Neighborhood Watch

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 […]

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — A newly-released video shows Florida neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman at the scene of Trayvon Martin's fatal shooting a day later giving police a blow-by-blow account of his fight with the teen. In a video posted on a website by Zimmerman's defense team, Zimmerman said Martin saw his gun and reached […]

“Neighborhood Watch” will now be known as just “The Watch.” Fox said Friday that the name of the film starring Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn as suburban neighborhood watch volunteers who uncover an extraterrestrial plot was changed in light of the shooting of an unarmed black teenager in Florida. “As the subject matter of this […]

A judge convicted one brother and exonerated the other Thursday in the 2010 beating of a black teenager they encountered while responding to a suspicious person report received by an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood watch group. Judge Pamela White ruled from the bench against Eliyahu and Avi Werdesheim, 24, and 22, highlighting concerns about the lack […]

The teenager who authorities said was beaten in a neighborhood watch case in Baltimore that drew comparisons with the Trayvon Martin shooting refused to testify from the witness stand on Wednesday, prompting the judge ultimately to excuse him. It’s not yet clear how the loss of the key witness will affect the prosecution’s case. Brothers […]