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'Everybody feels at risk': Civil rights groups call for probe into DHS Kristi Noem
MSNBC· 2025-07-23 19:40
mask trying to protect their, you know, themselves and their families from because they're being doxed. Their their spouses are being doxed. Their children are being doxed.You know, this modern technology, you can find out who anybody's family is. So, they wear the mask and self-p protection, but they do wear identifiers. I've never been in operation and I've seen any officer who hasn't got an HSI patch or patch, an ICE patch, FBI, DEA patch.They all have patches. And when they approach somebody, the first ...
'It's a distraction from the Epstein files': Rev. Sharpton reacts to MLK Jr. records release
MSNBC· 2025-07-22 15:21
The Trump administration releasing 200,000 pages of previously sealed documents, but not the ones that you might expect this week. The release involves records related to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. . The Trump administration hailed the move as a major step toward transparency, but Dr.. King's two living children opposed the release of the documents, and civil rights leaders, including my next guest, say it's a distraction from growing calls to release files about Jeffrey Epstein. Joining us ...
Former cop convicted of excessive force in Breonna Taylor case gets 33 months
NBC News· 2025-07-21 23:06
Want to get to some breaking news now because in just the last couple of minutes, we're learning a former Louisville police officer will receive 33 months in prison after his conviction related to the shooting death of Briana Taylor. Want to show you that courthouse uh in Louisville. You see people gathering here as this has just come in.Here's why this matters. We're talking about Brett Hankesen, that former police officer. Um it was recommended by the Department of Justice that he face one day behind bars ...
DOJ seeks one-day sentence for officer involved in Breonna Taylor case
MSNBC· 2025-07-21 00:17
There's a lot going on in the world of police accountability and yet most of it seems sadly unsurprising. The Department of Justice has now completely reversed course and is asking for one day for the officer who fired 10 shots into the home of Briana Taylor on the night of her death as part of a police raid. We're talking about Brett Hankson.And it's not even a new day. It's time served for the day that the officer got when he was actually arrested. Now, keep in mind, this was the same DOJ that actually in ...
‘Going to reach crisis levels’: ICE gets budget boost as it ignores due process rights
MSNBC· 2025-07-20 21:38
I thought it wouldn't be a problem to go to work as um as long as I did nothing wrong. Um as long as I identified myself, who I was. Um and clearly it didn't matter if I was a citizen or if I was a veteran or if if I identified who I was at all. It didn't matter to them. George Rhett, a 25-year-old Army veteran and United States citizen, describing his ICE arrest to Chris Hayes. He said immigration and customs enforcement agents, smashed his car window and yanked him out of his car before pepper- sprraying ...
Trump DOJ seeking one day in prison for ex-officer in Breonna Taylor case is 'insulting': Ben Crump
MSNBC· 2025-07-20 16:38
Turning back to the case of Bana Taylor as Trump's Justice Department announced on Wednesday that it will seek just one day in prison, time already served, against a Louisville, Kentucky police officer charged in connection with the raid that led to her death in 2020. Joining me now is civil rights attorney. I call him the and many do have joined me uh calling him the attorney general of black America, Attorney Benjamin Crump.Attorney Crump, thank you for being with us. You and I have worked closely with fa ...
'Spitting in the face of Lady Justice': Rev. Al slams DOJ memo on ex-officer in Taylor case
MSNBC· 2025-07-18 15:57
botched drug raid back in 2020. On Wednesday, the DOJ asked a judge in the case for a one-day sentence, which is the length of time that Hankisones spent in jail when he was initially booked on the charges. In the filing, the DOJ argues that Hankesen deserves a punishment that is less than what federal sentencing guidelines recommend, adding that he will probably never be able to serve again as a police officer or own a firearm, and that he quote did not wound Taylor or anyone else at the scene that day, al ...
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Forbes· 2025-07-18 05:40
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DOJ recommends one day in prison for ex-cop in Breonna Taylor shooting
NBC News· 2025-07-18 02:30
[Music] A federal judge will now consider an unusual recommendation from the Justice Department in one of the most closely watched cases of the last 5 years. We're learning today prosecutors want a 1day sentence for this former Louisville Police Department officer Brett Hankesen after his conviction connected to the death of Briana Taylor. Her killing one of many connected to nationwide protests in 2020.and bigger picture. This move by the DOJ may give us new insight into just how the Trump administration s ...
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Forbes· 2025-07-17 09:30
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