Rev. Al Sharpton called for prosecutions of any Jackson police officers involved in the death of Dexter Wade while giving a eulogy at his funeral.
Dexter Wade’s body was exhumed hours before his family could arrive at his gravesite, despite Hinds County giving a different time for the ceremony.
The U.S. Justice Department is investigating the Lexington, Miss., Police Department amid allegations of misconduct.
Dexter Wade’s death and the monthslong failure of the Jackson Police Department to notify his family deserve federal scrutiny from the U.S. Department of Justice, civil-rights attorney Ben Crump said as he joined family members at a press conference on Monday, Oct. 30.
Dexter Wade’s death and Hinds County’s subsequent decision to bury him in an unmarked grave without informing his mother was “tragic” but “there was no malicious intent,” Jackson Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba said Thursday.
“When it comes to media coverage of violence, white victims matter more. Prove me wrong. Seriously,” Donna Ladd writes.
The Black family of Harry Mitchell has waited 32 years for the Lafayette County Sheriff’s Department to solve his 1991 cold case murder.
The Black family of Harry Mitchell, murdered in Lafayette County, Mississippi, in 1991 wants justice after decades of being ignored.
With calls mounting for Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey to resign after six officers pleaded guilty to torturing two Black men, the undersheriff has announced his own resignation.
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