Crime

Ex-Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke is set to be released from prison after having served less than half of the 81-month sentence he got three years ago after he was found guilty of murdering Laquan McDonald by shooting the teenager 16 times.

The continued effort to keep Acoli behind bars seems directly tied to the highly political nature of Shakur's case and remaining outside of the reach of U.S. authorities.  

The new federal indictment accusing Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby of lying on a COVID-19 loan application comes after a failed investigation partially rooted in racism that is desperate to make any charges stick, her defense attorney said.

31st District Judge Alexis G. Krot of Michigan berated 72-year-old Burhan Chowdhury, who suffers from cancer, and said she wanted to jail him because he was too weak to take care of the lawn in front of his home.

Donald Trump and the Trump Organization are big mad that New York Attorney General Letitia James is moving forward with her civil investigation. Eric Trump and attorney Alina Habba took to right-wing media to air their grievances.

Kenosha Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger proposed a privileged plea agreement that would dismiss felony counts against Dominick Black, who was charged for buying the rifle Kyle Rittenhouse used to kill two people.

46-year-old James R. Williams was shot and killed by a Canton, Ohio, police officer, who, according to James' wife, Marquetta Williams, shot him without warning as he was shooting an AR-15 rifle that belongs to his wife in the air.

This week's Fayetteville, North Carolina road rage killing of Stephen Addison, a Black man, could result in hate crime charges against suspected white supremacist Roger Dale Nobles, who has in the past been accused of using racial slurs.

Ahamuad Arbery's parents are expected to attend Friday's scheduled prison sentencing for their son's three convicted murderers, Greg and Travis McMichaels and William "Roddie" Bryan.

Bingham County Sheriff Craig Rowland, who was arrested for menacing and apparently racially profiling pre-teens and teenagers in a church group in Iowa who he thought could be "drunk Indians," was not fired and kept his job while resisting calls to resign.

James McLeod, aka Roman McClay - the gunman behind the deadly mass shooting in and around Denver - has been described on social media as a "white supremacist" who also harbored hatred toward women. And the folks making these claims came with receipts.

Patricia Cornwall, the Karen shown on a viral video attacking another passenger on a Delta flight, compared herself to Rosa Parks after being told to take a seat, according to a federal complaint.