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The Justice Department is separately investigating the Kansas City Police Department over its employment practices following a Star investigation in 2022 that found KCPD’s Black officers face ...
Former Kansas City police detective Eric DeValkenaere and his legal team hear his sentence at the conclusion of his sentencing hearing Friday, May 4, 2022. DeValkenaere was sentenced to six years ...
Felix Lindsey "Pete" O'Neal, Jr. (born 1940), is the former chairman of the Kansas City chapter of the Black Panther Party in the late 1960s. [1] He led implementation of many free programs, such as providing free breakfast to children around the city.
On June 28, 2010, The Washington Times published a guest commentary by Adams in which Adams accused the Justice Department of racial bias by dropping the New Black Panthers case. [19] Subsequently, Adams accused Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez of lying under oath in investigative hearings before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. [ 5 ]
The latest data shows the department continues to fail at reflecting the racial makeup of the community, with 11.6% of its officers identifying as Black in a city that is 26% Black, according to a ...
Black Panther Party leaders Huey P. Newton, Eldridge Cleaver, and Bobby Seale spoke on a 10-point program they wanted from the administration which was to include full employment, decent housing and education, an end to police brutality, and black people to be exempt from the military. Black Panther Party members are shown as they marched in ...
Golubski, who retired in 2010 after 35 years with the Kansas City Police Department, pleaded not guilty to six counts of deprivation of civil rights.Federal investigators said the case was related ...
Before the march, McDowell and Kansas City Missouri Mayor Ilus W. Davis took part in a televised forum with local civil rights leaders. The march proceeded as planned at 1:30pm, with between 5,000 and 15,000 in attendance.