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 […]
As we reported earlier, former NBA player and now broadcaster Charles Barkley has basically come out against the prevailing sentiment in the black community regarding the Ferguson grand jury’s decision to not indict former police office Darren Wilson for the shooting death of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown. Barkley went on Philadelphia’s 97.5 Fanatic radio […]
A Staten Island grand jury on Wednesday cleared a New York Police Department officer in the chokehold death of Eric Garner (pictured right), the unarmed…
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 […]
Rev. Al Sharpton talked to the Tom Joyner Morning Show about the lack of indictment in the case of Eric Garner in Staten Island and admitted he wasn’t surprised by the ruling. “No I really wasn’t. Local state grand jury have to deal with local police everyday. That’s why you need federal prosecutors that […]
“An eye for an eye leaves the whole word blind.”- Mahatma Ghandi Alicia Keys has shared a stirring new video in the wake of a…
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 […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A grand jury cleared a white New York City police officer Wednesday in the videotaped chokehold death of an unarmed black man who had been stopped on suspicion of selling loose, untaxed cigarettes, a lawyer for the victim’s family said. The decision in Staten Island not to indict Officer Daniel Pantaleo […]
Nearly a week after fallout from a grand jury’s decision in the fatal police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., a panel in…
After a Staten Island jury deciding not to indict Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo for the death of Eric Garner, a discussion surrounding whites arrested has…
After a Staten Island jury deciding not to indict Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo for the death of Eric Garner, a discussion surrounding whites arrested has…
