police brutality

For those who might wonder why a Black honor student would carry a gun, Carlos Ball eloquently explained the dual realities that exist for many…

Tremaine McMillan, 14, was tackled to the ground and choked by Miami-Dade Police officers because they claim the teen gave them a “dehumanizing stare,” reports…

A Bronx judge threw out the manslaughter indictment against NYPD police officer Richard Haste, who fatally shot 18-year-old Ramarley Graham last year, over an error…

New Orleans police officer Joshua Colclough, 28 (pictured left),  has been charged with manslaughter for the fatal shooting of 20-year-old, unarmed Wendall Allen (pictured right),…

On May 2, 1963 a large crowd of black teens came rushing through the doors of the 16th Street Baptist Church in protest of Bull Connors‘ election and the growing discrimination in Birmingham. The strategy to combat the racist policy and associated deaths was labeled as Project C (for Confrontation). This strategy would include the […]

SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle Police Chief John Diaz retired Monday as his department faces a court-overseen monitoring plan to address the use of force by officers. The announcement came after difficult negotiations led the Police Department to enter a court agreement with the U.S. Justice Department last summer to address concerns that officers were too […]

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The head of Albuquerque’s embattled police department says he’s retiring after an eight-year tenure marred by a spike in fatal police shootings and excessive force cases that critics blamed on a departmental culture that fostered brutality. Chief Ray Schultz‘s announcement on Friday comes five months after the U.S. Department of Justice […]

COOPERTOWN, Tenn. (AP) — A police chief hired to rebuild a tiny Tennessee department dismantled by scandal is using a lie-detector test to keep racists off his force. Coopertown Police Chief Shane Sullivan took over the department in November, becoming the 11th chief in as many years. He was hired on the heels of a […]

CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago City Council committee preliminarily approved settlements Tuesday in two police misconduct cases that would cost the city nearly $33 million, including $22.5 million for a California woman that apparently would be the largest payout to a single such plaintiff in the city’s history. The full City Council is expected to […]

A Chicago man has vowed to hold law enforcement officials accountable in the death of his son who, the man said, was crying out for help and instead was given a death sentence. Philip Coleman died in police custody on Dec. 13 after being tasered twice by police a day after he was arrested near […]

Chicago police officer Gildardo Sierra, 32, admitted that he drank “multiple beers” before killing Flint Farmer in June, 2011 and has settled a civil lawsuit…

HOUSTON (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department is investigating six cases over the last two years in which Houston police officers fatally shot or allegedly used excessive force against unarmed individuals, police officials said Wednesday. One case involves the September shooting death of Brian Claunch, 45, a mentally ill one-armed, one-legged man in a wheelchair. […]