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America’s police departments need to be overhauled to halt the unchecked power of officers to shoot and kill Blacks.

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Lawsuits filed by Baltimore police officers against Baltimore State Attorney Marilyn Mosby must be dismissed, according to the law. The United States Supreme Court ruled that prosecutors acting within the scope of their duties in pursuing criminal prosecution are immune from civil suits. The role of a prosecutor in a criminal case is to seek justice and […]

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This system of policing must change, but it will never change if officers are not held accountable for their unlawful and unreasonable actions.

Ben Crump, the civil rights attorney, called an ex-Oklahoma City officer’s sentencing a rare opportunity to get full justice for his clients, who are poor, Black, and female, he said during an exclusive interview with NewsOne.

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In an op-ed for NewsOne, Benjamin L. Crump, president of the National Bar Association and prominent civil rights attorney, condemns Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia‘s remarks that some African-Americans are hurt by being admitted to top universities and might be better served at “slower-track” ones. The comments, which generated a firestorm of controversy, came last week during […]

The trial has received nationwide attention because of the brutal allegations against the former officer, Daniel Holtzclaw, and the all-White jury selected to seek justice for his 13 Black female victims.

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UPDATED Tuesday, March 31, 2015 at 3:56 p.m., ET– Benjamin Crump, the civil rights attorney who represented the families of Michael Brown Jr., Tamir Rice, and…

Courtesy of CNN Dot Com The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has opened an investigation into the mysterious shooting death of 18 year old Michael…