Police departments
Thalia Anthony, a Professor of Law at the University of Technology Sydney, explains how the Black Lives Matter protests in Australia have ignited discussions on racial injustice and the need for structural change. The protests are calling for charges against police officers responsible for deaths in custody, an end to
Police departments
In a series of high-profile raids, the Winnipeg police have arrested 11 individuals and charged them with a wide range of crimes related to organized crime, including murder, weapons, and drug trafficking. The investigation, which began after a fatal shooting at an Exchange District nightclub in 2019, has led to
Police officers
Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin and his wife Kellie May Chauvin have been charged with nine counts of tax fraud by the State of Minnesota. The charges stem from the couple's failure to file and pay taxes on various sources of income, including off-duty income, realtor earnings,
Murder
Gujarat High Court's direction to the Vadodara police to book six officers for murder in the custodial death case of 65-year-old migrant worker Babu Sheikh Nisar has rekindled hopes for justice in the family. The case dates back to December 2019 when Nisar, a resident of Telangana, was
Murder
The United States Department of Justice carried out its first federal execution in 17 years, putting to death Daniel Lewis Lee, a white supremacist who brutally murdered a family of three, including an eight-year-old girl, in May 1999. The execution, which was originally scheduled for Monday, was delayed due to
Murder
Attorney General William P. Barr has announced the execution of Daniel Lewis Lee, a convicted murderer and member of a white supremacist organization, through lethal injection at FCI Terre Haute. Lee was responsible for the brutal murder of a family of three, including an eight-year-old child, in 1999. After a
Murder
A lawyer for Minneapolis police officer Thomas Lane, one of the four officers charged in the death of George Floyd, has filed a motion to dismiss his client's case, arguing that there is no probable cause to charge Lane based on the evidence. Lane's lawyer, Earl
Murder
Attorney Earl Gray, representing Thomas Lane, one of the former officers involved in the killing of George Floyd, has filed a motion to dismiss charges against his client. The motion, filed on Wednesday, is based on transcripts of body-worn camera footage from the scene of Floyd's arrest. Gray
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The US Army has confirmed that human remains found in a shallow grave in Texas belong to Army Spc. Vanessa Guillen, a 20-year-old soldier who went missing in April. Guillen's family has learned from Army investigators that they believe her killer, Spc. Aaron David Robinson, became enraged when
Murder
The parents of three U.S. Army Special Forces members murdered at the King Faisal Air Base in Jordan in 2016 are calling on Congress to demand justice from the Jordanian government, specifically the extradition of the soldier who killed their sons and a convicted Jordanian terrorist tied to a
Murder
Kausalya, the wife of Shankar, who was brutally hacked to death in a honour killing case, has expressed her disappointment over the Madras high court's verdict setting aside the death sentence awarded to five convicts and acquitting her father Chinnasamy. Despite the setback, Kausalya remains resolute in her
Murder
A decade-old caste killing case has ended with a mixed verdict from the Madras High Court. On Monday, the court acquitted the first-accused, Chinnaswamy, and commuted the death sentences of five others to life imprisonment. The case revolves around the murder of a 19-year-old dalit youth, Shankar, in Udumalpet, Tamil
