IRVING, Texas – Lawyers for Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year-old high school student who was arrested for bringing a homemade digital clock to school that was mistaken for a bomb, are demanding $15 million in payments as well as a written apology from the Irving, Texas, mayor and chief of police.
In a legal demand from Kelly D. Hollingsworth of the Laney & Bollinger law firm, the lawyer asserts that city and school officials of further stoking the ensuing public firestorm that enveloped the boy and his family. Hollingsworth said they "lost their home" after its address was "tweet out for all the world to see."
CHICAGO (AP) — A white Chicago police officer who shot a black teenager 16 times was charged with first-degree murder Tuesday, a day before the deadline a judge set for the city to release a squad-car video of the killing that officials fear will spark unrest.
A judge denied Officer Jason Van Dyke bond at a noon hearing. About an hour later, Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez held a news conference where she defended the amount of time it took to charge the officer in the Oct. 20, 2014, killing of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald.
