Mississippi sheriff changes policies after violent abuse. Victims say it's to escape accountability
Attorneys for the victims of a racist episode of police torture say new policies unveiled by a Mississippi sheriffโs department this week were introduced so the sheriff can escape liability in a civil lawsuit and forestall a federal probe.
Deputies in civil rights probe accused of sexual assault
An attorney says Mississippi sheriff's deputies already being investigated for possible civil rights violations after allegedly placing a gun in a Black man's mouth and firing it attempted to sexually assault him and a second man during the same encounter.
Memorial held for 6-year-old boy killed in grizzly triple-homicide in Warren
DETROIT โ Taiโraz Moore and his fatherโs girlfriend, Isis Rimson, were killed execution-style in the basement of a Warren house Oct. 1. Taiโrazโs family said the 6-year-old had a magnetic personality. It was Taiโrazโs aunt who sought to bring the happiness to this affair as she believed Taiโraz himself would have. Community activist Malik Shabazz of the New Marcus Garvey Movement decried the violence that took Taiโrazโs life. We have to love our way out of the abnormal becoming normal, out of the unthinkable becoming doable," Shabazz told the crowd.