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The #JusticeForElijah hashtag trended on Twitter this week after 17-year-old Elijah Al-Amin was fatally stabbed by 27-year-old Michael Paul Adams for listening to rap music Adams found “threatening.” Al-Amin was at a gas station Thursday morning when Adams approached the teen from behind and stabbed him with a pocket knife….
Since 2014, at least 110 transgender women have been killed, according to the Human Rights Campaign – but only 42 percent of those murder investigations actually arrested someone. And yet, about 61 percent of murder cases across the general public results in an arrest, according to the FBI. The statistics only…
A Florida county sheriff announced that not all those seeking refuge during Hurricane Irma will be accepted in shelters. “If you go to a shelter for #Irma and you have a warrant, we’ll gladly escort you to the safe and secure shelter called the Polk County Jail,” Polk County Sheriff…
The Department of Justice has made good on its promise that grant money would be in jeopardy for so-called “sanctuary” cities and states. The threat comes around the same time a survey from the Wall Street Journal found that no members of Congress representing border territory support President Trump’s plan…
The same day that President Donald Trump signed three executive orders pertaining to crime reduction, Jeff Sessions kicked off his first day as U.S. attorney general by presenting the nation with some alternative facts. “We have a crime problem,” Sessions said. “I wish the rise we were seeing in crime…
In President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration and sanctuary cities, he calls for a weekly report on the crimes committed by immigrants in protected cities. However, data does not support his narrative that immigrants are more likely to commit crimes than native-born citizens. According to the order, “the [secretary…
Originally published Feb. 17, 2015 In an unprecedented move, FBI Director James Comey addressed a crowd at Georgetown University on the racial tensions and culture of racial profiling amongst the law-enforcement community. But that’s where Comey made his mistake: He never acknowledged racial profiling as a cultural issue. Instead of…
By Sheryl Estrada Daniel Holtzclaw, a former Oklahoma City police officer, wassentenced to 263 consecutive years in prison on Thursday for rape, sexual assault and other crimes against Black women. From December 2013 to June 2014,Holtzclaw preyed onBlack women hebelieved to have criminal histories. The women alsoall live in one…
By Chris Hoenig Newly released surveillance video, which had not been made public before, shows that police officers waited nearly four minutes to offer first aid to dying Cleveland 12-year-old Tamir Rice after one of them shot him. During that four-minute delay, officers tackled and handcuffed Rice’s sister, who ran…
By Chris Hoenig An NAACP chapter office in Colorado has been bombed in what authorities are investigating as a possible hate crime. The FBI has joined the investigation and is looking for a balding white man, about 40 years old, who fled the scene. The homemade bomb was detonated outside…
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