A 32-year-old man who shot a member of a U.S. Marshals Service Task Force outside of a hotel in Mississippi has pleaded guilty to four counts of assaulting and resisting officers and one count of discharging a firearm.
Acting CBP Commissioner Mark Morgan insisted Sunday that the arrests of about 680 people during raids at Mississippi workplaces last week were not “raids.”
ICE arrested about 680 people during raids of seven food processing plants across Mississippi on Wednesday in what officials described as the largest single-state sweep in U.S. history.
Former FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze has been appointed head the Mississippi Department of Human Services.
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Justice Department has reopened the racist killing of Emmett Till, a black 14-year-old from Chicago who was visiting family in Mississippi in 1955, NPR reports. The department says it has received “new information” in the case but did not provide specifics. A new book on the killing, The Blood of Emmett Till, combined…
Civil rights activists and others are calling for the federal government to reopen its investigation of the killing of Emmett Till, a black teenager who was killed in 1955 for allegedly flirting with a white woman.
The FBI is investigating a fire that tore through a black church in Mississippi that was scrawled with the message, “Vote Trump,” in silver spray paint.
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI will use its Behavioral Analysis Unit to investigate the hanging death of Mississippi man Otis Byrd, the USA Today reports. The unit “focuses specifically on criminal human behavior in an attempt to better understand criminals — who they are, how they think, why they do what they do —…
