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Newly Released Video Footage Shows Black Veteran Died After Police Hooded Him and Left Him in a Florida Jail Cell
The injustices that led to the creation of the Black Lives Matter movement and this year drove hundreds of people to march in pain and protest against the police’s inhumane treatment of Black Americans, are littered across the this country. The latest development in the story of the December 2018 death of U.S. Army veteran…
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Five NC Officers Resign After Leaving Man Who Overdosed Unattended While He Suffered Seizure
Police say they saw Harold Easter ingest the cocaine as they stood outside his SUV on January 23. Easter, 41, had just been pulled over in Charlotte, N.C. after officers saw what appeared to be a drug deal. “Don’t eat it! He’s eating it,” one Charlotte-Mecklenberg cops says as he reaches inside the car window…
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Ohio Teen Supposedly Shot Himself in Police Custody While His Hands Were Handcuffed Behind His Back; Now His Family Is Demanding Answers
The brother of an Akron, Ohio, teen who died in police custody is searching for the truth after learning that the young boy somehow shot himself in the head while seated in the back of a police car with his hands handcuffed behind his back. Greg Wiley, 29, says that he is still left numb…
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Estate of Inmate Who Died of Dehydration in Milwaukee Jail Files Civil Rights Lawsuit Against County, Sheriff David Clarke
The family of Terrill Thomas, an inmate who died of dehydration while in custody at the Milwaukee County Jail in 2016, has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit naming the county, Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. and more than 20 others as defendants in the case. As the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel notes, the lawsuit comes…
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Okla. Sheriff, 5 Other Jail Officials Charged With 2nd-Degree Manslaughter in Death of Inmate Who Was Left in Restraint Chair for 48 Hours
Garfield County, Okla., Sheriff Jerry Niles and five other jail officials are facing second-degree manslaughter charges after being accused of being responsible for the death last year of an inmate because of negligence. Oklahoma’s multicounty grand jury charged in the indictments that Niles, 59, and the others were responsible for Anthony Huff’s death by allowing…
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NYC to Pay $5,750,000 Over Death of Mentally Ill Inmate
The city of New York has agreed to pay $5.75 million to the family of a mentally ill inmate who was found dead while in custody at the Rikers Island jail complex, the New York Times reports. According to the Times, the settlement in the death of Bradley Ballard is reportedly the largest the city has…
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Report: Okla. Inmate Died After Being Strangled by Jailers
A Caddo County, Okla., jail inmate died after being strangled when jailers put him in a neck hold, The Frontier reports. Darius Randell Robinson, 41, died April 5, just a few days after being arrested on warrants for unpaid child support, the site notes. Jailers initially said that Robinson had tried to escape his cell…