Posts Tagged ‘innocent’
Can Kim Kardashian save the life of death row inmate Kevin Cooper?
A tweet by Kim Kardashian this past Sunday may mean new hope for California death row inmate Kevin Cooper. Cooper has been on death row since he was convicted in 1985 of a quadruple murder of a family in the Chino Hills suburb of Los Angeles. The crime scene was bloody and brutal. Law enforcement insists…
Read MoreIndependent filmmaker Alyze Elyse garners 25 million streams on Amazon Prime
The reason the news of Greensboro, North Carolina, writer, filmmaker and actress Alyze Elyse garnering over 25 million streams on Amazon Prime was so huge is that she is considered the first female independent filmmaker to achieve these numbers. Competition is fierce on the home front for female filmmakers and producers in a predominately male…
Read MoreNo clemency for Georgia ‘stocking strangler’ for killing White women
The nights of September 1977 to April 1978 were deadly in Columbus, Georgia, as nine elderly White women were robbed and raped. Seven of the women were murdered in their homes, strangled with their own stockings, and two survived. Columbus is a thriving major city just an hour’s drive south of the Atlanta metropolitan area.…
Read MoreDetroit police chief says it was OK for cop to beat innocent man (video)
In Detroit, being totally innocent of a crime and getting beaten by a cop is OK, according to its police chief. Last week, a Detroit man identified as David Bivins and his girlfriend were shopping at a local Meijer department store when they were detained by a loss prevention member. The couple had brought in bags…
Read MoreWatch: Cop appears to be caught planting drugs in Baltimore
Since the death of Freddie Gray, police in the city of Baltimore have been under the microscope for a series of alleged injustices. Now, once again, there is evidence that Baltimore has a serious problem with dirty cops. The Baltimore public defender’s office released body cam footage from an arrest that occurred in January by…
Read MoreBreaking development in alleged Atlanta bridge arsonist case
In March 2017, Basil Eleby became infamous for allegedly starting a fire in Atlanta that took out a portion of Interstate 85 near downtown. Eleby was accused of being high on crack and setting a shopping cart with a chair on fire beneath an underpass. The fire spread to building supplies left in place for…
Read MoreWrongfully convicted Black man freed after 40 years
in 1976, a single strand of hair tied Ledura Watkins to the robbery and murder of a woman in Detroit. An FBI lab technician gave the evidence during his murder trial and at the age of 21, Watkins was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Now after 40 years in a Michigan…
Read MoreIn Georgia, if a cop thinks you smoke weed, you will get a DUI
The state of Georgia now uses at least 250 law enforcement officers designated as Drug Recognition Experts (DRE). Getting this type of designation entails the officer goes through a one-month training process. At the end of the training, the officer is certified to tell by observation alone if a driver is under the influence of…
Read MoreKnife found at OJ Simpson murder scene too small
Last week, new developments in the OJ Simpson murder case made the news. It was discovered that a retired LAPD officer had in his possession a knife that was discovered at Simpson’s former mansion. The officer had the knife for as long as 13 years. The knife was reportedly given to the officer by a construction worker…
Read MoreJudges say Black death row inmate is innocent, but he’s still set to be executed
California is set to execute death row inmate Kevin Cooper for a brutal murder that occurred in 1983. Cooper was sentenced to death in 1985 for the brutal murder of a family in the Chino Hills suburb of Los Angeles. Law enforcement insists that Cooper killed Douglas and Peggy Ryen, their 10-year-old daughter Jessica, and…
Read MoreMother suffering with asthma abused by NYPD
The New York Police Department once again has been caught on camera brutalizing people of color. This time NYPD police assaulted Denise Stewart, 48, an asthmatic mother of four. She was dragged naked from her apartment and pressed against the wall by NYPD cops as she screamed, “I can’t breathe.” To make matters worse, police were…
Read MoreBlack man cleared of rape by DNA test he did not request
Almost 14 years ago, Michael Phillips of Dallas, Texas, was accused of a crime he did not commit. Now, thanks to the testing of a DNA rape kit, he has been cleared of all charges. In 1990, Phillips was accused of raping a 16-year-old girl at a hotel where he lived and worked. The victim…
Read MoreGrandmother wrongly convicted of murder free after 32 years
Mary Virginia Jones is a woman of strong faith in God. So strong is her faith, that she took pity on a homeless man with whom she later became emotionally involved. She fed this man, took him to church and even let him live in her house. They later became boyfriend and girlfriend. Jones was…
Read More‘Bow down, b—hes!’ Artists who went from innocent to edgy
Beyoncé shocked the world this week, but she isn’t the first innocent artist to go edgy.
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