US Attorney General Loretta Lynch (C) speaks during a press conference at the Department of Justice as Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta (L), head of the Civil Rights Division and US Attorney Zachary T Fardon (R) of the Northern District of IL looks on...
In the weeks since the November 24 release of the video of Chicago Police Department (CPD) officer Jason Van Dyke shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald 16 times, Chicagoans have protested the city’s leadership and its presumed cover up of McDonald’s death.
Despite Emanuel issuing an apology, several prominent Chicago pastors have rejected Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s gesture of forgiveness and are demanding that his administration release yet another dash cam recording in which a white police officer fatally shot seventeen-year-old...
Mo Shaoping, Pu’s defense lawyer, told Reuters that Pu had admitted that he wrote the seven microblog posts, apologized if he “caused injury to other people” with the posts, and declared that he had “no intention to incite ethnic hatred or pick quarrels...
USA authorities will look at the department’s use of force, including deadly force, among other issues, she said at a news briefing to announce the civil probe.
The woman and the other man arrested are suspected of supplying weapons to Amedy Coulibaly, who killed a policewoman and then four other people at a kosher store in January, the sources said.
Chinese authorities tried one of the country’s most prominent human rights lawyers behind closed doors on Monday morning, as police roughed up protesters, journalists and diplomats who gathered outside of a Beijing courthouse hoping to observe the proceedings.
Williams dismissed the eight women and four men on the panel, telling them “thank you for your diligence”. They also have suggested that he might have deliberately injured himself. There is as of yet no news on a retrial.
Since the announcement of the investigation, Emanuel has been open to the decision, despite the calls for him to resign and the allegations he was involved in the cover-up.
City officials have released a number of videos revealing authorities encounters with the public, since dashcam footage revealing a white Chicago police officer shooting a black teenager 16 times was made public. An autopsy report listed the cause of death as a severe reaction to...