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George Zimmerman appeared before a Seminole County, FL judge today, where his arraingment was set for May 29th. Are you happy that Zimmerman has been arrested and charged? Do you think he will receive a fair trial?

The City of Philadelphia is ending a major contract it had with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, otherwise known as ICE which allowed ICE to collect data from an arrest database kept by local law enforcement. Both protestors and city officials agree that ICE has been abusing the data from law enforcement officials to target suspected […]

George Zimmerman, the 34 year old man acquitted of murdering Trayvon Martin, was summoned for criminal charges of stalking in the state of Florida, a press release by Seminole County Sheriff’s Office on May 7th stated. Zimmerman is accused of both threatening and harassing Dennis Warren, a private investigator hired by a production company to […]

In late January, three black female students at SUNY Albany claimed that they were targeted by as many as a dozen white students in a hate crime that turned physical on a CTDA bus. 

The Chicago Police Officer who killed 17-year-old Laquan McDonald plead not guilty in court on Tuesday.

From the New York Times: A New York City police officer was arraigned on Wednesday in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn on several felony charges, including second-degree manslaughter, in the fatal shooting of an unarmed man in an East New York housing project last November. The officer, Peter Liang, appeared in a suit and tie […]

The Compton branch of the NAACP called for the Sheriff’s Department to prioritize an investigation into a violent arrest that left a 29-year-old mentally ill man with “massive permanent injuries.” Barry Montgomery, who suffers from paranoia schizophrenia, was handcuffed and brutally beaten by a group of 20 deputies as he played basketball at a park […]

  The family of a convicted felon whose mugshot garnered lots of unexpected attention after being posted on a California police department’s Facebook page is not thrilled about how “fine” the world thinks he is. Jeremy Meeks’ friends and family were “very upset” about the attention he’s been getting over his infamous mugshot. 

A pregnant South Carolina woman who drove a minivan carrying her three small children into the Atlantic ocean has had has had charges against her reduced. Ebony Wilkerson, 32, was charged on three counts of attempted first-degree murder and child abuse following the March 4 incident. 

Ex NFL star Darren Sharper is set to be arraigned in Los Angeles on rape and drug charges. The charges come as part of an investigation into allegations that he sexually assaulted and drugged at least seven women. 

  George Zimmerman’s girlfriend Samantha Scheibe says she wants a no-contact provision against the former neighborhood watch captain lifted so the couple can “talk and be together.” Scheibe requested that a judge lift the order that blocks her from seeing Zimmerman, and also that the charges filed against him be dropped.

Two white men were arraigned on charges in connection with the beating death of 16-year-old Dione Payne of Dayton, Ohio. Payne had been staying at the home of Michael A Geldrich, who is accused of beating the teen the death while robbing him for drugs and money.