Jason Van Dyke's lawyer entered a not-guilty plea Tuesday before a Cook County trial judge.
Arguing that Quintonio LeGrier, 19, was unarmed when Chicago police shot and killed him over the weekend, his father on Monday filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the city, reports DNAinfo Chicago.
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – Samaria Rice says she wants the gazebo where police shot her son last November to be torn down. “It needs to be torn down. It needs to be torn down. It’s a bad thing,” said Rice. “I’m hoping the city will allow me to tear it down and redo the park area.” […]
Two individuals, identified as a 19-year-old college student and a 55-year-old-woman, were fatally shot by Chicago police as officers were responding to a domestic dispute early Saturday morning.
Civil rights leaders, community leaders and social media users expressed outrage Monday after a grand jury failed to bring charges against a Cleveland officer in the death of Tamir Rice
CLEVELAND– Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson said an administrative review is next in the Tamir Rice case. The mayor and Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams spoke out following the grand jury’s decision not to charge the officers in the Tamir Rice case. Chief Williams said both Officer Timothy Loehmann and Officer Frank Garmback will remain on […]
CLEVELAND – The family of Tamir Rice released the following statement about today’s announcement that a grand jury has declined to press charges against the officers involved in the fatal shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice by police. Today, more than a year after Cleveland police shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice, a grand jury voted […]
Hillary Clinton's social media campaign to reach Hispanic voters backfired and the hashtag #NotMyAbuela, as in not my grandmother, was born.
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai claims that Zimbabwe’s aging president Robert Mugabe has been replaced by his wife Grace in a "palace coup," reports the Mail & Guardian.
Thanks to a question about bullying, Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton on Tuesday was able to respond to indirectly to Republican rival Donald Trump's latest crude comments directed at her.
Lakeisha Holloway is accused of driving her car into a bustling Las Vegas commercial strip, killing one person and injuring dozens.
Ethan Couch, the teenager who avoided jail time after killing four people in a DUI crash due to his defense team's "affluenza" argument -- that stated the rich kid's parents were to blame for spoiling him -- is wanted by the police for violating his probation.