In remarks on Monday, Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced the Department of Justice probe into the practices of the Chicago Police Department.
According to
the Chicago Sun-Times, the investigation will use of force, racial discrimination and systems of accountability.
Geneva Read-Veal, the mother of Sandra Bland, said in an interview with MSNBC that she does not have confidence in the investigation into her daughter's arrest and death while in police custody.
Sixteen year old Kaylan Ward of New Orleans was killed last week while
attempting to cross the interstate in the dark of the night. Her mother spoke during a vigil honoring the teen's life, stressing to the teenagers present the importance of listening to their parents.
Police are searching for a
man wanted for attempting to rape a woman early Saturday morning in the New York City Lower East Side neighborhood of Alphabet City. The suspect followed the 25-year-old woman into her apartment at approximately 3:30am where she was able to fight off the attack.
University of Maryland graduate Mariam Folashade Adebayo was killed Monday evening outside a Germantown, Maryland Target by ex-boyfriend Donald Bricker, police say. Abedayo had recently ended the relationship and may have agreed to meet with Bricker that night after he threatened to harm himself over the breakup.
Charles County Police in Maryland found Romechia Simms pushing her deceased son, Ji’Aire Lee, on a swing on Friday morning at 6:44 am. Investigators had been called to the playground after receiving calls that she had been doing this for an “unusual amount of time.”
