Source: Al Seib / Getty Come, go back with me to Los Angeles, March 16, 1991. It’s barely two weeks after the videotaped beating of Rodney King. 15-year-old Latasha Harlins stops inside a convenience store with money in her hand. She tries to buy a bottle of orange juice as she is profiled by the […]
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Source: South Carolina State Rep. Todd Rutherford / South Carolina State Rep. Todd Rutherford The family of Cyrus Carmack-Belton was “shocked” by the not guilty verdict handed down on June 2 as the shooting trial of Chikei Rick Chow came to a close. The former Shell gas station owner, 61, was acquitted of the 2023 […]
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Source: South Carolina State Rep. Todd Rutherford / South Carolina State Rep. Todd Rutherford The Asian convenience store owner who shot and killed 14-year-old Cyrus Carmack-Belton in Columbia, South Carolina, in 2023, has been acquitted of murder. Cyrus was accused of shoplifting, while having a pistol in his possession that authorities said he never threatened […]
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