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Calls for Release of Body-Cam Footage After Police in Georgia Shoot At Car of Teens, Younger Children For Alleged Traffic Violation

It’s apparently open season on Black people in America, and that includes our children. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) says it is now investigating a shooting incident in which officers from the Waycross Police Department in Ware County, Georgia fired multiple times at a vehicle of Black children. According to the GBI report, the…

By

Ishena Robinson

Published

August 9, 2020
News

4-Year-Old Becomes 5th Family Member to Fall Victim to Gun Violence After Accidentally Shooting Himself

Na’vaun Jackson is a miracle. “He’s breathing on his own, he’s doing something different every day,” his mother, Brijjanna Price, said at a press conference on Thursday. Her relief is palpable. “Everything the doctors are saying, God says different.” According to CNN, the inquisitive four-year-old found a gun under a pillow on March 27 and…

By

Jay Connor

Published

April 15, 2019
Crime, Criminal Justice, News

Suspected Driver Confesses in Jazmine Barnes Case, Suspected Shooter Denies Involvement

The details of seven-year-old Jazmine Barnes’ death remain murky as suspected shooter Larry Woodruffe, 24, denies involvement in the crime, claiming Eric Black Jr. was the shooter in the fatal attack. Black, 20, previously confessed to driving the car from which Woodruffe allegedly shot and killed Jazmine during the Dec. 30 assault. The young girl…

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Natalie Degraffinried

Published

January 11, 2019
Crime, Criminal Justice, News

Second Suspect Charged With Capital Murder for Death of Jazmine Barnes

Suspect Larry Woodruffe has been charged with capital murder for the death of 7-year-old Jazmine Barnes. Per NPR, police believe Woodruffe, 24, was the person who fired on the car Jazmine Barnes and her family were in as they made their way out of a parking lot on Dec. 30. Jazmine’s mother, LaPorsha Washington, was…

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Natalie Degraffinried

Published

January 9, 2019
Crime, Criminal Justice, News

Suspect Charged, Held Without Bail for Murder of 7-Year-Old Jazmine Barnes

Court proceedings have begun for Eric Black Jr., one of the men implicated in the shooting death of 7-year-old Jazmine Barnes. On Monday, Black was charged with capital murder and will be held without bail after reportedly confessing involvement in the crime, which Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez has called a case of “mistaken identity,”…

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Natalie Degraffinried

Published

January 8, 2019
News, Race Matters

Could Police Have Prevented 7-Year-Old Jazmine Barnes’ Death?

It’s true of every case of white supremacist violence, every senseless and unprovoked shooting that causes the death of innocent people, and it may very well be the case here: We could have prevented this. Prominent civil rights attorney Lee Merritt, who has in the past represented slain innocents Jemel Roberson and Botham Jean, posted…

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Natalie Degraffinried

Published

January 3, 2019
News

7-Year-Old Killed in Senseless Shooting Attack on Black Family

Police have begun a manhunt for the gunman responsible for shooting and killing 7-year-old Jazmine Barnes in an apparently unprovoked attack on a black family. According to KTRK, the family was exiting a Houston Walmart parking lot in a car driven by Barnes’ mother, LaPorsha Washington, 30, when a suspect pulled up beside them in…

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Natalie Degraffinried

Published

December 31, 2018
Questions Remain in Fatal Shooting of 11-Year-Old Tenn. Schoolgirl

There are still many questions left unanswered after an 11-year-old girl was fatally shot after returning home from her first day of the new school year, News Channel 5 reports. According to the Hendersonville, Tenn., Police Department, the shooting happened around 3:20 p.m. Monday at 11-year-old Timea Batts’ home. Initially, officers were told that the girl…

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Breanna Edwards

Published

August 9, 2016