Family and friends of Joshua Brown said Jackson State University police falsely arrested the Jones College student for the death of JSU student Jaylen Burns.
On Thursday, Sept. 14, more than six years after the incident, a jury found that Southaven officers involved were not civilly liable for the death of Ismael Lopez. The civil verdict comes years after a decision not to criminally charge the officers involved.
Three national pathologists say Mississippi’s chief medical examiner should have labeled the cause of death as homicide for Damien Cameron, a Black Braxton, Miss., resident whose mother alleges that two white Rankin County deputies knelt on his back for over 20 minutes, causing his death in July 2021.
James Robertson was 55 years old when he died in the Yazoo County Jail on Feb. 25, 2023. His family is looking for answers.
Attorney Malik Shabazz called for the prosecution of Rankin County deputies who he alleges stormed a house in Braxton, Miss., on Jan. 24, 2023, and executed a “90-minute long intimidation and torture session where excessive force was used gratuitously on the handcuffed men.”
Columnist Leo Carney highlights how a pattern of police shootings on the Gulf Coast “negatively affects their families and the entire community as a whole.”
Gulfport Police Department transferred the case involving the officer who shot Jaheim McMillan on Oct. 6, 2022, of an officer-involved shooting on Oct. 6, 2022, to the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation.
D’Monterrio Gibson, 24 years old, shared a letter with the Mississippi Free Press containing death threats directed toward him.
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