Pillowcase Murders (2024), directed by Randy Ferrell, Texas Crew Productions. Pillowcase Murders is a three-part documentary currently streaming on Paramount + that tells the story of Billy Chemirmir, a black man who murdered more than 20 elderly white people in the Dallas, Texas, area from 2016 to 2018. His murders all followed the same pattern:... Read More

In 2021, I covered the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd, for American Renaissance. Now, a documentary about the trial and the effects of Floyd’s death on policing in Minneapolis has been released. The Fall of Minneapolis was produced by investigative reporter Liz Collin, who based the... Read More

The three white men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery filed appeals on March 3, 2023. The men are trying to overturn only their convictions — and life sentences — for federal hate crimes, not the life sentences they received for murder under state law. Ironically, they are appealing the very same judge who forced them... Read More

New York City is paying out nearly $1.8 billion to black and Hispanic teachers who were unable to pass a test that was required for them to get a New York State teacher’s license. Thus far, more than half of the plaintiffs in this decades-old class action suit have won compensatory damages; Silvia Alvarez was... Read More

On August 8 in Brunswick, Georgia, U.S. District Court Judge Lisa Godbey Wood handed down life sentences for federal hate crimes to the father and son who were convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery. After the state-court criminal trial that took place in November 2021, Travis McMichael, 35, and his father Gregory McMichael, 66, were both... Read More

Actor Jussie Smollett is now officially a hate crime hoaxer; a jury in Chicago’s Cook County found him guilty of five out of six charges of disorderly conduct for lying to police, including two charges specifically for claiming to be a victim of a hate crime. Mr. Smollett was an unknown actor when he was... Read More

On Tuesday, the jury heard opening statements in Wisconsin v. Kyle Rittenhouse, one of the most closely watched criminal cases likely to be tried this year. Here are the events that led up to the case, and a point-by-point summary of the arguments both sides will make. In August 2020, a Kenosha, Wisconsin police officer... Read More

Court began with discussions outside the presence of the jury. Derek Chauvin’s lawyer, Eric Nelson, objecting to the prosecution’s plan to call another use-of-force expert. He said it would only be repetition of what other witnesses have said. Earlier, Judge Peter Cahill cautioned prosecutors about “cumulative” witnesses, and said he would not let them bring... Read More