Do you live in one of the states without racial profiling laws? A new report from the NAACP finds out that 20 states don’t have laws…
It’s time to clean house in the Ferguson Police Department. Cops should be turning in their guns and badges and clearing out today. They don’t respect black people – and they don’t respect the judicial process. While a grand jury in St. Louis gathers evidence in the Michael Brown case, the deep racial divide between […]
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Authorities were searching Sunday for two men suspected of shooting and wounding a police officer in Ferguson, the St. Louis suburb where there have been angry protests since a white officer fatally shot an unarmed 18-year-old black man last month. Although there were two separate protests about the Aug. 9 […]
Actress Danièle Watts was “handcuffed and detained” by Los Angeles police officers Thursday. She and her husband explained from their Facebook pages that the incident…
U. S Attorney General Eric Holder took to the podium Thursday to offer much-anticipated details of the Department of Justice’s investigation into police conduct in…
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A 911 dispatcher is in trouble over his response to a mother who called for help after her 10-month-old son accidentally locked himself in her car, police said. Shana Dees said she put her son Jack in his car seat Saturday afternoon and when she went to move a shopping cart, […]
Think Progress reports of yet another case of policing gone wrong in America… Police were looking for a bank robber when they arrested Charles Belk on Friday night. The profile of the suspect was tall, black, and bald. And so is Belk. They were both wearing green shirts. That’s all the information they had. And […]
ERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — The fatal shooting of a black 18-year-old by a white police officer has opened a debate over what level of force is appropriate when law enforcement confronts a citizen perceived to be a threat. Here is a look at some of the issues involved when officers must decide whether to use […]
A veteran police officer has some advice for everyone in the wake of unarmed teen Michael Brown being gunned down by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. “Even though it might sound harsh and impolitic, here is the bottom line: if you don’t want to get shot, tased, pepper-sprayed, struck with a baton or thrown […]
If you were in control of a city government under siege with charges of racial profiling, police brutality and totalitarian administration, don’t you think you’d…
Reports are coming in that yet another man was shot and killed by police in St. Louis, Missouri Tuesday afternoon. The event happened just days after 18-year-old…
Police brutality is being exposed now more than ever, especially towards our black men. Often times we don’t know how to handle ourselves when dealing…
