The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from a Black Lives Matter organizer who was held liable by a lower court for a random protester’s attack on a police officer at a protest he organized. In 2016, civil rights activist Deray Mckesson was sued by an unnamed Baton Rouge police officer — "John Doe" — for injuries he sustained during a protest. Doe claimed that an unidentified third party threw a "rock-like" object during the protest and hit him, knocking his teeth out and leaving him...
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The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review an appeal by a Black Lives Matter activist, allowing the case against him to move forward in the lower courts.
Six former white Mississippi law enforcement officers were sentenced to decades in prison after pleading guilty to state charges related to the torture of two Black men.
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from Black Lives Matters organizer DeRay Mckesson, letting stand a lower court’s decision that some critics fear could wind up limiting the First Amendment rights of Americans to organize protests against the government and police. The upshot is that Mckesson’s case will return to a lower court for further review. There were no noted dissents but Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote separately and said that lower courts would be able to take into...
Independent presidential candidate Cornel West has announced that he has chosen Black Lives Matter co-founder Melina Abdullah as his running mate.
During Black Maternal Health Month, Black moms are sharing their childbirth stories and postpartum experiences with CafeMom.
A police officer has been charged in connection with the death of a pedestrian who was hit by a police car. Father-of-four Ian Hynes, 62, was on his way home after a night out with friends when he was struck by the marked police car on Boxing Day 2022. The accident happened at the Almond Link Road in Livingston. Police were called around 10.15pm and Mr Hynes was taken by ambulance to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, but was pronounced dead a short time later. A colleague, who worked with Mr...
Authorities say they found five-year-old Kinsleigh Welty looking malnourished and thin with sunken eyes and with feces on her feet. They took her to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead. The hospital she was taken to said she weighed more at two-and-a-half years old than at five. The girl's mother, 29-year-old Toni McClure and her live-in boyfriend, 27-year-old Ryan Smith, were both arrested, with McClure facing felony murder
Live stream of rare Mallorcan Black Vultures, with views of parent birds interacting with a newly hatched chick. On Tuesday 16 April the Mediterranean Wildlife Foundation (FVSM) connected the cameras trained on the clifftop nests in the Serra de Tramuntana to the web. The black vulture (Aegypius monachus) was close to extinction in the 1980s, […]
SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A man charged with rape allegedly tried to run from police during his arrest. According to the Scranton Police Department, on April 5 a child informed investigators that a man identified as Paul Rixford, 31, of Scranton, committed inappropriate sexual actions towards the victim. Police say Rixford was brought in []
The assistant principal at Walter G. Byers School, Oletha Cuevas, has been charged one count of misdemeanor child abuse and one count of communicating threats, according to a court record.