FBI Closes 1964 Civil Rights Case with No Charges Against Former Sheriff’s Deputy
For more than 50 years, Frank Andrews’s family never got justice.
For more than 50 years, Frank Andrews’s family never got justice.
A 34-year-old man who hopped a White House fence because he wanted to pass a message to President Obama was killed Tuesday by deputy sheriff after allegedly swinging a knife at a courthouse in Pennsylvania.
Jermaine McBean was listening to music through earbuds and carrying an air rifle when a sheriff’s deputy fatally shot him in 2013.
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Sonomo County Sheriff’s Deputy Erick Gelhaus had a split second to decide whether to pull the trigger when a teenager pointed what appeared to be an automatic weapon at him. The 24-year veteran of the department squeezed the trigger eight times, killing the 13-year-old boy who turned out to be holding…
When a law enforcement person is killed a jury’s indignation always seems to be greater. In this case the indignation translated into a death penalty. By Paul Rioux New Orleans Times-Picayune NEW ORLEANS — A jury sentenced John Wayne Johnson to death Wednesday for killing an Orleans Parish sheriff’s deputy during a botched Algiers bank…