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Bill Cosby (pictured) has allegedly hired a squad of private investigators to dredge up dirt on some of the women accusing him of sexual assault in order to discredit them, reports the New York Post. RELATED: Sammy Davis Jr.’s Ex-Girlfriend Accuses Bill Cosby Of Rape The beleaguered 77-year-old actor-comedian is reportedly paying six-figure fees to a […]
Black civilians in New York are not the only ones fearful of encounters with the police. Turns out, a number of Black New York Police Department officers say that while off-duty they have experienced the same pernicious racial profiling that cost unarmed 43-year-old Eric Garner his life, Reuters reports. Reuters interviewed 25 African-American male officers, […]
A Baltimore, Md., Fox News affiliate has apologized for editing a broadcast report to make it appear as if protesters demonstrating against police violence were chanting, “kill a cop,” according to Talking Points Memo. RELATED: Obama Launches Task Force To Examine Police-Community Relations Gawker, the website, reported Monday that the affiliate, WBFF-TV, had edited footage of […]
A Harris County, Texas, grand jury has cleared a veteran police officer in the fatal shooting of unarmed 26-year-old Jordan Baker (pictured), USA Today reports. SEE ALSO: Ex-Milwaukee Cop Will Not Be Charged In Fatal Shooting Of Unarmed Man [VIDEO] Officials announced Tuesday that officer Juventino Castro would not face criminal charges in the January shooting death […]
A Florida judge on Tuesday ordered Ebony Wilkerson, the Mother who drove her children in to the Atlantic Ocean in March, to be committed to a state mental hospital, NBC News reports. RELATED: Fla. Mom Who Drove Kids Into Ocean Not Guilty By Reason Of Insanity Circuit Judge Leah R. Case found that Wilkerson met the legal […]
The family of North Carolina high school student who was slain in Baltimore in 2010 will have to wait for justice a bit longer. Reports WBFF-Fox 45: A high profile Baltimore murder case ends in a mistrial Monday morning leaving a family looking for answers. 30-year-old Michael Maurice Johnson is accused of killing 16-year-old Phylicia […]
Police are pursuing criminal charges against Charles DiRosa (pictured) who posted, “Put wings on pigs,” to his Facebook page, MassLive reports. RELATED: Information Released On Lives Of 2 Officers Who Were Killed DiRosa posted the status days after Ismaaiyl Brinsley used it on his Instagram. The 28-year-old Brinsley then traveled to New York City and fatally […]
A former Milwaukee, Wisc., police officer will not be charged in the fatal shooting of an unarmed Black man he encountered in a park this spring, a prosecutor announced on Monday, according to The New York Times. Protesters in the city cited the shooting as yet another example of excessive force against Black men by […]
Katherine McKee (pictured) is yet another woman who has come forward accusing Bill Cosby of sexual assault, the New York Daily News reports. RELATED: Does The “Sheer Volume Of Accusers” Make Bill Cosby Guilty Of Rape? Speaking exclusively with the Daily News, McKee says Cosby raped her in a Michigan hotel room while she was […]
UPDATED 12/23/14, 10:31 a.m., EST: On Monday, Cuban government officials said that they have a right to grant asylum to U.S. fugitives, sending the loudest message yet that they have no intention of extraditing Assata Shakur (pictured) — America’s most-wanted woman — despite thawing relations between the United States and Cuba, the Associated Press reports. […]
UPDATED Sunday, December 21, 2014 at 10:05 a.m., E.T. – A politically divisive firestorm has erupted in reaction to the killing of 2 police officers by a man who vowed on social media to “put wings on pigs” in retaliation for the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown. New York police union head Pat Lynch placed […]
The White girlfriend of slain 17-year-old Lennon Lacy, who was found in a trailer park, hanging from a swing set, says he was “murdered” and claims that they had been the targets of racial slurs in rural Bladenboro, N.C., the New York Daily News writes, citing a Daily Mail report. Michelle Brimhall, 32, broke her […]
