Monday evening Mayor Todd Strange of Montgomery, Alabama said that city officials along with the Montgomery Police Department would begin their own investigation into the Feb. 25 officer-involved shooting death of Gregory Gunn. The officer was arrested and charged with murder last Wednesday. Gunn, an unarmed 59-year-old black man with …
Read More »Tough Questions About The Unexplained Police Killing Of Greg Gunn Go Unanswered, BLM Zeroes In While Community Demands Accountability
The officially-released facts in the killing of Greg Gunn last Thursday morning in Montgomery, Alabama are few and sometimes contradictory. One certainty is that no answer has been given as to what led at least one police officer to shoot this unarmed 59-year-old black resident of the Mobile Heights neighborhood five …
Read More »Racist vandalism of Harvard Law School portraits remains unsolved, case is shut
Strips of black tape were found across the faces of black faculty members in photos outside of Wasserstein lecture hall in November 2015. Investigators moved in on the case, which was highly publicized on Twitter, as a probable hate crime. The Boston Globe reports that officials have found no leads in …
Read More »Suffolk County alleged of widespread corruption after arrest of police chief and hate crimes trial for sergeant
In mid-December the FBI arrested former police chief James Burke of Suffolk County, NY shortly after his resignation. He is being held without bond while his abuses of power are investigated; they range from civil rights violations for torturing a prisoner to conspiracy charges. Before Burke is tried, retired sergeant Scott …
Read More »An 18 year-old who faced jail time for “crying wolf” about a rape is vindicated as serial rapist is caught
Read the in depth story of an inexperienced investigator forcing a girl to recant her rape testimonial, publicly shaming her and then later finding how her story fit into the pattern of a serial home invasion rapist who saved crime scene evidence as souvenirs.
Read More »LA: Two mosques vandalized in Hawthorne area
Vandalism and the placement of a replica grenade are under investigation as possible hate crimes.
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