A video capturing the violent arrest of William McNeil Jr., a Black college student, during a February traffic stop in Florida has sparked an investigation and renewed calls for motorists …
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Federal Judge Sentences Ex-Officer in Breonna Taylor Raid, Rejects Trump-Era Leniency Request In a pointed rebuke to the Trump administration, a federal judge in Kentucky sentenced former Louisville police officer …
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LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Karlin Martinez, a Las Vegas-based content creator known online as ItsMzToonz, was arrested Wednesday night during a downtown protest. Martinez was live-streaming the event on TikTok …
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LOS ANGELES — A 37-year-old American citizen, Job Garcia, was tackled, handcuffed, and detained by federal agents after filming a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) raid outside a Home Depot …
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Mehdi Mahmoudian, an Iranian political activist, has begun serving an eight-month prison sentence, according to his lawyer, Mostafa Nili. The sentence stems from Mahmoudian’s social media posts about the presence …
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Security forces in the Islamic Republic have arrested 30-year-old civil and environmental activist, Fardin Mahmoudi, in Piranshahr. His detention marks the third recent arrest in the city. Mahmoudi was taken …
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Former police officer Adam Coy was convicted of murder on Monday for the 2020 fatal shooting of Andre Hill, a 47-year-old unarmed Black man. Hill was shot …