Black Justice Tracker

• Nearly 70 marched through Senatobia on June 26 chanting for the officer's arrest, ending at the Walmart where 1-year-old Kohen was shot
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A grand jury report reveals Sacramento's Police Review Commission has been rendered ineffective by city council inaction.

• Of 178 recommendations...

Named Victims in Recent Shootings

• Rashad Howell Identified: Baltimore Police named 22-year-old Rashad Howell as the fatality in the June 10...

Rashad Howell, 22, was identified as the fatality in the June 10 triple shooting on the 1800 block of N. Payson Street, with a 20-year-old woman in stable condition and a 22-year-old man critical.

• Organizers will march Friday in Senatobia demanding accountability after a police officer fatally shot 1-year-old Kohen Wiley in a Walmart lot.
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Only about 12% of California officers disciplined for racist, sexist or anti-LGBTQ conduct lost their jobs, with many others receiving mere reprimands...

A Trump-backed rule change allowing U.S. Park Police to pursue vehicles for non-violent offenses directly enabled a chase that killed innocent...

Strung Up traces how white supremacy conditioned generations to ritualize violence against Black children, drawing from Europe's long history of...

Birmingham police released bodycam and aerial footage from the June 10 fatal shooting of 19-year-old Xavier Gray during a traffic stop, showing the...

Excessive Force Cases

• 🔥 California Tasing Incident: California cops repeatedly tasered 61-year-old disabled Black man Aerin Robinson while he...

Court Decisions on Racial Factors in Policing

• Supreme Court Declines Review: The Supreme Court declined to review the Donte Carter case from...

Two approaches reveal a core tension in tackling gun violence affecting Black communities.

• Greensboro summit brings cities together for peer...

Police Shooting Cases

• 🔥 Ohio Special Prosecutor Appointed: Ohio AG's office will serve as special prosecutor in the fatal shooting of Akili...

A clear trend is emerging: departments are deploying new oversight tools while racial disparities in stops and misconduct remain entrenched.

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Voters are pressing Congress for gun violence action amid hundreds of mass shootings, yet Virginia's $10M+ care fund sits unused because lawmakers...

The fatal shooting of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley in Senatobia during a Walmart shoplifting response reveals how a minor call escalated into deadly force...

A recent attack on a 9-year-old Black boy in Naperville, Illinois, shows how historical racial exclusion continues into the present. Jeffrey...

• National reform scan: A 16-page National Institute report maps oversight and defund efforts across cities including Albuquerque, Austin, Boston, and...

• General analysis shows white juries often apply a white reasonableness standard in self-defense cases involving Black victims.
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South Carolina's pattern of racial terror from 193 lynchings (1877-1950) and biased executions of Black juveniles has evolved into modern acquittals...