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Courts & Law

Lancaster police deployed tear gas on a crowd of people protesting early Monday after an officer shot and killed a man while responding to a domestic disturbance call.
Pennsylvania
Policing
Social Justice

Police shoot, kill knife-wielding man in Lancaster, setting off protests

Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Lancaster after police shot and killed Ricardo Munoz, 27, on Sunday afternoon.

5 years ago

Evidence markers identified dozens of shell casings left outside the house on Delafield Street
Criminal Justice
New Jersey
NBC10

2 dead, 6 injured after shooting at house party near Rutgers University

Evidence markers identified dozens of shell casings left outside the house on Delafield Street. A motive behind the shooting remained unclear late Sunday morning.

5 years ago

Warden Dana Metzger describes how analysts will coordinate with prison officials as they monitor more than 2,000 cameras. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Criminal Justice
Delaware
Policing

More than three years after deadly prison riot, Delaware unveils advanced camera system

Analysts will monitor cameras and coordinate with officers at Delaware prisons to help prevent another riot like the 2017 incident that left one officer dead.

5 years ago

A housing illustration
Housing
Pennsylvania
Spotlight PA

From relief to despair, one Pa. family struggles with the ambiguity of federal eviction ban

In Pa., it’s up to individual courts in counties to decide how to interpret the federal order. With debts mounting, renters lives are in limbo, and relief is only temporary.

5 years ago

DOC commissioner Marcus Hicks told Senate committee Thursday that department has committed to improving the conditions at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women. (Courtesy of NJ Legislature)
Criminal Justice
New Jersey
NJ Spotlight

N.J. agrees to settlement over allegations of long-term sexual abuse at women’s prison

The DOJ report, the result of an investigation that began in April 2018, found systemic problems at Mahan that allow sexual abuse to occur undetected and undeterred.

5 years ago

President Trump, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross (center) and U.S. Attorney General William Barr walk into the White House Rose Garden for a July 2019 press conference on the census. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
NPR
Government Accountability
National

Court blocks Trump’s attempt to change who counts for allocating House seats

Trump's memorandum has sparked a total of eight legal challenges around the country.

5 years ago

Ships and barges are idle in the middle of the Delaware River between Chester, Pa., and Wilmington, Del. (Chris Gardner/AP Photo)
Delaware
Environment

Big Oil should pay for climate change damage, Delaware lawsuit says

Citing the long-term economic damage climate change has done and will continue to do, the state is suing 31 of the world’s largest fossil-fuel companies.

5 years ago

President Donald Trump
Elections
Politics

Trump releases list of 20 new possible Supreme Court picks

The list includes a trio of conservative Republican senators: Ted Cruz of Texas, Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Josh Hawley of Missouri — all potential 2024 Republican candidates.

5 years ago

Housing
New Jersey

N.J. investigators issue 100 violations for housing discrimination

Attorney General Gurbir Grewal says they found many ads saying people with Section 8 or state rental assistance shouldn’t bother applying.

5 years ago

A resident is pictured using a wheelchair inside a nursing home.
Aging
New Jersey
Public Health
NBC10

N.J. nursing home where 17 bodies were stuffed into morgue hit with lawsuit

The lawsuit against Andover Subacute and Rehabilitation Center I and II alleges that the facilities did not take the proper precautions to keep residents safe from coronavirus

5 years ago

Police hold a perimeter near the White House as demonstrators gather to protest police brutality in the morning hours of May 31, 2020, in Washington, D.C.
NPR
National
Policing
Social Justice

Political divisions drive police brutality cases

Most large civil settlements for police killings were in liberal areas the year after the Ferguson unrest. Now, lawyers say current protests are hardening political divisions.

5 years ago

E. Jean Carroll
NPR
Politics

Justice Dept. intervenes to take over Trump’s defense in defamation lawsuit

E. Jean Carroll, who has accused the president of rape, is suing Trump for defamation after he called her a liar.

5 years ago

This file photo shows the gun archive in the Philadelphia Police Department's Forensic Science Center office, which holds hundreds of firearms of all types and caliber sizes. (Abdul Sulayman/The Philadelphia Tribune)
Philadelphia
Public Safety

Could bringing back ‘gun court’ help abate gun violence in Philly?

During City Council’s Special Committee on Gun Violence Prevention hearing Tuesday, a judge pitched "gun court" as a way to reduce shootings.

5 years ago

FILE- In this Aug. 6, 2020 file photo, New York State Attorney General Letitia James takes a question at a news conference in New York. James said on Saturday, Sept. 5, 2020 that she will impanel a grand jury to look into the death of Daniel Prude. Prude, 41, apparently stopped breathing as police in Rochester, N.Y. were restraining him in March 2020 and died when he was taken off life support a week later. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)
Policing
Race & Ethnicity
Social Justice

Rochester police leaders retire after suffocation death

Top police leaders in Rochester are retiring en masse amid criticism of the city's handling of the suffocation death of Daniel Prude, Mayor Lovely Warren said Tuesday.

5 years ago

Demonstrators raise their fist in the air, in front of law enforcement, on August 25, 2020 in Kenosha, Wisconsin. As the city declared a state of emergency curfew, a third night of civil unrest occurred after the shooting of Jacob Blake, 29, on August 23. Video shot of the incident appears to show Blake shot multiple times in the back by Wisconsin police officers while attempting to enter the drivers side of a vehicle. The 29-year-old Blake was undergoing surgery for a severed spinal cord, shattered vertebrae and severe damage to organs, according to the family attorneys in published accounts. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
NPR
Policing
Race & Ethnicity
Social Justice

Many Black people say police killings aren’t ‘going to be fixed overnight’

Nearly 65% of Americans agreed that the country "needs to continue making changes to give Black Americans equal rights with white Americans."

5 years ago

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