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How US police are co-opting a law meant to protect victims of crime
Experts fear law enforcement is using Marsy’s Law to hide names and dodge accountability in cases of police violence.
Published On 29 Mar 2024
Former US police officer sentenced in killing of Black man Elijah McClain
Randy Roedema handed 14-month sentence for 2019 killing of McClain, who was put in a chokehold, injected with ketamine.
Published On 6 Jan 2024
US paramedics found guilty in 2019 death of Black man Elijah McClain
McClain fell unconscious after police put him in a chokehold before paramedics injected him with powerful sedative.
Published On 23 Dec 2023
From: UpFront
Angela Davis: ‘Palestine is a moral litmus test for the world’
Citing the late poet June Jordan, Angela Davis stresses the importance of Palestine for other social justice movements.
Video Duration 09 minutes 56 seconds
Published On 27 Oct 2023
Video Duration 09 minutes 56 seconds

The unbeaten WBA light-heavyweight champion talks to Al Jazeera about faith, fighting, and being a ‘nice guy’ in boxing.

The five officers are already facing state-level charges for beating Nichols, who died in the hospital three days later.

Ta’Kiya Young and her unborn child were killed by police in Ohio in incident family says could have been avoided.

Six white officers have agreed to sentences of between five and 30 years, recommended by Mississippi prosecutors.

Tou Thao, convicted in state court for involvement in 2020 killing, sentenced to nearly five years in prison.

The investigation centres on questions of discrimination in the wake of the beating death of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols.

The Black teenager’s killing in Mississippi in 1955 helped propel the US civil rights movement.

The 1955 lynching of Till, a Black teen, and his mother’s subsequent activism helped propel US civil rights movement.

Killing of Black man by fellow subway rider sparked protests that led to eventual charges of manslaughter.

Police killed the 17-year-old named Nahel M early on Tuesday, sparking fury in the Parisian suburbs.

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