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Enlarge / Flint Mayor Karen Weaver, pictured, called the award “just disrespectful.” (credit: Getty | Bill Pugliano) Health officials in Michigan this week honored Dr. Eden Wells with the state’s top award for an eminent career in public health—despite that Wells is currently facing several charges in connection with the Flint water crisis, including involuntary […]
Enlarge / A woman walks into the Uber Corporate Headquarters building in San Francisco, California on February 05, 2018. (credit: JOSH EDELSON/AFP/Getty Images) A now-former Uber driver who struck a San Francisco family with his car on December 31, 2013—killing a six-year-old girl named Sophia Liu in the process—was convicted of vehicular manslaughter on August […]
A French policeman who fatally shot a black man during a brawl with officers has been charged with manslaughter. The man’s death has led to an outbreak of violence, with riots extending into their fourth day on Saturday. Read more Tensions continue to run high in Nantes, a city in western France where a 22-year-old […]
Enlarge / Swatting suspect Tyler Barriss depicted in a 2015 mug shot released by Glendale police. (credit: Glendale Police Department) A Los Angeles man accused of making a hoax phone call that led to the death of an innocent man in Wichita, Kansas, has been charged with involuntary manslaughter. 25-year-old Tyler Barriss was arrested in […]
Some police forces and prosecutors argue that dealers should be held partly responsible for overdose deaths if they knowingly sold the potent opioid fentanyl to customers. CBC | Health News
Published time: 27 Jul, 2017 23:48 Police investigating London’s Grenfell Tower disaster, in which 80 people were killed in rapidly spreading fire, have sent a letter to survivors and families of victims saying there are “reasonable grounds” to suspect it was a case of corporate manslaughter. READ MORE: Grenfell fire survivors demand resignation of new […]
Enlarge / Poster above water fountains warn against drinking the water at Flint Northwestern High School in Flint, Michigan. (credit: Getty | JIM WATSON) Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette charged five public officials with involuntary manslaughter on Wednesday in connection to the ongoing Flint water crisis. Those charged include the state’s director of Health and […]
Enlarge / Michelle Carter faces involuntary manslaughter charges for texts prosecutors say encouraged a 17-year-old boy to commit suicide. (credit: WCVB 5) An involuntary manslaughter trial began Tuesday for a Massachusetts woman who as a teen texted her boyfriend and urged him to commit suicide. The woman, Michelle Carter, faces a maximum 20-year prison term if convicted […]
Clark County Detention Center via AP (Reuters) – A white police officer in Las Vegas was arrested on Monday and charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of a black man held in a chokehold for more than a minute, officials said. Officer Kenneth Lopera was charged on the same day the Clark County Coroner’s […]
Published time: 25 Mar, 2017 18:13 A Louisiana police officer who fired 14 shots at a father and his six-year-old autistic son, killing the child, has been found guilty of manslaughter. Derrick Stafford fired on Chris Few and his son Jeremy Mardis after a car chase in November. Stafford, 33, was found guilty of manslaughter […]
