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Several hundred people gathered in Charlotte after a policeman shot a black man. Protesters threw bottles stones at the security forces. Ten policemen were injured and several vehicles damaged, police said. In a statement, the police said that the police officer who shot Keith Lamont Scott, 43, is also Black and he opened fire because […]
A white police officer in the US state of Maryland fatally shoot an unarmed 19-year-old African American man as he allegedly tried to purchase narcotic medicine with a fake prescription. Baltimore County police published surveillance footage on Friday of Keith McLeod being shot dead on Wednesday. The video showed Officer David Earomirski shooting McLeod three […]
Jerry Hartfield, 59, has been jailed for over 35 years despite his original murder conviction being thrown out from being found guilty, defense attorney Jay Wooten told jurors on Wednesday, the Associated Press reported. Hartfield faces life in prison if convicted of capital murder the killing of 55-year-old Eunice Lowe in September 1976 in Bay […]
A large number of Americans have again taken to the streets of Baltimore, Maryland, to protest the death of a 25-year-old unarmed African American man at the hands of white police officers. On Thursday night, the protesters poured into the streets to demand justice for the murder of Freddie Gray, who died of a spinal […]
A new video shows police officers in the United States have brutally shot dead a mentally ill African-American man in front of his mother. Jason Harrison, 39, was killed by police in Dallas in June 2014, but the body-camera video of the shooting incident was released on Monday. Officers were present at the scene following […]
