Crime

UPDATED, 8:22 PM EST, 2-19-15: While commending the Department of Justice for contemplating filing a lawsuit against the Ferguson Police Department for racial discrimination, Justin Hansford, a civil rights lawyer, activist and professor at St. Louis University Law School, tells NewsOne the problems are not new to most residents. “We who live here didn’t need to […]

Nathan Ferguson (pictured) has traveled here 108 times and now, he has taken his 109th trip—that would be directly to jail! It seems that Ferguson is a record breaker of sorts and not in a good way. As Northeast Ohio’s most-arrested man, Ferguson has now landed behind bars yet again for allegedly stealing a number of teeth […]

A St. Louis man recently filed a lawsuit against the city’s police department after dashcam video footage surfaced of an officer turning the recorder off during his violent arrest, USA Today reports. SEE ALSO: UPDATED: Fox Affiliate Apologizes For Airing Obama Photo Instead Of Rape Suspect [VIDEO] In the suit filed in January, the man, Cortez […]

The suspect who gunned down a young newlywed Muslim couple and the wife’s sister was indicted on murder charges on Monday, according to NBCNews.com. Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, was indicted on three counts of murder and one count of discharging a firearm into an occupied dwelling. RELATED: UNC Chapel Hill Shooting Leaves Three Muslim Students […]

A  Mississippi Republican judge has been indicted on an assault charge after striking a mentally disabled man and hurling racial slurs at him last spring at an event in Canton, Miss. The Clarion-Ledger reports: [Madison County] Justice Court Judge Bill Weisenberger turned himself in to the Madison County sheriff Thursday, according to a spokeswoman with […]

Nineteen-year-old Farida recalls weeping as she stood among 80 other girls in a large room as men—young and old—looked them over like chattel in Raqqa, the ISIS capital in eastern Syria, according to NBC News. SEE ALSO: Hundreds Protest Police Shooting Of Homeless Man For Throwing Rocks [VIDEO] After ISIS fighters overran her village in August, […]

A 35-year-old homeless man in Pasco, Wash. was shot and killed after throwing multiple rocks at two police officers in what Pasco Police Chief Bob Metzger…

Alton Walter (pictured), a Richmond County Georgia Sheriff’s deputy is facing felony charges of false imprisonment and cruelty to children in the first degree for allegedly handcuffing a 12-year-old boy to a pole, then beating and tasering him, reports WRDW News. The child’s mother, who has not been identified, reportedly called upon her friend Walter to […]

A teen is demanding an apology from the Los Angeles Police Department after he was shot Tuesday while standing next to a person who was holding a toy gun, according to the Los Angeles Times. SEE ALSO: Young Mother Of Four Wins $188 Million Powerball Jackpot! Jamar Nicholson, 15, of Los Angeles, was unarmed when he […]

In the aftermath of ongoing protests over police-involved shootings of unarmed Black men, the FBI director waded deep into the debate Thursday, urging law enforcement to examine its strained relationship with communities of color. In the most “significant remarks ever made by an FBI director about race and law enforcement,” Politico reports that James B. […]

UPDATE: 2/11/2015 11:05 A.M.  Police have charged Craig Stephen Hicks  with three counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of North Carolina University students…

An 11-year-old Ohio girl (pictured) allegedly beat a two-month old baby to death last Friday, 19 Action News reports. SEE ALSO: Decoding President Obama’s Budget: It All Comes Down To The Numbers The girl’s mother had been babysitting infant Zuri Whitehead at her Wickliffe home when she fell asleep. Taking advantage, the 11-year-old took the […]