The Latest Breaking News from Ben Crump

Family, friends and other mourners gathered at a Virginia church to remember Irvo Otieno at a funeral service

Lt. DeWayne Smith served as a supervisor on the now-deactivated SCORPION unit — the specialized police unit responsible for conducting the traffic stop that ultimately lead to Nichols' death.

Lawyer says 28-year-old’s mother ‘feels very strongly that the public should see what happened to her son’

A report showed that Rasheem Carter's head was severed and his penis potentially mutilated, while his family's attorney said teeth were missing from his skull. Yet police claimed they saw 'no foul play'

The parents of a Black man who was having a psychotic episode and died in custody last fall after Memphis jailers beat him during a confrontation are seeking answers and punishments against the jail staff

The mother of a Black man who died in police custody at a Virginia mental hospital says her son was “brilliant, creative and bright.”

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who's joined the Otieno family's legal team, called the case "shocking."

Four months have now passed since Rasheem Carter’s remains were found in a wooded area in Mississippi. Despite the Black man’s alleged fears for his life at the hands of a group of white men, his family are no closer to getting any answers over his death, reports Rachel Sharp

The family of a Mississippi man whose dismembered body was found in November said his newly released autopsy report shows he was murdered, and they called for a federal investigation into the case.