Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A sheriff's deputy in Tennessee has been suspended without pay over a Facebook post regarding a Black Lives Matter protest that led to the shutdown of Interstate 40. Shelby County sheriff's spokesman Earle Farrell told The Commercial Appeal the sheriff's office found out about the post Wednesday and took "immediate […]
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Prosecutor who quit over post about protests returns to work
Associated Press DETROIT — An assistant prosecutor in Michigan who quit last year after posting on Facebook that people assaulting police officers in Baltimore should be shot has returned to work for her former employer. Wayne County prosecutor's office spokeswoman Maria Miller said in an email Thursday that Teana Walsh returned to work as a […]
Hundreds rally in Charleston after police shootings
Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. — Charleston area residents are calling for justice following the shootings of blacks by police in Louisiana and Minnesota last week. Local media outlets report several hundred people rallied Wednesday evening at a park in downtown Charleston. After the rally broke up, a statement from police said an officer was checked […]