More than a dozen New York City Department of Correction officers will be disciplined for their conduct surrounding the death of Layleen Xtravaganza Cubilette-Polanco, 27, a transgender woman who died last year while in solitary confinement at Rikers Island jail.Three officers and one captain will be suspended without pay immediately, the department said in a…
2.75M Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Sign in Like this video? Sign in to make your opinion count. Sign in Don't like this video? Sign in to make your opinion count. Sign in Published on Jun 21, 2020Attorney Bonnie Smith said in a press conference…
A New Jersey corrections officer has been suspended and a FedEx employee was fired Tuesday after video showed them mocking the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis.Footage first surfaced on Monday of the two reenacting Floyd's death as a crowd of protesters marched in a Black Lives Matter…
Video shows a man kneeling on the neck of another man shouting unintelligibly back at protesters in New Jersey The New Jersey governor, Phil Murphy, condemned the stunt on Tuesday night on Twitter. Photograph: Jose F Moreno/AP A corrections officer who participated in a counter-protest to a Black Lives Matter demonstration in New Jersey in…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…