A New Jersey judge who in 2016 suggested that a rape victim should have tried to stop her attacker by closing her legs was officially removed from the bench Tuesday. The New Jersey Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favor of John Russo Jr.’s permanent barring as judge in the state. The seven-justice committee determined that Russo, …
A Massachusetts man is facing a slew of criminal charges for allegedly killing his family’s pet Chihuahua Monday. Weymouth police officers responded to a local apartment building following reports that Shykeim Basden, 19, had killed a dog. MassLive reported that after a witness told officers that Basden killed a small dog named CoCo, a family …
A Minnesota police officer who was allegedly filmed kneeling on George Floyd’s neck before his death Monday was reportedly involved in at least two use-of-force incidents during his career. Minneapolis police said Floyd, 46, was arrested Monday evening after he attempted to use forged documents at Cup Foods. Officers reportedly pulled Floyd from his car …
Two new videos appear to show the initial arrest of George Floyd, who died Monday after a Minnesota police officer knelt on his neck for nearly eight minutes. KMSP acquired a video that shows three Minneapolis police officers drag Floyd out of his car. Someone in a car directly behind Floyd apparently filmed the encounter. …
An ongoing child abuse and neglect case in Tennessee reportedly resulted in investigators finding a girl’s skeletal remains in a couple’s backyard on Saturday. According to 1057News.com, authorities got involved on Friday, after someone called 911 about a 10-year-old boy walking alone in the street in Roane County. Officers eventually made contact with the boy’s …
A bystander reportedly broadcasted the fatal arrest on Facebook Live
A Pennsylvania man remains jailed amid allegations that he sexually assaulted a 6-year-old girl and gave her a sexually-transmitted disease (STD). According to NorthCentralPA.com and the Williamsport Sun-Gazette, Williamsport City police arrested Daniel Prieto, 38, on suspicion of having forced the child to have oral and vaginal sex on at least three occassions in January. …
A California woman was arrested on Friday for allegedly leaving xenophobic letters at least five homes belonging to Asian Americans. According to SFGate, Nancy Arechiga, 52, demanded in handwritten letters for people born outside the U.S. to “return, go back to your land immediately, fast, with urgency.” A copy of the letter was also found …
Authorities in Connecticut, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania are searching for a man who they believe killed a stranger and acquaintance last week before abducting the acquaintance’s girlfriend. WPVI reported that University of Connecticut student Peter Manfredonia, 23, is suspected of killing Theodore Demers, 62, in an attack Friday morning in Willington that left another man …
A former Louisiana sheriff’s deputy husband and ex-teacher wife who were arrested in October on rape charges also gave students cupcakes that were tainted with bodily fluids, multiple lawsuits have alleged. WBRZ reported that four civil lawsuits, the latest filed last week, accused Dennis Perkins, 44, of putting his semen in batches of cupcakes that …
A recent study revealed that just 55 percent of Americans know that Memorial Day commemorates those who died in service while serving in the U.S. Armed Forces. The University of Phoenix found that 27 percent of participants who didn’t know the meaning of Memorial Day mistook the federal holiday for Veterans Day, which recognizes all …
William “Roddie” Bryan Jr., the man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery’s February 23 shooting death, attempted to use his vehicle to “confine and detain” Arbery in the minutes leading up to murder, federal authorities alleged in recently-released warrants. According to CNN, Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) Director Vic Reynolds told reporters Friday that if they believed …
