St. Louise Cop Posses For Picture With Dead Body of Black Manblackmainstreet.net - BMS Admin A St. Louis mother is demanding answers, after a photo of a police officer posing next to the body of her recently deceased son has surfaced. On …
Latino News Inside 100 million police traffic stops: New evidence of racial biasNBC News - Erik OrtizStanford researchers found that black and Latino drivers were stopped more often than white drivers, based on less evidence of wrongdoing. Three years ago, an unmarked police car tailed Richard Jackson
Assault on 'Empire' actor Jussie Smollett serves as reminder — lynching, noose symbolism still prevalentUSA TODAY - Elizabeth WeiseIn 2018, a black supervisor at a GM plant in Ohio reported five nooses hung in his work area over several months. One of his white staffers told him, "back in the day, you would have been buried with shovel."
Graphic video of White Corrections officer handcuffing 4 prisoners to table so White supremacist prisoner can stab themhiphopoverload.com This video is so sad and disturbing! In the video you can see four black prisoners handcuffed to a table by a white corrections officer so a white …
'It Hurts': Ohio Bank Calls Police on Black Man Cashing First Checknewsweek.com - Kashmira Gander A bank has apologized after a clerk called police on a black man trying to cash his paycheck. Paul McCowns visited Huntington bank at the Giant Eagle …
Play button ‘Toxic Masculinity Has Deformed and Destroyed Our Men’The Atlantic - Emily Buder “Even if I beat her, she was mine. There was nothing she could do about it.”
Woman who accused man of rape outraged he got no jail timeAssociated Press - By RYAN TARINELLI, Associated PressDALLAS (AP) — A Texas judge on Monday accepted a plea bargain allowing a former Baylor University student accused of raping a woman at a fraternity party to avoid serving jail time, marking at least the
Charlottesville Jury Convicts 'Unite The Right' Protester Who Killed WomanNPR - Vanessa RomoUpdated at 7:07 p.m. ET James Alex Fields Jr., who rammed his car into a crowd of counterprotesters during a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., last year was found guilty on Friday of killing
L.A. County sheriff's sex crimes investigator arrested on suspicion of raping minorLos Angeles Times - By Richard Winton and Maya LauA Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy assigned to handle sensitive sex abuse crimes, often involving vulnerable minors, has been arrested on suspicion of raping a 14-year-old girl in a case he was investigating.
Rape suspects walk free. Victims don’t get justice. And police get to count it as a successrevealnews.org - Bernice Yeung Reported by Mark Greenblatt, Mark Fahey, Emily Harris and Bernice Yeung This story is a collaboration with Newsy and ProPublica. Andy Leisher didn’t …
Cops are almost never prosecuted and convicted for use of forceVox - German LopezPolice are very rarely prosecuted for shootings — and not just because the law allows them wide latitude to use force on the job. Sometimes the investigations fall onto the same police department the is
Suspect arrested in shooting death of sailor who stopped to help motorist on San Diego highway: reportFox News - Edmund DeMarcheAuthorities in San Diego said on Sunday that they took a suspect into custody in connection with the shooting death of a Navy sailor who stopped to help a motorist who appeared stranded along a Southern
A Brutal Lynching And A Possible Confession, Decades LaterNPR - Wade GoodwynOn Aug. 28, 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till was gruesomely lynched in the small town of Money, Miss. He was a boy from Chicago, visiting his relatives. Although the case is now 63 years old, a recent book
Larry Krasner’s Campaign to End Mass IncarcerationThe New Yorker - Jennifer GonnermanPhiladelphia’s District Attorney reinvents the role of the modern prosecutor. Until Larry Krasner entered the race for District Attorney of Philadelphia last year, he had never prosecuted a case. He began
Video shows Florida officer hitting 14-year-old twice during arrestCNN - By Amir Vera, CNN(CNN) — A viral video of a police officer hitting a 14-year-old girl during an arrest has caused outrage in a Florida community. The video -- posted to Instagram on Friday -- shows a girl being held down
Police Dashcam Video Reveals California Cop Brutally Punched Drunk ManHuffPost - Matt FernerThen, a later video appears to show the officer fabricating details in an attempt to justify his use of excessive force. LOS ANGELES ― Two police dashcam videos cast doubt on the charges against an Orange
For the first time in 25 years New York City didn't have a single shooting over the weekendCNN - by Evan Simko-Bednarski, CNN(CNN) — For the first time in at least a quarter-century, New York City made it through a weekend without anyone getting shot. From Friday, October 12, through Sunday, October 14, not one shooting was
How an 1851 law is being used to deny liability in duck boat tragedy that killed 17USA TODAY - Mark AlesiaINDIANAPOLIS – The Indiana woman who lost nine family members in the sinking of a duck boat in Missouri over the summer, expressed outrage at a court filing Monday by two companies facing multiple lawsuits
Columbus PD says video of officer stopping two black boys with BB gun serves as 'lesson'NBC News - Elisha Fieldstadt"This is getting kids killed all over the country," Officer Peter Casuccio tells an 11-year-old and a 13-year-old after stopping them on Saturday. The Columbus, Ohio, Police Department on Monday released
Civil rights attorneys settle lawsuit accusing court of improperly suspending poor people's driver's licensesLos Angeles Times - Alene TchekmedyianCivil rights lawyers have settled a lawsuit accusing the Los Angeles Superior Court of improperly ordering driver’s license suspensions for people who couldn’t afford to pay their traffic ticket fines,
Man accused of strangling model told cops they fought over cocaineNew York Post - By Associated Press ARDMORE, Pa. — A man accused in the strangulation death of a model said that he went to her apartment in an affluent Philadelphia suburb to sell her …
Chicago Police Officer Found Guilty Of 2nd-Degree Murder Of Laquan McDonaldNPRUpdated 6:33 p.m. ET White Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke has been found guilty of second-degree murder in the shooting death of black teenager Laquan McDonald. It took the jury of eight women four
White Woman Arrested After Harassing Two Hispanic Women, Telling Them to 'Learn English'Complex - Sarah Jasmine Montgomery This week, a viral video of a woman stepping in to defend two strangers being harassed made its rounds on the internet. In Colorado, an older white …
San Francisco police targeted only black residents in drug arrests, lawsuit claimsGuardian US - Sam Levin in San FranciscoACLU says the arrests of 37 people for selling small amounts of drugs part of a pattern of racial profiling in the department San Francisco police exclusively targeted black residents during undercover
L.A. County sheriff's sergeant and three deputies placed on leave pending investigationLos Angeles Times - Maya LauA Los Angeles County sheriff’s sergeant and three deputies have been placed on paid administrative leave as part of an internal investigation into an incident last week. Sgt. Mike Hernandez and deputies
Michelle Carter, woman convicted in suicide texting case, committed no crime, lawyer arguesFox News - Samuel ChamberlainA woman convicted of involuntary manslaughter after she sent text messages encouraging her suicidal boyfriend to kill himself may have made bad choices but did not commit any crime, her lawyer argued Massachusetts'
Man arrested for allegedly offering $200K to buy 8-year-old from mother at Florida WalmartUSA TODAY - Ryan W. MillerAn 81-year-old man was arrested after he allegedly offered $200,000 to buy a young girl from her mother at Florida Walmart, local media reported. Police arrested Hellmuth Kolb on Saturday on charges of
Face ID The FBI forced a suspect to unlock his iPhone with his facefuturism.com - Victor Tangermann CAN’T LOOK AWAY The advent of FaceID, a feature that lets iPhone owners log into their devices using facial recognition, means it’s never been easier …
