I cringed while watching looters on national television smash store windows, stuff pillow cases with stolen goods, and run unrepentant into the Missouri night. For the second straight evening, police in riot gear barricaded streets and fired rubber bullets and tear gas into an angry crowd of protestors to break up the chaos that has […]
New York’s City’s top cop went on a media blitz to deny that NYPD officers are singling out minorities in a crackdown on minor offenses.…
I’m trying to understand why Michael Brown is lying dead from a police officer’s bullet instead of packing his bags and heading to college. Brown, 18, was killed last Saturday in what could be called the war against young Black men – the escalating confrontations between police and African American males, a fierce war that […]
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — A candlelight vigil for an unarmed black man who was fatally shot by a suburban St. Louis police officer was followed by unrest as crowds looted and burned stores, vandalized vehicles and taunted officers who tried to block access to parts of the city. Streets in Ferguson upended on Sunday night […]
The NYPD officers who shot and killed 16-year-old Kimani Gray will not face criminal charges, reports the Daily News. RELATED: Principal Of Slain Brooklyn Teen Pens…
When will New York City police realize that chokeholds are outlawed and stop using the deadly tactic on unsuspecting black citizens? Days after Eric Garner, a Black father, died when New York cops put him in a tragic chokehold, New York police used the lethal method on a pregnant Black woman in a dispute over […]
Rosan Miller, 27, a 7-month pregnant woman from Brooklyn, was allegedly placed in a chokehold by an NYPD officer over a dispute about her grilling…
NEW YORK (AP) — An overflow crowd packed a church and sang songs on Wednesday at the funeral of a man who died in police custody after an officer placed him in an apparent chokehold. Eric Garner’s relatives stopped in front of his open casket, some weeping and wailing. A preacher opened the service at […]
07/23/14 -in his weekly commentary on the Tom Joyner Morning Show, Reverend Al Sharpton discusses the latest surrounding the death of Eric Garner.
Eric Garner, 43, was killed Thursday after being placed in an illegal chokehold by the NYPD and filmmaker Spike Lee has drawn a chilling comparison…
EW YORK (AP) — Eric Garner was a familiar figure on the streets near Staten Island’s ferry docks: to his friends, a congenial giant with a generous gesture or a calming word; to police, a persistent face of the small-time crime of selling loose, untaxed cigarettes. Garner’s last run-in with police spiraled into a confrontation […]
