After Tyre Nichols’ death, other families who suffered from past police violence in Memphis are speaking up too—-and some are calling for the new district attorney to reopen their cases to get justice. My latest: huffpost.com/entry/tyre-nic…

Tyre was 29 when Memphis police tragically murdered him. I turned 29 yesterday. In this last year, our community in Memphis has fought for just laws and for justice to prevail for his family. The terror of police violence must end. Phillip Jackson huffpost.com/entry/tyre-nic…

BREAKING: A state-commissioned independent audit of nearly 90 police-custody deaths spanning 2003 to 2019 found three dozen cases that should have been classified as homicides but were not. The report includes high-profile cases such as Anton Black and Tyrone West.

Among the cases that review says should have been classified as a homicide: Tyrone West and Anton Black

The U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division Dismisses Biden-Era Police Investigations and Proposed Police Consent Decrees in Louisville and Minneapolis 🔗: justice.gov/opa/pr/us-depa…

Today, the Department of Justice’s DOJ Civil Rights Division Division is beginning the process of dismissing lawsuits against the Louisville, Kentucky and Minneapolis, Minnesota police departments. Read more 👇

Former Philadelphia Police Officer Mark Dial was convicted of voluntary manslaughter for shooting Eddie Irizarry to death, but he was acquitted of the more serious charge of third-degree murder. inquirer.com/crime/mark-dia…

New Orleans jail has 'significant flooding' and 'severe plumbing failures,' sheriff says nola.com/news/crime_pol…

Talked to Wes Moore in SC, asked about the local legislator who protested his veto of a reparations study bill. Moore: "We have got to stop being the party of bureaucracy and multi-year studies on things that we know the answers to." semafor.com/article/06/02/…

Gov. Wes Moore spoke at a backyard meet-and-greet on Saturday, hosted by former advisers to Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden at a private residence and attended by about 70 Democratic officials, operatives and business leaders. This was among several events Moore headlined

On this day in 1944, George Stinney Jr., a 90-pound, 14-year-old boy, was executed in the electric chair in Columbia, South Carolina. He remains the youngest person executed in the U.S. in the 20th century. calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…

NEW: CPD officers shot 12 people, killing 6, during the first 5 months of 2025, the same number of people officers shot and killed in all of 2024, according to a WTTW - Chicago PBS analysis. news.wttw.com/2025/06/16/cpd…

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A family favor turned into a well of reflection for Ariel J. Cobbert. While digitizing the contents of a cardboard memory box at her aunt’s home in south Mississippi, she fell into an archive that speaks to a need to preserve our stories with care. mlk50.co/3HRztDS

The attorney for the family of an Aliceville teen fatally shot by Homewood police said Jabari Peoples was shot once in the back. Read more: al.com/news/2025/06/a…

#OnThisDay 100 years ago, Medgar Wiley Evers was born in Decatur, Mississippi. A World War II veteran and the first field secretary for the NAACP in Mississippi, Evers fought fearlessly to dismantle segregation and expand voting rights for Black Americans.

At the news conference with attorney Ben Crump/family of Jabari Peoples: “That’s what we’re here to do, to make sure Jabari Peoples, that he’s not swept under the rug.” - Crump. Calls for transparency from all: “That’s all this family wants... just release the video.” ABC 33/40 News

Jabari People’s mother and father addressing the media: Frank Peoples noting: “Jabari was one of the brightest kids one of the lovingest kids… we’re going to fight for him.” ABC 33/40 News

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Former Philadelphia Police Officer Mark Dial sentenced - and immediately paroled - for killing Eddie Irizarry inquirer.com/crime/mark-dia…