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Virginia’s top prosecutor announced Monday that the state has launched a civil rights investigation into a disturbing traffic stop in which a now-fired police officer pepper-sprayed a Black and ...
Justin Edward Fairfax (born February 17, 1979) [2] [3] is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 41st lieutenant governor of Virginia from 2018 to 2022. A member of the Democratic Party, he is the second African-American elected statewide in Virginia, following Douglas Wilder.
The Rutherford Institute is a public interest law firm dedicated to the defense of civil liberties, human rights, and religious liberties.Based in Charlottesville, Virginia, the non-profit organization's motto is "It's our job to make the government play by the rules of the Constitution."
Demands included the release the department's line-item budget for the last five fiscal years, for the university to sever ties with the Richmond Police Department, to redirect all police monies to mental health services, and to actively ban the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from entering the campus.
Overall, there were 177,060 crimes reported in 2014 in Virginia, including 338 murders and homicides. [1] In 2012 Virginia had the 3rd-lowest rape rate by state after New Jersey and New York. [1] [2] The state has significantly lower crime rates than demographically similar neighboring states Maryland, North Carolina, and Tennessee. [3]
Northam's 1981 VMI yearbook photograph showing the nickname, "Coonman" The situation involved the position of the Governor of Virginia, as well as the two positions (Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General) that directly follow in the gubernatorial order of succession, with widespread bipartisan calls for resignations having the potential for a state constitutional crisis.
Gainesville Police Department Chief Lonnie Scott, right, gives a bouquet of roses to Rosa B. Williams, left, during the October meeting Wednesday of the Black on Black Crime Task Force. Williams ...
Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., has lost his primary recount, a Virginia court certified on Thursday, cementing his narrow defeat to GOP state Sen. John McGuire.