlets even lower themselves to…
Singer Tyla has only begun to cross over into mainstream pop music in America with her hit record “Water,” and already fans are divided as her ethnic classification as “coloured” has sparked an online debate. The 21-year-old hails from Johannesburg, South Africa. According to Business Insider, she is of Indian, Zulu, Mauritian, and Irish descent….
Some of the lyrics from rapper Young Thug’s music will be used against him in the YSL RICO trial, and one Atlanta rapper fears for what precedent this will set for all Americans. Thug, real name Jeffrey Lamar Williams, has been behind bars in the Fulton County Jail in Georgia since May 2022. The “Pick…
Source: ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / Getty The father of Ahmaud Arbery recently suggested that the prosecution of a former attorney general indicted more than two years ago for allegedly trying to cover up his son’s murder is being deliberately delayed. Marcus Arbery Sr. told Action News Jax in an interview that Jackie Johnson, the former district…
The New York City Fire Department has discovered the cause of a deadly three-alarm blaze that killed three people living in a Crown Heights brownstone in Brooklyn on Sunday, Nov. 12. Authorities linked the fire to the combustion of scooters being powered by cheap, unsafe lithium-ion batteries that don’t meet safety standards. The family members…
