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Quintonio LeGrier called 911 three times on Dec. 26. His first two calls were ignored by dispatchers, even though he claimed his life was in danger. After the third , dispatchers sent Officer Robert Rialmo to the scene where he would shoot and kill LeGrier and a neighbor named Bettie Jones. The first two dispatchers […]

The Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office ruled the death of Tamla Horsford, mother of five, as “accidental” after she was found dead at an “adult slumber party” in November 2018.

Cook County prosecutors decided to not press charges against Officer Robert Rialmo for shooting Qunitonio LeGrier, 19, and his neighbor Bettie Smith, 55, the day after Christmas in 2015. 

By: Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The threat of violence by people inspired by foreign extremists invokes fear in a majority of young Americans across racial groups. But for young people of color, particularly African-Americans, that fear is matched or surpassed by worries about violence from white extremists. A new GenForward poll of […]

According to the New York Times, 19-year-old Quintonio LeGrier called 911 three times before the police shot him. There have been new findings from a December police shooting in Chicago which left LeGrier, a college student who was experiencing a mental episode, and his neighbor dead after being hung up on by an impatient dispatcher. When […]

The family of an elderly man who died of a heart attack after being ignored by firefighters in front of a Washington D.C. fire station is demanding that the department fire everyone involved. The family of Medric Mills called for the firing of firefighters, dispatchers and supervisors associated with the Jan. 25 incident. 

Jury selection for the Trayvon Martin trial begins today. George Zimmerman, who has admitted to fatally shooting Martin, is on trial for second-degree murder and is facing at least 25 years, should he be convicted: A key part of the prosecution’s case will likely be a recording to police dispatchers in which Zimmerman said that […]

12 former FAMU band members have been charged with manslaughter in the hazing death of Robert Champion. The previous charge was felony hazing, but it has since been upgraded to manslaughter. Champion was brutally beaten after a football game.

Two Jewish brothers – Avi and Eliyahu Werdesheim – stand accused of beating a black teenager while “patrolling” their Baltimore neighborhood will begin today. The story has drawn comparisons to the Trayvon Martin case.