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Crime, Cross Post Now

In the week since the only child of the late singer Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown was found submerged in a bathtub, there have been conflicating reports on what happened, who was there, and what Bobbi Kristina Brown‘s true health status is. Unfortunately, some of the news emerging is quite disturbing. Breaking celebrity news site TMZ […]

Crime, Cross Post Now, Entertainment

Sadly, Bobbi Kristina Brown’s ordeal is beginning to take its toll on her relatives, and Friday things took a violent turn for two of them. NBC 11 Atlanta reports: Just-released 911 tapes detail a fight at the W Midtown Hotel between Bobbi Kristina’s family while she remains in a coma. The 911 call came in around […]

Alvaro Eduardo Guzman-Telles (pictured) is reportedly being accused of threatening to behead New York City police officer Daniel Pantaleo, the Caucasian cop who placed an unarmed African-American Eric Garner in a deadly chokehold last summer and who was not charged in his death, according to The Detroit News. The Detroit-area man is accused in a federal indictment […]

Jeremy Meeks (pictured), the “hottie thug” who became an internet sensation overnight when his mugshot was posted on Facebook by the Stockton, California police last year, was given a 27-month prison sentence for gun possession by a judge, who apparently was not turned on by his good looks, according to CBS Sacramento. The 30-year-old blue-eyed and extremely photogenic […]

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About 1,510 Cleveland, Ohio police will be equipped with body cameras, nearly 10 weeks after an officer shot and killed a 12-year-old Tamir Rice who was holding a toy gun on a playground, the Los Angeles Times reports. SEE ALSO: Bobby Brown Contradicts Reports That Family Is Gathering To Say Goodbye To Bobbi Kristina Wednesday’s announcement […]

Nine-year-old Sinai Miller (pictured) is very lucky to be alive, after being shot in the leg while selling Girl Scout cookies on her north side Indianapolis neighborhood, according to Fox 59. Sinai and her two younger sisters were excited to sell the famed treats in their family-friendly neighborhood and had just stepped outside of their residence when suddenly […]

Updated Thursday, February 5, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. EST Trayvon Martin would have been 20 today. Let those words sink in and try to imagine the grief of a parent having to bury a child, especially at the hands of a reckless coward who didn’t follow police orders. Sybrina Fulton (pictured below right) and Tracy […]

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Dorian Walker-Gaines (pictured left), 20, and Dillian Thompson (pictured), 22, of Houston, Texas, were arrested Tuesday, after allegedly stealing an iPad and then taking celebratory selfies that were automatically uploaded to the victim’s iCloud account, according to the Smoking Gun, citing court documents. The pair further exacerbated the problem by posting a video on Facebook, […]

COMPTON, Calif. — Former rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight (pictured) is under evaluation after being hospitalized moments after he pleaded not guilty to murder and other felony charges in a hit-and-run that killed a man and injured another. RELATED: Suge Knight Charged In Hit-And-Run Murder Los Angeles sheriff’s officials said late Tuesday that they had […]

Troubled actor and former “Scandal” co-star Columbus Short (pictured) reportedly threatened to kill fellow performer Jaime Foxx, according to Agostina Laneri, whom he got pregnant, states TMZ. SEE ALSO:  Warren Sapp Arrested For Solicitation And Assault, Fired From NFL Network Laneri claims she had to get a restraining order against Short because she feared for not only […]

Hip-hop mogul Suge Knight (pictured) has officially been charged with a hit-and-run incident that took place last week in Compton.  The Death Row Record’s co-founder and former CEO will be arraigned on Tuesday and faces four alleged felony counts, which include murder; an attempted, willful, deliberate, and premeditated murder; plus two charges of hit-and-run, according to the L.A. […]

Crime, Cross Post Now, Nation, Police Brutality

A New York City nonprofit legal group is under fire for taking part in the controversial “Hands Up” rap video. The video, which calls attention to the fact that young Black men die disproportionately at the hands of law enforcement, also appears to advocate violence against police officers, according to NY1. SEE ALSO: Bernie Mac’s Widow Drops […]