By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Four African Americans can move ahead with a lawsuit seeking damages from a Louisiana district attorney's office over the racial composition of juries, a federal judge has ruled.
U.S. District Judge Dee...
By JAKE BLEIBERG, Associated Press
DALLAS — A white Dallas police officer was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison for killing her black neighbor in his apartment, which she said she mistook for her own unit one floor below.
Amber...
By JONATHAN MATTISE, Associated Press
NASHVILLE — One African American defendant was forced by a judge to represent himself at trial. Another was shackled in front of an all-white jury during a sentencing hearing. And a third black defendant facing...
The Shelby County Commission on Monday voted in favor of a joint resolution with the Memphis City Council to ask the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) to probe all sheriff- and police-involved shootings that result in serious injury or...
By ERRIN HAINES WHACK, AP National Writer
A rare scene in the American justice system unfolded Friday in a Chicago courthouse: A white officer stood before a mostly white jury and was convicted of killing a black teenager.
It was the second...