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Rankin County torture incident. On January 24, 2023, six white law enforcement officers, five from the Rankin County Sheriff's Office and one from the Richland Police Department, tortured two black men, Michael Jenkins and Eddie Parker, at a home in Braxton, Mississippi. Police were called to the home by a white neighbor who reported that ...
Channon Gail Christian, aged 21, and Hugh Christopher Newsom Jr., aged 23, were from Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. They were kidnapped on the evening of January 6, 2007, when Christian's vehicle was carjacked. The couple were taken to a rental house. Both of them were raped, tortured, and murdered. [1] [2] [3] Four males and one female ...
George Perry Floyd Jr. (October 14, 1973 – May 25, 2020) was a black American man who was murdered by a white police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during an arrest made after a store clerk suspected Floyd may have used a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill, on May 25, 2020. [3] Derek Chauvin, one of four police officers who arrived on the ...
On July 25, 2020, Garrett Foster, a 28-year-old man, was murdered in Austin, Texas by 30-year old Daniel Perry. Perry had driven into a crowd of protesters during a Black Lives Matter protest following the May 2020 police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
March 18, 2024 at 1:25 PM. JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Two Black men who were tortured by six Mississippi law enforcement officers called on a federal judge Monday to impose the harshest possible ...
Ashlee Banks. December 28, 2023 at 1:12 PM. Take a look at some rulings in cases that stunned the Black community. This year, the U.S. Supreme Court rendered several decisions that will ...
The verdict on political outreach: 'It's not real' Back at New Era’s headquarters, a gutted, renovated, converted former weed shop, the walls are lined with photos from the group’s work in the ...
Now that 2023 is underway, here are some top political stories for you to watch. Supreme Court ruling on affirmative The post 5 Black political stories we’re watching for 2023 appeared first on ...