police and black community

The Chicago Police Department has made a tour of the DuSable Museum of African American History part of the training requirements for new recruits. A class of 56 officers visited the venue Monday. “The one thing I can tell you after 29 years [is] if you don’t know a culture, you tend to fear it,” […]

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota police officer who pulled over Philando Castile politely told the driver that his brake lights were out and calmly instructed him not to pull out his handgun before suddenly drawing his own weapon and firing seven rounds into the car, a video released Tuesday showed. The dashboard video taken from […]

BALCH SPRINGS, Texas (AP) — The Dallas suburb where a white police officer shot and killed a black teenager as he left a party has a population that’s just 20 percent white but a police department that’s 80 percent white. Balch Springs now confronts the same issues of race and law enforcement as Ferguson, Missouri, […]

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A white former South Carolina police officer charged with murder in the shooting death of an unarmed black motorist who was running away now faces federal civil rights charges. An indictment unsealed Wednesday shows that Michael Slager is charged with violating Walter Scott‘s civil rights. He’s also charged with obstruction of […]

The Chicago Police Department seems to be working overtime to prove to the black community that they are the enemy. The latest example of that happened earlier this week after they sent an 82-year-old Black woman to the hospital after they allegedly raided the wrong home. However, CPD is not apologizing for their actions. The […]