“Defendant thus did not just inflict physical pain. He caused Mr. Floyd psychological distress during the final moments of his life.” Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison submitted paperwork, signed by Assistant Attorney General Matthew Frank, on April 30 requesting former police officer Derek Chauvin receive a severe sentence for the murder of George Floyd. The…

Anjanette Young was handcuffed for nearly 17 minutes while in her home The Civilian Office of Police Accountability announced on Thursday the completion of the 16-month investigation into the 2019 wrongful raid conducted on the home of Anjanette Young, a Chicago social worker. Young was forced to stand naked and handcuffed in her home, according…

Officials believed everyone on board was accounted for Three people were killed and more than two dozen others were hospitalized after a wooden boat capsized Sunday during a possible human smuggling operation just off the San Diego coast, authorities said.  Local lifeguards, the U.S. Coast Guard and other agencies responded around 10:30 a.m. following reports…

Kenya Moore stopped fans in their tracks on April 30 after the “Real Housewives of Atlanta” star uploaded a bikini pic showcasing her tight body as she posed on a yacht.  Moore, who captioned the image “Serving with a twist of lime ,” is currently filming the Housewives crossover series called the “Real Housewives All-Stars.” The…

India recorded a slight drop in new COVID-19 infections with 392,488 from a high of 401,993 in the previous 24 hours With Indian hospitals struggling to secure a steady supply of oxygen, and more COVID-19 patients dying amid the shortages, a court in New Delhi said it would start punishing government officials for failing to…

Aldi, an international supermarket chain, has publicly apologized for the racist attack that a Ghanaian-German shopper was subjected to inside one of its stores. In the original video posted by Prince Ofori, a German-Ghanaian dance teacher, a number of shoppers in a Berlin store can be seen yelling at Ofori in German, and a man…

The U.S. has been criticized for focusing first on vaccinating Americans  The U.S. top trade negotiator will begin talks with the World Trade Organization on ways to overcome intellectual property issues that are keeping critically needed COVID-19 vaccines from being more widely distributed worldwide, two White House officials said Sunday. The White House has been under pressure…

“This revised budget will start St. Louis on a new path to tackling some of the root causes of crime,” said Mayor Tishaura Jones St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones proposed a new city budget including a $4 million cut from the police department. According to the St. Louis Post-Disptach, Jones has shown a commitment to…

The Baton Rouge man who was found guilty of first-degree murder in the September 2017 killing that left two Black men dead searched the internet for topics like White nationalism, genocide, Nazi propaganda and gun silencers, an FBI agent testified days before the man was found guilty by a jury on Monday. A Baton Rouge…