Ben Crump

Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael and William “Roddy” Bryan were each found guilty on all counts in their federal hate crime trial.

Floyd Family Attorney Ben Crump spoke after former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin received the longest sentence ever for a police officer for murder in the state of Minnesota. “This should not be the exception when a Black person is killed by brutality by the police,” said Crump. “It should be the norm.”

Civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump has stood by and comforted too many families whose Black loved ones have been killed by police or civilian vigilantes — from George Floyd to Daunte Wright to Trayvon Martin. Crump joined LX News host Ashley Holt to discuss how he remains optimistic that our country will win the fight against racism.

Family and community members gathered on Thursday to remember 20-year-old Daunte Wright, who was unarmed when he was shot and killed by Minneapolis police during a traffic stop.

A Black woman who was shot by police last week in suburban Waukegan said Tuesday that officers did nothing more than cover her boyfriend with a blanket after he was shot and left him on the ground to die.

Ben Crump, the attorney for George Floyd’s family, spoke at the memorial for Floyd and called for people to stand up to evil.

The family of George Floyd says an independent autopsy has found that he died of asphyxiation from sustained pressure on his back and neck

During an impromptu prayer vigil in Minneapolis Monday, George Floyd’s brother, Terrence Floyd, condemned acts of violence committed by some during protests. “If I’m not over here whiling out, if I’m not over here blowing up stuff, if I’m not over here messing up my community—then what are y’all doing?” Floyd said.

Calls for an outside investigation into the fatal police shooting of a Kentucky emergency medical technician are growing, two months after the 26-year-old black woman was killed in her home

A white Dallas police officer who said she mistook a neighbor’s apartment for her own and fatally shot him in his living room was sentenced Wednesday to a decade in prison in a stunning courtroom scene that included the dead man’s brother and the black judge embracing the sobbing officer. People outside of the courtroom reacted angrily to the sentence...

Galveston’s police chief is apologizing after two of his officers, mounted on horseback, led a handcuffed trespassing suspect by a rope through downtown streets.

Sacramento police shot Stephon Clark seven times from behind, according to autopsy results released Friday by a pathologist hired by Clark’s family, a finding that calls into question the department’s assertion the 22-year-old black man was facing officers and moving toward them when he was killed.

The Justice Department on Tuesday announced it will not pursue federal civil rights charges against George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin three years ago. Zimmerman was acquitted of all charges in the shooting. He said that he was acting in self-defense when he killed Martin, 17, during an altercation in a gated community in Sanford, Florida. The...