A Black passenger who was shot in the head by members of the Capitol Police in Jackson, Mississippi, during a traffic stop has filed a federal lawsuit. The excessive force complaint was filed in the U.S. Southern District of Mississippi on Dec. 20. According to the lawsuit, Sherita Harris was shot in the head on...
Former U.S. Rep. George Santos shared a profanity-laced video on X that demanded New York City Mayor Eric Adams resign. Santos was upset because his car was vandalized the day after Christmas. The disgraced New York Republican politician was elected to Congress last year but disgraced after allegations surfaced that he fabricated much of his...
The governing board of a small town in the Mississippi Delta has voted to reinstate a police officer who was suspended after he shot an 11-year-old Black boy who had called police to his home earlier this year to help resolve a domestic dispute involving his mother. During a special session, the city of Indianola Board...
An Oklahoma man has been exonerated of a murder he did not commit after serving almost 50 years in prison. He made history, according to the National Registry of Exonerations, by having the longest-served wrongful sentence in the United States. On Tuesday, Dec. 19, Judge Amy Palumbo of Oklahoma County District Court declared Glynn Simmons...
