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A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputy knelt on an inmate’s head for three minutes in March of 2021, and department officials reportedly covered the incident up, per the Los Angeles Times. Commander Allen Castellano reportedly wrote in an internal force review that the department was worried about potential optics given the incident’s “nature and its similarities to widely […]
Derek Chauvin—the former Minneapolis police officer who has already been convicted of state murder and manslaughter charges in the killing of George Floyd—is expected to plead guilty to violating Floyd’s civil rights. A hearing has been scheduled for Wednesday for Chauvin to change his not-guilty plea, as revealed by the court’s electronic filing system, which usually […]
A lawsuit filed against the city of Columbus, Ohio for excessive police force in the summer of 2020 has settled with those injured for $5.75 million, ABC News reports. The decision came on Thursday, nearly a year and a half after the suit was filed in July of 2020 when “some plaintiffs were significantly injured” in the protests, […]
Iranian software programmers are facing backlash over a newly launched video game centered on the police-killing of George Floyd. According to The Sun, the game—titled Save the Freedom—was developed by the Basij Resistance Force, a volunteer organization operating under the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. Paris-based journalist Séamus Malekafzali said the game consists of 30 levels in which a player must overcome […]
ComplexCon returns to Long Beach Nov. 6 – 7 with hosts J. Balvin and Kristen Noel Crawley, performances by A$AP Rocky and Turnstile, and more shopping and drops. Secure your spot while tickets last! Buy tickets Disturbing bodycam footage has surfaced showing a group of Minneapolis police officers relishing in the opportunity to fire non-lethal […]
Derek Chauvin and three other former Minneapolis police officers pleaded not guilty Tuesday after being charged with violating George Floyd’s civil rights. Chauvin, Thomas Lane, J. Kueng and Tou Thao were indicted in May by a federal grand jury for allegedly depriving Floyd of his rights on May 25, 2020, while acting under government authority. Chauvin is currently serving a 22 1/2-year […]
Derek Chauvin’s first prison mugshots were released on Saturday, nearly one month after he was sentenced for the murder of George Floyd. The photos, published by TMZ, were reportedly taken on June 28 at Oak Park Heights correctional facility in Minnesota, which is located about 30 miles from where Floyd was killed. Chauvin was convicted of killing the 46-year-old Black […]
A former high school student is being charged with two counts of third-degree computer crimes after unlawfully accessing his school’s computer database, putting a quote from Adolf Hitler in the yearbook, and attributing it to George Floyd. According to the New York Post, 18-year-old Connecticut high school grad Hollister Tryon submitted the following quote: “It is a […]
Leneal Lamont Frazier, the uncle of the Minneapolis teen who filmed George Floyd’s murder at the hands of police, has died following a car crash involving a police squad car. WCCO reports that Minnesota State Patrol has launched an investigation into the crash, which left Darnella Frazier’s uncle dead, and one police officer in hospital. The […]
After a judge sentenced former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin on Friday to 22 and a half years in prison for the murder of George Floyd on Friday, people couldn’t help but feel like the punishment did not fit the crime. The former Minneapolis police officer was convicted of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter in […]
