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Louisiana Family Wants Answers After Father Dies in Police Custody
Tommie McGlothen’s family were suspicious when Shreveport, La., police told them that he had died of a heart attack while in police custody. Cellphone video released earlier this week proved that, unfortunately, their suspicions were right. KSLA reports that cellphone video shows the 44- year- old McGlothen being beaten and tased by four Shreveport police…
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2 Cops Kill 21-Year-Old Man in Brooklyn, NY
Another young person of color is dead after being shot by two New York City police officers Saturday. The New York Daily News reports that two police officers shot 21-year-old Erickson Gomez Brito after he allegedly attacked them with one of their own collapsible batons in a Brooklyn, N.Y., housing project. The News reports that Officers Jennifer…
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#WalterScott: Judge Denies Defense Motion to Suppress Video of Shooting
The judge in the murder trial of a white former North Charleston, S.C., police officer charged with shooting and killing an unarmed black motorist denied two defense motions Friday concerning cellphone video of the shooting. Michael Slager, 34, is charged with the April 2015 shooting death of Walter Scott, 50, who was running from a…
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#WalterScott: Michael Slager's Trial for Scott’s Murder Begins in Charleston, SC
The trial for a white former North Charleston, S.C., police officer charged with the murder of an unarmed black motorist began in a Charleston courtroom Thursday. Michael Slager, 34, is charged with the April 2015 murder of Walter Scott, 50. Slager shot Scott in the back five times as Scott ran from a traffic stop…