The case ignited widespread outrage and further strained long-standing tensions between the community and law enforcement. "Our emotions are everywhere," said Laquanda Jacobs, who was exonerated through the Midwest Innocence Project, while preparing to join other advocates on a bus from Kansas City, Kansas, to Topeka.

Some Republican senators, who will consider his nomination to be defense secretary, shrugged off the accusations and defended him.

A white Kansas City, Kansas, police detective who’s accused of sexually assaulting Black women and girls and terrorizing those who tried to fight back is facing trial this week

A white Kansas City, Kansas, police detective who is accused of sexually assaulting Black women and girls and terrorizing those who tried to fight back is facing trial this week

Prosecutors say female residents of poor neighborhoods in Kansas City, Kansas, feared he’d demand sexual favors and threaten to harm or jail their relatives.

Roger Golubski is charged with six felony counts of violating women's civil rights, and jury selection in his trial is set to begin Monday in a federal courthouse in Topeka.

A disgraced Kansas cop killed himself hours before he was due to stand trial for raping black women. Roger Golubski, 71, was found dead Monday morning after failing to show up to watch jury selection at his trial in Topeka.