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BALTIMORE (AP) — The latest on the trial of a police officer accused in the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who suffered a spinal injury in the back of a transport van (all times local): 12:35 p.m. A Baltimore jury has heard a videotaped statement of Officer William Porter acknowledging he didn’t […]
Jacque Reid goes Inside Her Story with Rev. Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth about her support of Donald Trump, most noticeably during his meeting with black Pastors. “This is not the first meeting he’s had with pastors that’s why I’m a little surprised people are acting so dramatic. I think the people that have come out and said […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama jumpstarted the holiday season Thursday, lighting the National Christmas Tree but also appealing to Americans to “come together as brothers and sisters” one day after 14 people were shot to death in Southern California. “This is of course the most wonderful time of the year, but we would be […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Community activists and San Francisco’s public defender questioned Thursday the police response to reports of a stabbing that ended in the suspect’s fatal shooting, which was partially captured on video by a bystander. Officers shot Mario Woods, 26, several times Wednesday after he ignored commands to drop a knife, San Francisco […]
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — More than two weeks after protesters built an encampment outside a Minneapolis police station to protest the fatal shooting of a black man by police, officers moved in early Thursday to tear it down and evict the demonstrators. Officers ordered around 50 chanting demonstrators to disperse about 4 a.m., and soon began […]
Screw the rules of discrimination. And to hell with the rules of accountability. One employer is ignoring both at once by rescinding a job offer he made to a recent university graduate using her hairstyle as the reason why she can’t work at the company; and blaming that reason on what “clients” want or, in […]
BALTIMORE (AP) — Officer William Porter did nothing to help Freddie Gray as he lay helpless on the floor of a Baltimore police transport van complaining that he couldn’t breathe and pleading for a medic, prosecutors said. But defense attorneys painted a wholly different portrait of the young officer during opening statements Wednesday in one […]
CHICAGO (AP) — A police dash-cam video that captures a white Chicago officer fatally shooting a black teenager 16 times has no sound, nor do videos from four other squad cars at the scene. But department protocol indicates all the cruisers should have been recording audio that night. The silence is almost sure to figure […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton on Wednesday called for a federal investigation into the shooting death of a black teen by a white Chicago police officer — an incident that has entangled Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, a one-time aide in Bill Clinton’s White House. The recent release of squad-car video showing the […]
Images surfaced of Chicago police officers viewing Burger King footage, which reportedly shows the moments before Laquan McDonald's death.
Officer William Porter (pictured) is the first of six officers to go on trial in the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who died after suffering a spinal injury in custody. —- BALTIMORE (AP) — The latest on the trial of a police officer accused in the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old […]
A high school basketball player told reporters the coach would place his hand on her shoulders and other places, gestures she never experienced with their previous coach.
