BARDSTOWN, Ky. — White House border czar Tom Homan defended Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s plan to give officers gloves that deliver painful electric shocks, calling them a tool to help officers end confrontations without using deadly force. “It’s another device to help someone get compliant when they are not,” Homan said Thursday in an interview
NEW YORK — A federal civil rights agency is dropping a subpoena enforcement action against Nike, saying the company has complied with requests for information as part of an investigation into the sportswear giant’s diversity and inclusion policies. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed the motion to dismiss in Missouri federal court Wednesday, seven months
Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s plan to give officers gloves that deliver painful electric shocks faced criticism Wednesday from Democratic elected officials and civil rights advocates, who called it unnecessary and cruel. ICE plans to spend between $10 million and $20 million to outfit officers and agents with “conductive distraction and de-escalation devices,” according to a
WASHINGTON — A former Southern Poverty Law Center official has been charged in the Department of Justice’s broader criminal case against the Alabama-based civil rights group, a lawyer for the ex-official said Wednesday. Heidi Beirich, a political extremism expert who served as the law center’s chief financial officer, was expected to make her initial court
MADISON, Wisconsin.- The Madison police officer who shot and killed Corey Ruiz on a busy street should face criminal charges, civil rights attorney Ben Crump said Friday, after angry protests erupted over videos showing the fight. “Not only did they take him down, not only did they Taser him, not only did they kick him,
OCEAN SPRINGS, Mississippi. — The family of Nolan Xavier Wells is still searching for answers about what exactly led to the 18-year-old elite athlete’s death during a Fourth of July boat trip with friends on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Although Wells traveled by boat with his friends to Horn Island, he did not return to