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Newly released body camera footage shows the fatal shooting of another black man at the hands of Chicago police,…
Chikesia Clemons, the black woman wrestled to the ground by three Saraland, Ala., police officers at a Waffle House…
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For at least the second time this week, a white police officer has been charged in the death of an unarmed black…
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Officer Michael Rosfeld, the East Pittsburgh police officer caught on camera shooting an unarmed 17-year-old in the…
After 35 years of evading justice, a white Georgia man will spend life in prison for the murder of a black man.