Five former Memphis police officers have been charged with second-degree murder and other crimes in the arrest and death of Tyre Nichols, a Black motorist who died three days after a confrontation with the officers during a traffic stop.
A family member of the teen who authorities say fatally fell from an Orlando amusement ride has started a petition to close the ride for good.
The family of the teen who fell to his death from an Orlando amusement park ride has hired a pair of high-profile personal injury attorneys.
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” attorney Benjamin Crump said that it “seems to be” that the fatal police shooting of Ma’Khia Bryant in Columbus, OH is different from the killings of Daunte Wright and George Floyd because Wright and Floyd
Attorney Benjamin Crump tweeted Tuesday evening that police in Columbus, Ohio, had shot an “unarmed” Ma’Khia Bryant, though body camera footage later released by police to the media appeared to show that the teenager was armed with a knife.
Friday on CNN’s “New Day,” Benjamin Crump, George Floyd’s family lawyer, predicted Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin would be convicted for Floyd’s death while under arrest.
Left-wing Hollywood star George Clooney has been in contact with Benjamin Crump, George Floyd’s family lawyer, during the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. Crump says Clooney has offered advice and reportedly suggested that Chauvin should volunteer to “get down on the floor in that courtroom, and let somebody come and put their knee on his neck.”
Sen. Kamala Harris told Jacob Blake Jr. on Monday that she is “proud of him and how he is working through his pain,” according to attorney Benjamin Crump, who is representing the Blake family.
Five Democrat senators knelt during a moment of silence for George Floyd — a black man who recently died in police custody — on Capitol Hill Friday afternoon.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Mayor Jacob Frey said four officers involved in the restraint of a black man who died have been fired.
Benjamin Crump, a civil rights attorney representing the father of Ahmaud Arbery, called for police to arrest the Georgia man who filmed Arbery being shot and killed, USA Today reported Thursday.