Crime, Law and Justice

The gunman who killed 10 Black people in a racist attack at a Buffalo supermarket has been charged Wednesday with federal hate crimes and could face the death penalty.
According to a new court filing, Colleen Larson allegedly admitted to prosecutors in a jailhouse interview that she shot Nicole Lenway outside a supervised parenting center in Minneapolis at the direction of her boyfriend Timothy Amacher.
Minneapolis officials haven't showed up to meetings on police reforms
Minneapolis city leaders have so far declined to meet with state officials to discuss reform of the police department. City representatives have not appeared for meetings with the Minnesota Department of Human Rights that were scheduled for May 24 and June 7, but say they will attend the next meeting scheduled for June 21.
Judge blocks Texas investigating families of trans youth
A Texas judge on Friday temporarily blocked the state from investigating families of transgender children who have received gender-confirming medical care, a new obstacle to the state labeling such treatments as child abuse.
White nationalists and supremacists, on accounts often run by young men, are building thriving, macho communities across social media platforms like Instagram, Telegram and TikTok, evading detection with coded hashtags and innuendo.