TOWSON, Md. (AP) — The ex-girlfriend of the man who ambushed two NYPD officers screamed for help after she was shot, banged on a neighbor’s door and said: “I can’t die like this, please please help me,” according to the neighbor who said she saw the woman and called for help. Yevette Seay told The […]
R&B legend Jaheim’s song, “Florida” appeared on Youtube over a year ago, in September 2013, in response to the death of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin at the hands of a trigger-happy neighborhood watchman. Now, in the wake of massive responses to the non-indictments of killers of Eric Garner and Mike Brown, it rings just a […]
DECATUR, Ga. (AP) — Two police officers were shot in a gun battle Friday morning near the eastern edge of Atlanta, leaving one suspect hospitalized in critical condition, police said. A second suspect was captured late Friday morning after an hours-long search involving dozens of officers, police dogs and helicopters. Both officers were taken to hospitals with […]
Rapper Beanie Sigel has been shot in South Jersey, according to NBC10 Philadelphia. The rapper was shot at about 9:30 this morning (Dec. 5) around the 800 block of Spruce Avenue in Pleasantville, New Jersey, police tell NBC10. Sigel — born Dwight E. Grant — was released from Pennsylvania’s Federal Correctional Institution, Schuylkill in August […]
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 […]
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 […]
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Police say towing business owner Jody Lee Hunt fatally shot four people — one who owned a competing company and another who filed a domestic violence case against him — and then himself Monday, but officials have yet to piece together clues as to why he went on the spree. During […]
What happens if the tables were turned? Inspired by the deaths of unarmed youth and men like Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Oscar Grant and Sean Bell (to name a few)- actor Nate Parker has released a powerful short film that depicts how the interactions between the police and African-Americans is often blurred and mishandled because […]
BOSTON (AP) — A judge on Tuesday agreed to delay the trial of former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez in the 2012 slaying of two Boston men after his lawyer said Hernandez’s defense team is busy trying to prepare for his trial in a 2013 killing. In the 2012 case, Hernandez is charged with […]
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — A grand jury has decided not to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in the death of Michael Brown, the unarmed, black 18-year-old whose fatal shooting sparked weeks of sometimes-violent protests. St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Bob McCulloch announced the decision Monday evening. A grand jury of nine whites and three […]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida State University police fatally shot a gunman at the campus library early Thursday in a shooting that left three students wounded as hundreds studying inside the library fled or took cover in panic. Officers confronted the gunman and ordered him to drop his weapon, but he fired one shot at […]
CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — Attorneys for the family of Michael Brown are urging restraint by both protesters and police once a grand jury decides whether the suburban St. Louis officer who shot him should face charges. Attorneys Anthony Gray and Benjamin Crump held a press conference Thursday outside the St. Louis County Justice Center, where […]
