Arrests
State Supreme Court denies new trial for Mumia Abu-Jamal
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court in September 2024 denied Mumia Abu-Jamal’s sixth petition to reverse his 1982 conviction for the alleged murder of a Philadelphia police officer after a judge ordered the District Attorney’s office to release all files related to Mumia’s arrest and conviction. A request to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court for permission to appeal…
Read MoreTrump was shot and wounded during a campaign rally
Former President Donald Trump was shot and wounded this evening during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. One spectator was killed and another was wounded. The gunman is dead. His name is not yet known. Trump appeared to have been shot on the outer edge of his right ear after he had spoken for several…
Read MoreIllinois again leads the nation in exonerations
For the fifth consecutive year, Illinois led the nation in exonerations in 2022 among 26 states and the District of Columbia and in cases prosecuted in federal courts, according to the National Registry of Exonerations. The total number of exonerations during the year was 228, with Illinois leading the nation with 126 of those studied,…
Read MoreBlack police commissioner of Suffolk County solves 13-year-old cold case murders of sex workers
The arrest of Rex Heuermann, an architect, who has been charged with the murders of three women and possibly a fourth, is being credited to a new police chief who made finding the killer in a long-closed case a priority. Rodney Harrison, the new police commissioner of Suffolk County and the former chief of detective…
Read MoreBlack student arrests at Harvard are at a three-year high
After the U.S. Supreme Court ruling outlawing affirmative action, Harvard University police will have fewer opportunities to stop and arrest Black students. Harvard is considered the citadel of higher education, but mirrors most of the nation’s cities where police arrest many more Blacks than Whites. That Harvard’s police department is headed by an African American…
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