Killing

Claire Bernish | The Free Thought Project Rock Springs, WY- Jacob Rollen Anglesey has now been indicted by a grand jury for first-degree murder in the 2009 death of a two-year-old child — and new information revealed he’s a cop. On March 9, 2009, emergency services were summoned to help with the boy, Konnor Allen, … Read more

Pictured above: Shannon J. Miles, now being charged with murdering Deputy Goforth (left), and  Sheriff Ron Hickman (right) (TEXAS) Texas’s Harris County Sheriff Ron Hickman told reporters in August his department would investigate the “Black Lives Matter” movement as an impetus for the murder of a deputy, according to reports. Deputy Darren Goforth, 10-year veteran of … Read more

Rose Bouboushian | Courthouse News Service (CN) – Minnesota is illegally withholding November 2015 video footage of Minneapolis police fatally shooting Jamar Clark, an unarmed black man, the ACLU and NAACP claim in court. Minneapolis police reportedly responded to a disturbance call across the street from the local Elks fraternal lodge at about 12:45 a.m. … Read more

Matt Reynolds | Courthouse News Service LOS ANGELES (CN) – The mother of an unarmed homeless man a policeman shot to death last year sued Los Angeles, two police officers and the police chief on Tuesday. After LAPD Officer Clifford Proctor allegedly shot Brendon Glenn twice in the back on May 5, sparking public outrage, … Read more

Jack Bouboushian | Courthouse News Service CHICAGO (CN) – A policeman who fatally shot a 19-year-old college student last December – accidentally killing a 55-year-old neighbor in the process – claims in court that the dead teen is to blame for the incident that has left him with emotional scars. Officer Robert Rialmo filed a … Read more

John Vibes | The Free Thought Project Kenosha County, WI – This week, former police officer Steven Zelich pleaded guilty to killing a woman, putting her body in a suitcase, and leaving it on the side of the highway. The victim, 19-year-old Jenny Gamez, was found stuffed in a suitcase along a highway in Wisconsin in … Read more

Death is always a tragedy. Human life is precious. All civilizations and cultures throughout history have mourned death. All the great religions condemn suicide. Suicide might cease our suffering as we leave the world behind. But at what cost? Some say suicide is the most selfish act, wherein we transfer our suffering to all our … Read more

Aimee Sachs | Courthouse News Service ATLANTA (CN) – It took less than an hour on Thursday for a grand jury to indict a DeKalb County police officer on charges stemming from the March 2015 shooting death of an unarmed black veteran. Officer Robert Olsen turned himself in Friday morning and was released on bond. … Read more

Nick Divito | Courthouse News Service BROOKLYN (CN) – Jury selection begins Thursday for the trial of a rookie New York City police officer accused of gunning down an unarmed black man in the dimly lit stairwell of a housing project 14 months ago. Peter Liang, 28, is accused of killing Akai Gurley, also 28, … Read more

A message from Charles Pettit Sr. Charles “CJay” Pettit Jr. was shot over 10 times by Officer James Hill on October 5, 2015. CJay was responsive in transport telling emergency responders “I’m not gonna run, I can’t breathe…” after they handcuffed him to the gurney. Why…because “he fit the description” along with a friend of … Read more

  Andrew Emett | The Free Thought Project Nearly 50 years since the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the FBI and Memphis Police Department have sparingly released information implicating themselves or members of their agencies in facilitating and directly causing the untimely death of Dr. King. Although the Justice Department officially claims James … Read more