"I just want people to at least step in our shoes and see how it affected our lives — not only my brother, but us as well," Shawntell Nile told me as she wore a locket with her brother's ashes. "It's an ongoing issue that needs to be addressed."
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"Hundreds were believed trapped under rubble, and the toll was expected to rise as rescue workers dug through the wreckage. Thousands of survivors were left homeless in the cold rain and snow."
My latest: On the high seas between Florida and Cuba, U.S. immigration policy a matter of life and death usatoday.com/story/news/nat via
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BREAKING: More than 2,300 people were killed in the powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake that rocked wide swaths of Turkey and Syria early Monday, as rescuers continue to search for survivors in the rubble.
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At least 226 convictions tied to former Chicago police Sgt. Ronald Watts and his team have been vacated – the largest series of exonerations in the city’s history.
No officer has faced charges in these cases.
Read 's report:
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Last May, President Biden signed an executive order promising a “National Law Enforcement Accountability Database,” there's still no sign of it.
It was supposed to launch by Jan 20, the same day five Memphis officers were charged in Tyre Nichols' death.
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The number of suspected ghost guns recovered by law enforcement and submitted to the bureau for tracing increased by more than 1,000% between 2017 and 2021. The number more than doubled from 2020 to 2021.
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"The report also documents a more than five-fold increase in the number of devices that convert a legal semi-automatic weapon into an illegal fully automatic one."
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"A civil rights lawsuit against Kyle Rittenhouse and the Wisconsin city and county of Kenosha will be allowed to move forward, a federal judge ruled Wednesday."
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"Harris called on Congress to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act as Nichols' mother wept and applauded. That bill failed to pass in the Senate in 2021."
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Amir Worship, 12, was sitting on his bed with his hands up when an Illinois police officer shot him with an AR-15-style rifle during a 2019 pre-dawn SWAT raid. Atttoneys announced a $12M settlement today, but the family wants the officer held accountable.
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Four of the five officers charged for in #TyreNichols death had prior reprimands or suspensions. Reviews of records found that the officers received little-to-no repercussions as they made forceful arrests with no documentation and sped to scenes.
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"Thousands of people, including Vice President Kamala Harris, are expected to attend the funeral of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols — a father, FedEx worker, and an avid skateboarder — who died after being beaten by 5 Memphis Police Department officers"
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Prison, jail staff rarely face legal consequences after sex abuse of inmates, DOJ report finds
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The world faces a significant risk of passing a crucial global warming threshold earlier than scientists had suggested, possibly as soon as 2050, a paper published Monday found.
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"The Memphis Fire Department has fired three employees for failing to provide Tyre Nichols an 'adequate patient assessment' when they were called to provide medical aid after he was beaten by police officers, the department said Monday."
"A sixth Memphis Police officer has been placed on leave in connection with the death of Tyre Nichols, the 29-year-old driver who died after a traffic stop."
"The frequency of fatal mass shootings has increased from 23 a year in 2010 to 27 a year through the end of 2022, based on five-year averages of data gathered by USA TODAY, The Associated Press and Northeastern University." w/
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"Friday, FBI Director Chris Wray called video of the encounter 'appalling.' Both Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland appealed for 'calm' in advance of any protests following the release of the video."
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"39 people have died in six mass shooting events in the first three weeks of 2023, including the Monterey Park and Half Moon Bay shootings." by and Janet Loehrke
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Former Memphis police officers arrested, face murder charges in Tyre Nichols' death
A new report aims to fill the gaps in federal crime data. Information from 35 big U.S. cities suggests most violent crime fell last year. But it's not the full picture. Read more here, and check out these awesome graphics from
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Valentino Alvero, 68, was "a loving father, a dedicated son, and brother, a grandfather who loved his three granddaughters fiercely, an uncle who loved his nieces and nephews like his own," his family said in a statement.
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"She spent so many years going to the dance studio in Monterey Park on weekends. It’s what she loved to do. But unfairly, Saturday was her last dance," the family of My Nhan, 65, said in a statement. w/
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The Georgia Bureau of Investigation on Thursday identified the person killed by law enforcement as 26-year-old Manuel Esteban Paez Teran.
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A federal class action lawsuit filed Thursday alleges the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services "willfully and wrongly" incarcerated hundreds of children in its care.
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"Illinois EMS workers accused of murder appear in court as Earl Moore's family files suit" story by and Zach Roth
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Law enforcement killed a man who shot a Georgia state trooper Wednesday as officers were attempting to clear protesters from the forest site of a controversial proposed public safety training facility near Atlanta.
Federal investigators said Wednesday a civil rights investigation has been opened into the death of a 29-year-old man who died three days after being stopped by Memphis police. story by and
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Minnesota Court of Appeals is asked to void verdict against ex-cop in George Floyd's murder (from )
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🚨 Big project alert! Airlines damage or mishandle around 1,000 mobility devices per month according to the DOT. This year, I'm working to track those incidents for /. We want to hear your story if it happens to you using this form:
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IMPACT: & condemn Arizona's "barbaric" practice of inducing the labor of pregnant prisoners, vowing to stop it – AND – pledges to introduce a bill protecting the autonomy of incarcerated medical patients.
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"A trio of gun owners and a firearms retailer in southeastern Illinois have filed the first two lawsuits in what’s expected to be a flurry of litigation against the state’s new law banning the sale and manufacture of assault weapons."
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A scary reality for those who fish in the Great Lakes region: 'Forever chemicals' in Great Lakes fish more risky than PFAS in drinking water, study says
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"Welcome signs, cheers and high fives welcomed students back Tuesday at Central Visual Arts and Performing Arts High School in St. Louis, nearly three months after a young gunman killed two people and injured seven others in a rampage inside the school."
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Memphis remembered Tyre Nichols, 29, who suffered fatal injuries during a traffic stop that prompted a use-of-force investigation of Memphis police officers, outside the Civil Rights Museum today, MLK Day. Family retained Ben Crump. reports:
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