Week In Review

Philly’s strategy for solving violent crime relies on the public’s trust. The police killing of Eddie Irizarry, 27, threatens to strain that trust even more. ABOVE PHOTO: A speaker at a protest in memory of Eddie Irizarry, killed by Philadelphia police officer Mark Dial in August 2023.  Photo: Meredith Edlow By Mensah M. Dean This…

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Couch’s boyfriend, 21-year-old Eugene Louis-Jocques of Florida, was arrested in Louisiana recently where he awaits extradition. He faces murder, arson, and aggravated assault charges. AUSTELL, Ga. (11Alive & WSB TV Atlanta) Beauty Couch was best known for her champion skating on social media to her 150,000 followers. Firefighters found her body by a torched car in Cobb…

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By Amy V. Simmons One of the main messages from all the speakers during last Saturday’s 60th Anniversary March on Washington event on DC’s National Mall was that it was not a commemoration, but a continuation. It was especially important for the elders present to emphasize to the young people present that each generation has…

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By Joey Cappelletti and Corey Williams ASSOCIATED PRESS LANSING, Mich. — A white police officer handcuffed a Black child outside his Michigan home in an “unfortunate case of ‘wrong place, wrong time,’” the Lansing Police Department said last Friday. The department posted the explanation on Facebook after cellphone video circulated on social media showing the…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Ayana Parsons, right, and Arian Simone, of Fearless Fund attend a during a news conference Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023, in New York. Attorneys for an Atlanta-based venture capital firm being sued over a grant program investing in Black women have vowed to fight back against the lawsuit calling it misguided and frivolous. (AP…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Jonesville Historic Gullah Neighborhood resident Josephine Wright stands between her home and an orange safety fence that boarders the 29-acre construction site, Tuesday, July 18, 2023, in Hilton Head Island, S.C. A Georgia-based developer’s planned 147-unit short-term rental complex that broke ground last summer. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton) By James Pollard ASSOCIATED PRESS…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Monica Lee sits outside her Braxton, Miss., home, Friday, Aug. 4, 2023, and expresses her feelings about the investigation that led to six white former Mississippi law enforcement officers pleading guilty Thursday to federal civil rights offenses against two Black men who were brutalized during a home raid that ended when an officer…

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ABOVE PHOTO: James, lays down flowers where an 8-year-old Chicago girl was killed in Portage Park, Sunday, Aug. 6, 2023. A child riding a scooter was fatally shot in the head by a man who was upset over noise, witnesses said. (Anthony Vazquez/Chicago Sun-Times via AP) ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO — A man was charged with…

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By Mark Sherman ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is reinstating a regulation aimed at reining in the proliferation of ghost guns, firearms without serial numbers that have been turning up at crime scenes across the nation in increasing numbers. The court on Tuesday voted 5-4 to put on hold a ruling from a…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Roofer Anthony Brookins poses for a photo on the porch of a friend’s home on Detroit’s westside, Friday, July 28, 2023. That home and his own home have no central air conditioning. (AP Photo/Corey Williams) By Jesse BedaynASSOCIATED PRESSDENVER — As Denver neared triple-digit temperatures, Ben Gallegos sat shirtless on his porch swatting…

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