LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is investigating the fatal shooting of an armed man by deputies summoned to the scene after 911 calls reporting he was pointing the weapon at people and firing shots into the air. ____ WHAT HAPPENED? Several alarmed people told 911 dispatchers that they saw a […]
Why did Freddie Gray die from a severed spine while in police custody? His family desperately wants an answer. Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake says she wants an answer, too. And, as a journalist who writes far too often about Black men being killed disproportionately by police, I’d also like to know what happened to Gray. In […]
A white South Carolina police officer was charged with murder on Tuesday after a newly surfaced video showed him fatally shooting an unarmed black man in…
Over a thousand people poured into a Wisconsin high school auditorium on Saturday to say goodbye to 19-year-old Tony Terrell Robinson Jr. On March 6, an unarmed Robinson…
A police officer in New Rochelle, Ny was caught on video drawing his gun on a group of black teenagers having a snowball fight. An…
The war on black men continues. It’s the crisis in America that gets swept under the rug even though the tally of black men who are shot by police is growing at an alarming rate. There are no congressional hearings; no national town hall meetings, and no prime-time special reports on cable television. While co-hosting […]
