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The book-length "No Escape: Male Rape in U.S. Prisons" was released on April 19, 2001. [6] The report documented that prison rape was commonplace during a time when half of U.S. states compiled no statistics on the subject. [2] Brent Staples described the report, which was based partly on the testimony of over 200 inmate victims, as "grisly".
Andrew Daniel Lester, an 84-year-old white man, was charged on April 17, 2023, with armed criminal action and first-degree assault, the equivalent of attempted murder in Missouri. The Clay County district attorney stated that there was a "racial component" to the shooting. [2] If convicted, Lester faces 10 years to life in prison. [3]
The fatal shooting of Grant was a catalyst for several protests. On January 8, 2009, a protest march in Oakland of about 250 people [159] became violent. Rioters caused more than $200,000 in damages: breaking shop and car windows, burning cars, setting trash bins on fire, and throwing bottles at police officers.
Ronda Morrison, an 18-year-old white girl, was shot to death at a dry-cleaners in 1986. Walter McMillian, a black man, was arrested and immediately sent to Alabama's death row, where he was held for two years without having even been charged. McMillian was eventually charged in 1988 despite six witnesses placing him at a fish fry during the murder.
2 years after fatal shooting, family questions whether a Black man can stand his ground. William “Marc” Wilson, who was recently convicted of involuntary manslaughter for a shooting that he ...
June 25, 2024 at 8:30 AM. WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 500 people — some linked to transnational cartels and organized crime rings — have been charged with gun trafficking and other crimes ...
On October 16, 2023, Leonard Cure, a 53-year-old black American man, was fatally shot during a physical struggle by a sheriff's deputy in Camden County, Georgia, after being pulled over for speeding. Cure had been exonerated in 2020 after being wrongfully convicted of armed robbery in Florida in 2003. [ 1][ 2]
July 23, 2024 at 3:53 PM. A Wisconsin man fled to Ireland and sought asylum to avoid a prison sentence for joining a mob's attack on the U.S. Capitol over three years ago, federal authorities ...