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PHOENIX (AP) — The deadly shooting of a black, unarmed drug suspect by a white Phoenix police officer who mistook a pill bottle for a gun demonstrates the challenges law enforcement agencies face at a time of unrest over police tactics. Phoenix police say the officer feared the suspect was armed during their struggle, but […]
NEW YORK (AP) — From the White House to the streets of some of America’s biggest cities, the New York chokehold case converged with the Ferguson shooting and investigations out of South Carolina and Cleveland to stir a national conversation Thursday about racial justice and police use of force. A day after a grand jury […]
Former Ferguson, Missouri cop, Darren Wilson (pictured), has reportedly been receiving round-the-clock protection from the national Fraternal Order of Police (FOP). The officers who are guarding…
Let the world say “duh.” We’re having a hard time not blank staring at the screen, but the President just appeared on television to admit…
ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) — A white man who was the police chief in a small South Carolina town was charged with murder Wednesday in the shooting death of an unarmed black man nearly four years ago. Richard Combs worked in Eutawville — population 300 and one-third black — when Bernard Bailey came to Town Hall […]
Trust me. we are just as upset as a lot of folks that Darren Wilson will not be held accountable for what he did. But blabbering on Facebook and posting threatening messages about killing him is just plain stupid. So why has a man (Jaleel Tariq Abdul-Jabbaar), a convicted felon, by the way, who calls […]
In he wake of the Eric Garner decision, which follows on the heels of the Michael Brown decision, CNN legal analyst Sunny Hostin, a former assistant United States attorney is having trouble reconciling the facts in the Garner case with the news that no indictment will happen. Officer Daniel Panteleo has expressed his remorse (unlike […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The widow of Eric Garner says that from the beginning she’s had no faith in prosecutors on Staten Island, the borough where a police officer placed her unarmed husband in a chokehold that resulted in his death. Esaw Garner said in an interview Thursday on NBC’s “Today” ”there was no sincerity […]
When 12-year-old Tamir Rice was shot by Cleveland police after carrying a toy gun in a playground, a Cleveland reporter looked into his parent’s past to get a sense of the child’s mindset. (Readers, understandably, were appalled let the reporter know.) Now, someone has looked into the policeman who actually did the shooting and it […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A white New York City police officer who was cleared Wednesday by a grand jury in the death of an unarmed black man says it was never his intention to harm anyone. Officer Daniel Pantaleo says he feels very bad about the death of Eric Garner and hopes Garner’s family will […]
Co-founder of Hands Up United, tapper / activist Tef Poe joined Roland Martin on “NewsOne Now” to discuss the “Hands Up Don’t Shoot” Movement. Critics of…
At only 14-years-old, Wasilat Tasi’u is a child bride and now she’s a convicted murderer. Tasi’u killed her thirty-five year husband Umar Sani as a desperate…
