Amber Guyger, the police officer who killed Botham Jean in his own home, will have her appeal heard next week. According to CBS in Dallas, Guyger’s appeal argues she killed Jean by misake and that her conviction should not have been murder, but criminally negligent homicide. If her appeal goes through, the sentence for criminally
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In the year since Breonna Taylor was killed by Louisville, Ky., police, global protests rose calling for justice for her death. But the city’s Speed Art Museum curator Allison Glenn decided that there could be a way to make meaning and even beauty from the sadness of Taylor’s killing of Breyonna Taylor. Glenn has curated
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,
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
Retired police officer Barry Brodd, who testified as an expert witness on behalf of Derek Chauvin, claims a severed pig head was found at a home where he once lived. On April 17, according to a police statement, it was found outside of Santa Rosa, California, the home where Brodd once lived. Blood from the