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Four years after the state of Arkansas executed Ledell Lee for the 1993 murder of Debra Reese, testing results were recently released showing that the DNA of an “unknown male” was found on the wooden club and bloody shirt found at the scene, KATV reports. The club was beleived to have been the murder weapon used to […]
Boxer Félix Verdejo surrendered to federal authorities in his native Puerto Rico on Sunday, where he’s expected to be charged with the murder of his 27-year-old pregnant girlfriend, the New York Times reports. According to a federal complaint, Verdejo injected his girlfriend, Keishla Rodríguez Ortiz, with an unidentified substance before tying her body to a […]
The death of Marvin Scott III at a Texas detention facility has been ruled a homicide. Collin County chief medical examiner Dr. William Rohr shared his findings Wednesday, more than a month after Scott died while in custody at the Collin County Jail. The Dallas Morning News reports Allen police officers arrested the 26-year-old Black man […]
For the fifth time, the Breakfast Club team welcomed Dr. Umar Johnson—who’s been widely criticized for telling people to skip out on the COVID-19 vaccine, as well as his massively detrimental pushing of homophobic messages—to the show. About 40 minutes into Monday’s appearance, the topic of the recent police killing of 16-year-old Black girl Ma’Khia […]
A grand jury has indicted another man in connection to the death of Texas rapper Mo3. According to the Dallas Morning News, 28-year-old Devin Maurice Brown is facing federal murder charges for his role in the fatal shooting of Mo3 late last year. The rapper, born Melvin Noble, was driving on I-35 in Dallas on Nov. 11 when a masked gunman approached his […]
Chicago police say they have arrested a man in connection to the murder of Jaslyn Adams, a seven-year-old girl who was fatally shot while waiting in line at a McDonald’s drive-thru. According to the Sun-Times, officers arrested 18-year-old Marion Lewis on Thursday following a vehicle pursuit on Eisenhower Expressway. The Chicago Police Department announced Lewis’ charges during a […]
George Floyd’s convicted murderer will receive his sentencing in less than two months. According to CNN, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is scheduled to be sentenced on June 16, a little over one year after Floyd was killed while in police custody. Chauvin was recorded kneeling on the 46-year-old Black mans’ neck during an attempted arrest […]
Chilling footage of Dave Grossman, an ex-Army Ranger who became a notorious police trainer, has resurfaced amid constant and ongoing examples of police brutality nationwide. For some background, Grossman was among the law enforcement figures featured in a 2018 film from director Craig Atkinson titled Do Not Resist. “It’s my hope that both community members […]
Nancy Pelosi is facing criticism for her tone-deaf reaction to Derek Chauvin’s guilty verdict. The Speaker of the House gave a press conference Tuesday, shortly after Chauvin was convicted of second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd. Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer, was filmed kneeling on Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes during an […]
On Tuesday, a verdict was reached in the murder trial of Derek Chauvin, the now-former Minneapolis cop who was filmed fatally holding his knee to George Floyd’s neck for nine minutes and 29 seconds on May 25, 2020. Derek Chauvin was found guilty on all three counts—second degree murder, third degree murder, and second degree manslaughter. […]
