Dartavius Barnes is suing the city of Springfield and the Springfield Police Department for what he says is the desecration of his two year-old daughter’s cremated ashes during a warrantless search. A man is suing the city of Springfield, Illinois and the Springfield Police Department for what he says was the “desecration” of his child’s…
“What we’ve come to realize over the past decades is that police departments, with their oversized budgets and their outsized political power, are able to rise above reformist policies,” an organizer said. Monifa Bandele became a community organizer in the late 1990s, after New York City police fatally shot a young, unarmed Black immigrant named…
Legendary music producer Quincy Jones knows how to make a hit record just as well as he knows how to get the public’s attention with his off-the-wall anecdotes. Jones rarely does interviews now that he is 88 years old, but when he does it’s safe to say readers should expect a wild ride down Jones’…
Despite being seen at multiple outings together, Lamar Odom is declaring that he and Karlie Redd are “just friends.” On Friday, May 20, he made a guest appearance on “The Wendy Williams Show,” where the talk show host grilled him about what she called “a fake relationship” between the basketball star and the “Love and…
Last Friday, a federal jury decided that two brothers who spent more than three decades in prison for crimes they did not commit should receive $75 million from the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation. Leon Brown, 63, and 57-year-old Henry McCollum, half brothers, were arrested in 1983 as teenagers, and spent 31 years in…
Tattoo boss Ceaser Emanuel’s parental woes have now taken a legal turn. TMZ reported that the “Black Ink Crew: New York” star recently filed a lawsuit against his ex-girlfriend Crystal Torres after she accused the reality star of physically abusing their now-17-year-old daughter Cheyenne. The 41-year-old filed a suit for defamation against Crystal for publicly accusing him…
The trial will start on Nov. 1 Kyle Rittenhouse was present in court on Friday, and according to reports, he has retained a new attorney. Rittenhouse was charged with killing two people during protests for Jacob Blake, the man shot by police last August in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Rittenhouse’s first in-person court hearing was Friday, per NBC News….
“There is nothing on its face to show that there was anything illegal about them performing their duty.” Murder charges have been dropped against two of the three Jackson, Mississippi police officers who were charged with second-degree murder in connection with the death of 62-year-old George Robinson in January 2019. Read More: Mississippi police officers…
A grieving widow in Chicago is convinced the men who murdered her husband last summer confessed to their crime in one of their rap songs. Now she’s pleading with authorities to do something about it. According to CBS Chicago Asiah Carter had lost hope of ever finding out who killed her husband until videos started popping up…
An Amazon construction site in Connecticut has been temporarily shut down after a seventh rope that could be interpreted as a noose was found hanging over a beam, WTNH reported. Local authorities are now calling the series of events potential hate crimes. Credit: Flickr The latest incident was said to have occurred on Wednesday, May…
