2015/05/18 –Ā Nine months after police in riot gear dispelled racially charged protests, President Barack Obama is prohibiting the federal government from providing some military-style equipment to local departments and putting stricter controls on other weapons and gear distributed to law …..
2015/05/18 –Ā WASHINGTON ā President Obama has banned the sale of some kinds of military equipment to local law enforcement agencies, following widespread criticism of a paramilitary-like response to riots in a St. Louis suburb last August. In doing so, Obama …..
2015/05/18 –Ā The number of federal criminal charges has fallen over the past decade nationally, but the rate of decline in south Mississippi is more than twice that of the nation. According to Justice Department reports, the Southern District of Mississippi …..
2015/5/15-Before Ferguson, Baltimore, Tamir Rice or Eric Garner, there was 13-year-old Nicholas Heyward Jr. In 1994, he was playing in the stairwell of the Gowanus Housing Project, where he lived in Brooklyn, when a police officer shot and killed him. …..
2015/5/15-Baltimore correctional officers Tamika Cobb and Kendra Richard have beenĀ charged with theft and burglaryĀ after being caught on camera leaving a closed 7-11 with stolen goods. They have been suspended without pay. The burglary took place on April 25, just weeks …..