https://hunewsservice.com Your Neighborhood. Your Nation. Your News! Sat, 08 Mar 2025 19:29:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://hunewsservice.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/cropped-407787_352128264798897_1461219382_n-1-32x32.jpg https://hunewsservice.com 32 32 https://hunewsservice.com/news/national/supreme-court-to-deliberate-on-moment-of-threat-doctrine-in-police-use-of-force/ Fri, 31 Jan 2025 21:49:18 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/?p=18886 By Morghan Manuel Howard University News Service Washington, D.C. – Ashtian Barnes died on the side of a highway in Houston, Texas, after an officer shot and killed him during a routine traffic stop on April 28, 2016. His mother, Janice Hughes Barnes, sued the officer, arguing that his use of deadly force was unjustified and violated Ashtian’s constitutional rights. Barnes lost, but her case made it to U.S. Supreme Court, where it could have a major impact on police accountability and standards on the use of excessive force. Justices recently heard arguments from both sides of Barnes v. Felix]]> https://hunewsservice.com/news/national/jayland-walker-was-shot-over-40-times-by-akron-police-none-of-the-officers-were-indicted/ Sat, 22 Apr 2023 21:50:26 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/?p=15525   By Chrisleen Herard Howard University News Service Of the 94 bullets that flew into the air, it is unclear which one took the life of 25-year-old Jayland Walker as he ran from police in Akron, Ohio, after a traffic stop on June 27, 2022. Suffering from grazes, entrance wounds and blood loss, Walker was left on the ground dying in handcuffs. Months later, a grand jury decided not to indict any of the eight officers directly involved in his death.  “I was hopeful that one or two of them, for sure, would be indicted simply because, in my mind,]]> https://hunewsservice.com/news/national/questions-remain-in-khalil-ahmad-azads-accidental-drowning-after-police-chase/ Fri, 24 Mar 2023 22:39:10 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/?p=15399 _________________________________________________________________________ WARNING: PAGE 3 CONTAINS A GRAPHIC PHOTO WITH SIGNS OF TORTURE ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ By Chrisleen Herard Howard University News Service Khalil Ahmad Azad wanted his long-time girlfriend, Carvona Henderson, to take five pregnancy tests to make sure it was real; he was going to be a father. It was all he talked about, a moment he waited for his whole life until the early hours of July 3, 2022, when he was pulled over by police – the last time he would be seen alive.  Seven weeks later, his daughter was born. “He was just trying to do anything to]]> https://hunewsservice.com/politics/300-protesters-arrested-under-d-c-curfew/ Tue, 02 Jun 2020 18:30:33 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/?p=10442 Mayor Muriel Bowser warned protesters to be off the streets before 7 p.m. to avoid being arrested on the second day of Washington’s curfew, which coincides with the primary elections. Many citizens have voiced concerns about being able to vote without being arrested, since the polls close at 8 p.m. today, just an hour after the curfew is in effect. However, Bowser said voters, poll workers and essential employees have nothing to worry about, during a press conference this afternoon at the John A. Wilson Building. Peter Newsham, chief of the Metropolitan Police Department, said that officers arrested about 300]]> https://hunewsservice.com/uncategorized/remarks-by-president-barak-obama-in-arm-chair-discussion-on-criminal-justice-with-enforcement-leaders/ Mon, 23 Jul 2018 13:07:59 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/uncategorized/remarks-by-president-barak-obama-in-arm-chair-discussion-on-criminal-justice-with-enforcement-leaders/ https://hunewsservice.com/news/former-fbi-director-addresses-spying-on-black-activists/ Fri, 16 Feb 2018 07:56:27 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/uncategorized/former-fbi-director-addresses-spying-on-black-activists/ Photo by Kayla Irby, HUNS:  Former FBI Director James Comey (right) and Justin Hansford, executive director of the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center, discussed the FBI’s role in spying on AfricanAmerican organizations and the ongoing tension between black communities and police. WASHINGTON – Former FBI Director James Comey, speaking to Howard University students, professors and staff, this week distanced himself from an FBI report that said “black identity extremists” were responsible for “increased violence” by African-Americans against law enforcement. The report, entitled “Black Extremists Likely Motivated to Target Law Enforcement Officers,” has raised concern among many, including the 49-member Congressional]]> https://hunewsservice.com/news/cops-look-for-answers-in-policing-the-mentally-ill/ Thu, 04 May 2017 22:00:23 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/uncategorized/cops-look-for-answers-in-policing-the-mentally-ill/ DEADLY FORCE: Police and the Mentally Ill Courtesy Photo: Police across the nation are having more encounters with mentally ill residents and they admit they are not trained for it.  Consequently, more than one in four people killed by police in 2015 was mentally disabled.   More police are undergoing Crisis Intervention Training to better manage street encounters with mentally disabled residents. Taleah Everett, 20, a woman whose family members said suffers from psychotic episodes, was driving erratically two months ago near Capitol Hill in Washington, when Capitol Police, fearing a possible terrorist act, shot at her car to stop it. ]]> https://hunewsservice.com/news/heavy-police-presence-apparently-paying-off/ Thu, 21 Jul 2016 00:01:05 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/uncategorized/heavy-police-presence-apparently-paying-off/ Republican National Convention 2016 Milbert Brown, Howward University News Service: Hundreds of law enforcement officers from around the nation fill downtown Cleveland to monitor protestors during the Republican Nationl Convention.  So far, the increased force has worked. CLEVELAND – Nearly everywhere you look in downtown Cleveland during the Republican National Convention, there are cops – tall cops, short cops, fat cops, buff cops, young cops and old cops.  There are beat cops, cops on horses, cops in riot gear, cops in neon vests directing traffic and bicycle cops with body cams atop their helmets. There are cops from Illinois and]]> https://hunewsservice.com/multimedia/video/with-new-brutality-cases-calls-for-body-cameras-grow/ Thu, 16 Apr 2015 17:20:08 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/uncategorized/with-new-brutality-cases-calls-for-body-cameras-grow/ D.C. police are now wearing body cameras following the killings of unarmed black men nationally. Amidst the recent shooting deaths of black men by police officers, body cameras have become a new requirement for many law enforcement officers to wear on duty.  Howard University News Service Reporter Jacob Bennett talks with Howard students and officials about recent incidents involving officers.    ]]> https://hunewsservice.com/news/black-fraternity-police-face-million-dollar-lawsuit/ Thu, 16 Apr 2015 09:16:00 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/uncategorized/black-fraternity-police-face-million-dollar-lawsuit/ Kappa Alpha Psi Faces Hazing Accusations Kappa Alpha Psi, one of the nation's oldest and most distinguished black fraternities, is facing a multimillion dollar hazing lawsuit. MARYLAND – Harry Draughn Jr. filed a lawsuit over $2 million against Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. and its member Jesse Stewart Jr. after allegedly being hazed during the fraternity’s spring initiation process. The lawsuit filed on March 31 claims that Draughn, 45, was assaulted, paddled and beat with a cane by Stewart, who served as the dean of the intake process for the Hyattsville/Landover alumni chapter. Harry Draughn said he was beaten by]]>