Crime, Law and Justice

'Sleeping while black': Louisville police kill unarmed black woman
Attorneys for Breonna Taylor's family say police executed her in her own apartment. Officers were serving a narcotics warrant. Taylor's boyfriend fired at officers, fearing they were intruders.
Georgia AG seeks probe of prosecutors in Arbery killing case
The Feb. 23 killing of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery has sparked a national outcry, in part because months passed before the arrests of Gregory and Travis McMichael. They were charged with murder after video of the shooting appeared online.
American Jews were targets of more anti-Semitic incidents in 2019 than any other year over the past four decades, a surge marked by deadly attacks on a California synagogue, a Jewish grocery store in New Jersey and a rabbi's New York home, the Anti-Defamation League reported Tuesday.
The Ramsey County Attorney’s Office said Monday that a Metro Transit Police Department investigation found no indication that an attack last week against a woman at a St. Paul light rail station was racially motivated.
Police spokesperson John Elder said investigators found the cause of the fire was an electrical malfunction. A neighbor saw the fire overnight Sunday at Tawfiq Islamic Center Mosque and called for help.
Georgia AG requests federal probe in handling of Arbery case
Georgia's attorney general on Sunday asked the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the handling of the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, a black man who authorities say died at the hands of two white men as he ran through a neighborhood.
Minnesotans lace up their sneakers for #IRunWithMaud
Runners across the country, including in Minnesota, laced up their shoes Friday to run exactly 2.23 miles to remember Ahmaud Arbery, the Georgia man killed while jogging near his home. He would have turned 26 Friday.