BALCH SPRINGS, Texas (AP) — Police in suburban Dallas fired the officer Tuesday who shot and killed a black 15-year-old boy riding in a vehicle leaving a chaotic house party, taking the swift action sought by the teenager’s family and protesters who link the case to other deaths of African-Americans at the hands of law […]
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — A prosecutor was critical Monday of store surveillance footage from a new documentary about the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, calling it a heavily edited attempt to distort an incident that occurred several hours before Brown died in an encounter with a police officer. Filmmaker Jason Pollock responded by calling St. […]
MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Milwaukee Police Department is operating a stop-and-frisk program that mostly targets black and Latino residents who are often detained without cause, the American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin alleges in a lawsuit filed Wednesday. The federal lawsuit was filed on behalf of six black and Latino plaintiffs who say they’ve been […]
CHICAGO (AP) — Four Chicago police officers who were at the scene of the 2014 fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald have been suspended for failing to ensure the dashboard cameras in their squad cars were operating properly. Chicago’s Office of Inspector General recommended the firing of 11 police officers in connection with the shooting. And […]
EL CAJON, Calif. (AP) — Police shot and wounded a man they said was acting erratically in a San Diego suburb on Tuesday, drawing an angry cluster of protesters that believed it to be another instance of law enforcement shooting an unarmed black man. Several dozen people, most of them black, gathered and some cursed […]
Not that you need it, but here’s MORE proof that Colin Kaepernick‘s protesting of the national anthem is huge and getting bigger by the day. Time Magazine has placed Kaepernick on the cover of the October 1, 2016 issue. Then, knowing that they’ve got a hot one on their hands, Time decided to tweet and […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Department lawyers investigating police agencies for claims of racial discrimination and excessive force are increasingly turning up a different problem: officers’ interactions with the mentally ill. The latest example came in Baltimore, where a critical report on that department’s policies found that officers end up in unnecessarily violent confrontations with mentally […]
The charges sound foolish, but do they sound familiar? Ramsey Orta was also arrested after filming Eric Garner's death.
The Newark Riots of 1967 in New Jersey were the worst in the state’s history, ignited by racial tensions between the city’s Black residents and police officers. After the arrest and beating of a Black cab driver, citizens took to the streets and a six-day riot raged on before it was quelled by the National […]
As the nation grapples with ways to combat police-involved shootings of Blacks, New York City’s Republican ex-mayor Rudy Giuliani has a theory about why the problem exists in the first place. The former prosecutor essentially blamed Black fathers for failing to teach their children to respect law enforcement, according to The Washington Post: “If I were a black […]
Authorities say they were called to a local Taco Bell in Madison, Wisconsin, where they allegedly found Genele Laird yielding a knife.
Authorities say they were called to a local Taco Bell in Madison, Wisconsin, where they allegedly found Genele Laird yielding a knife.
