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The Tennessee House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday to strip local governments of their ability to enact police reform measures, which would in effect roll back significant efforts made in Memphis last year following the high-profile death of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols at the hands of police.
Last month, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson announced that the city will stop using ShotSpotter, the controversial gunshot detection technology meant to alert police immediately to the exact location of gunfire. Johnson said the system was too expensive, ineffective and potentially prejudicial.
James Ybarra, who was arrested on drug charges in 2014, filed a federal lawsuit on Monday against the city of Houston and the former police officer who arrested him after a Texas court found he had been wrongfully convicted.
Deion Byrd would have turned 26 years old on Jan. 31. His father, Marcus Byrd, told HuffPost that Deion usually spent his birthdays with his family, watching television and eating some of his mother’s cooking at their home in Memphis, Tennessee.
This month, Baltimore police promoted an officer who was once charged in the death of Freddie Gray — and she will now oversee civilian complaints filed against officers.
A judge took the extraordinary step of rescinding his own guilty verdict last week in the case of a Mississippi civil rights attorney whom police arrested for filming a traffic stop last summer.
Chicago’s mayor is ending the city’s contract for a controversial gunshot detection system that critics say was too expensive, ineffective, and potentially prejudicial.
A lawsuit filed this week by Julian, a civil rights organization based in Mississippi, alleges that the city of Lexington, a predominantly Black rural town, and its police department have harassed and abused Black residents for years.