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On January 7, 2023, Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old black man, was fatally injured by five black police officers in Memphis, Tennessee, and died three days later.The officers, all members of the Memphis Police Department (MPD) SCORPION [a] unit, pulled Nichols from his car before pepper spraying and tasering him.
A wave of civil unrest in the United States, initially triggered by the murder of George Floyd during his arrest by Minneapolis police officers on May 25, 2020, led to protests and riots against systemic racism in the United States, [8] [9] including police brutality and other forms of violence. [10]
His story was the subject of the Showtime docuseries "Boys in Blue", released in 2023. [216] A jury convicted Fohrenkam of second-degree murder after a three-day trial in January 2023. [217] In February 2023, he was sentenced to 38.5 years in prison; he will not be eligible for supervised release for 25 years. [218] [219]
Skip to main content. America’s largest LGBT+ civil rights group issues ‘state of emergency’ across US
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From the Alex Murdaugh double murder trial to an arrest in the Gilgo Beach murders, 2023 had more than its share of true crime news. Here are seven high-profile cases that dominated the headlines ...
Warren K. Leffler's photograph of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom at the National Mall. Beginning with the murder of Emmett Till in 1955, photography and photographers played an important role in advancing the civil rights movement by documenting the public and private acts of racial discrimination against African Americans and the nonviolent response of the movement.
The following notable deaths in the United States occurred in 2023.Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order as set out in WP:NAMESORT.A typical entry reports information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth and subsequent nationality (if applicable), what subject was noted for, year of birth (if known), and reference.