A federal judge on Thursday sentenced the last two of six White ex-law enforcement officers in Mississippi to lengthy prison terms for their torture of two Black men last year, a racist assault ...

After Dedmon summoned “The Goon Squad," the officers crept around the ranch-style home to avoid a surveillance camera. They kicked down the carport door and burst inside without a warrant.

The AFRO knows what it’s like to endure challenging times. John H. Murphy, Sr., a former enslaved man founded the AFRO in 1892 with $200 from his wife, Martha Howard Murphy. Together they ...

Some of the officers were part of a group so willing to use excessive force they called themselves the Goon Squad. The charges against them followed an Associated Press investigation in March 2023 ...

All five deputies were part of a group of officers that called themselves the "goon squad" for their willingness to use excessive force, according to court documents. The group broke into the home ...

Members of President-elect Donald Trump's transition team are drawing up a list of military officers to be fired, potentially ...

A suspect accused of fatally shooting a 23-year-old police officer in Euclid, Ohio, on Saturday night is dead, police said Sunday. Officials released body camera footage of the fatal shooting of a ...

The Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation into a Mississippi sheriff's department whose officers tortured two Black men in a racist attack that included beatings, repeated use ...

The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday launched a civil rights probe into the Rankin County Sheriff's Department in Mississippi after several of its former officers known as the "Goon Squad" were ...