Crime
Sentencing has finally been revealed for Jussie Smollett's guilty verdict in his infamous hate crime hoax case: 150 days in jail, 30 months of probation and $120,000 in restitution for the overtime spent investigating the case by Chicago police officers.
15-year-old Martell Williams said police in Waukegan, Illinois, arrested him at school and coerced him into a false confession for attempted murder. He also said a cop offered him McDonald's in exchange for his confession.
Black Trans Woman Awarded $1.5 Million After Spending 6 Months In Jail On Trumped-Up Cocaine Charges
In October 2015, Black transgender woman Ju’Zema Goldring was arrested for jaywalking by Atlanta cops who also falsified cocaine charges against her by cutting up a stress ball and calling the insides cocaine even though they tested negative for it. Goldring was awarded $1.5 million in her lawsuit against the city.
A Minnesota judge handed down an extra lenient prison sentence of just 24 months to former Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter for killing Daunte Wright after purportedly confusing a Taser for a gun in suburban Minneapolis last year.
The U.S. Secret Service announced Friday that an Arizona employee at Home Depot had been arrested for changing out almost $400k of the store’s cash with counterfeit bills. According to multiple sources, the employee’s name is Adrian Jean Pineda and was arrested at the Home Depot in Tempe, Arizona, on January 31. The scheme worked […]
Two home invaders got greedy in more ways than one during a recent burglary in Winchester, Virginia after reports say the perps ordered a pizza to the residence before robbing it of money, jewelry and other valuables.
Fetty Wap can't win for losing. The "Trap Queen" rapper was arrested at Newark Airport on an outstanding warrant.
A video taken from a classroom inside Proviso West High School in Hillside, Illinois, that was released by authorities on Friday shows a Black school employee grabbing and throwing a non-Black student to the ground. The school employee was immediately arrested.
On Friday, Black teenage college student Alhaji M. Sow was shot and killed by police on the campus of his school, the Florida Institute of Technology. Melbourne police claim the 18-year-old was "wielding a knife in a threatening manner" and “assaulting students."
Reports claim that R&B singer Trey Songz may be the subject of a sexual assault investigation in Las Vegas.
The person shown on video speeding through a holiday parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, and mowing down multiple people, killing at least five and injuring up to dozens of others, has reportedly been identified as a Black man named Darrell E. Brooks Jr.
According to WREG, as of Nov. 8, there have been 268 homicides in Memphis which is outpacing the cities record-breaking murder count from 2020
