Crime

Civil rights leaders rejoiced that Derek Chauvin was convicted for killing George Floyd. But their collective sigh of relief was tempered as they reminded people that the fight for equality and justice is far from over.

A jury found Derek Chauvin guilty of killing George Floyd with a historic verdict that took less than 12 hours to reach.

Authorities launched a manhunt for "a person of interest" in the Tuesday shooting, 30-year-old Gabriel DeWitt Wilson.

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland has ended a Trump-era restriction on investigations into police departments and issued a memo to all U.S. attorneys and other relevant staff outlining policies to address law enforcement.

Grassroots organizations across Chicago have intensified calls for a community-driven police accountability system in the wake of 13-year-old Adam Toledo's killing.

The gunman in the deadly FedEx mass shooting in Indianapolis has been identified as Brandon Scott Hole, 19, but officials said his motive remained unclear even at least half of the eight victims were confirmed as members of the Sikh community.

Shane Belleville was charged with racist hate crimes for allegedly calling a group of children racist slurs while trying to run them over with his pickup truck in Holbrook, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston.

Alleah Taylor, the ex-girlfriend of former NFL player Chad Wheeler who claims he physically abused her, opened up about her allegations of brutal domestic violence in an interview on the "Tamron Hall" show.

A white driver attacked a Minnesota cop with his car and a hammer and lived to tell about it four days after Daunte Wright, who is Black, was gunned down during a traffic stop for having too many air fresheners in his car.

The gunman who killed five people, including a prominent doctor in South Carolina, his wife, and two grandchildren, was former NFL player Phillip Adams, according to the AP.

The firing of seven detention officers involved in the in-custody death of Marvin Scott III is seen as "a good first step," but they were neither charged nor arrested for their roles at the Collin County jail in McKinney, Texas.

White supremacist Lee Mouat pleaded guilty to beating Devin Freelon Jr., a Black 18-year-old, in his mouth with a bicycle lock stemming from a racist encounter at a Michigan beach last June.