Michael Slager, the former South Carolina police officer who shot and killed Walter Scott in 2015, filed an appeal for his 20-year sentence to be vacated. A judge has denied the appeal. Slager pleaded guilty to a civil rights charge in 2017 after shooting Scott five times in the back during a traffic stop. However,
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Former first lady Michelle Obama and former President George W. Bush have developed a close-knit friendship in the last few years that has gotten mixed reactions. And former President Bush thinks those viral reactions are a bit of a problem, he told CBS Sunday Morning in an interview on Sunday (April 18). “It shocked me,”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that her colleague, California Rep. Maxine Waters, should not apologize for her comments prior to the closing arguments in the Derek Chauvin trial. Pelosi also doesn’t believe that her words would not incite any violence. “Maxine talked about confrontation in the manner of the civil rights movement,” Pelosi said, according
A Colorado judge is resigning after she was censured by the state’s Supreme Court for using racist language with a coworker. Arapahoe County District Court Judge Natalie T. Chase was accused of using the N-word multiple times with a coworker and was racially insensitive on numerous occasions, court documents for discipline and censure revealed. The
Written by Madison J. Gray Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer whose fateful encounter on May 25, 2020 with George Floyd resulted in his death, was convicted on all counts of murder and manslaughter Tuesday (April 20) after a two-week trial and a year of intense demonstrations that placed focus on race, policing and a nation