A judge just declared that 84-year-old Andrew Lester must stand trial for shooting and injuring now 17-year-old Ralph Yarl. Lester telling 911 he was in fear of a “tall Black man” trying to break into his home confirmed everything we knew already: Yarl was racially profiled.
Rockford Police Officer Bradley Lauer will NOT be criminally charged for his use of force against a 14-year-old Rockford student in 2021. Lauer slammed the Auburn High School student’s head on the floor, fracturing their skull.
“You’re trying to intimidate,” former-board member Michael Connor said to Stange after he swung at him outside of the meeting. Now, the lawsuit alleges that the school board tried to intimidate Moore’s family to get them not to sue.