Family and attorneys see "brutal treatment" meted out to 28-year-old Irvo Otieno in footage, a case that marks the latest example of a Black man's in-custody death in America.
Deputies in Virginia state charged with second-degree murder in death of Irvo Otieno, who US media say may have died from asphyxiation as he was being smothered on ground by officers.
Sheldon Thomas convicted over 2004 murder is found innocent as prosecutors establish he had been intentionally misidentified by police officers using a photo of another person with the same name.
White cartoonist calls Black Americans a "hate group" and suggests white Americans "get the hell away from Black people", sparking fury on social media.
Advocacy group Anti-Defamation League labels 25 of last year's murders as "extremist-related," with 18 of those "committed in whole or part for ideological motives."
Black man Nichols will be eulogised by Reverend Al Sharpton while family members of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, who were killed by police in Louisville, Kentucky, and Minneapolis in 2020, will also attend funeral.
Relatives accuse Memphis city police officers of beating Tyre Nichols during a traffic stop in southern Tennessee state, causing him to have cardiac arrest and kidney failure.
Officials initially said Ronald Greene died driving his car but body-camera footage that was eventually made public revealed white officers dragging, beating and stunning Greene whose 2019 death fuelled a national debate over police brutality.
DNA evidence proves innocence of Maurice Hastings in the abduction and killing of Roberta Wydermyer in 1983, with California state officials saying the real killer died in 2020.
US President Biden calls on Americans to speak out against racism and extremism during "United We Stand Summit", and vows to ask Congress to do more to hold social media firms accountable for spreading hate.
Alexander McClay Williams, 16, was convicted in 1931 by a white jury for murdering a white woman, but Pennsylvania state court, after decades of lobbying by his only surviving sister, finds Williams innocent and wrongly convicted.
Thomas Lane pleads guilty to a state charge of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in the killing of George Floyd, a week before the two-year anniversary of the case.
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