Police officers in Ferguson, Missouri, have begun wearing body cameras after weeks of unrest over the shooting death of an unarmed black teen by a white officer and sharply differing accounts of the incident, officials said on Sunday.
On Tuesday, Araceli Rodriguez and the American Civil Liberties Union said in a press conference that the Border Police, or at least one of time, violated the law for shooting her son to death while he was merely walking across a major street in Mexico parallel to the US border. The minor was shot at least eight times.
Advocates are alarmed about the progress of the Mississippi Religious Freedom Restoration Act in the state chamber, of which is expected to take effect July 1 after the state governor signs it into law.
The US Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of a Supreme Court decision rejecting the claims made by American Civil Liberties Union that the California law on DNA collection, Mercury News said.
The Associated Press quoted one of the complainants, Nancy Tarsitano Drake, who said that the city of Evansville violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment by allowing a church-sponsored public art installation of 31 plastic crosses.
The rap-metal duo Insane Clown Posse, and four of their fans, sued the U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday concerning a FBI report, which described their fans, known as the Juggalos, as a dangerous gang, The Associated Press. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) "filed the lawsuit on behalf of the group's two members, Joseph Bruce, or Violent J, and Joseph Utsler, or Shaggy 2 Dope. It also names four fans as plaintiffs,"
