Sara Bennett, who lives in the predominantly White neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York’s Park Slope area, reportedly witnessed a New York City policeman yell over the loudspeaker of his cruiser to a group of strolling Black youths, “Get out of the neighborhood!” states DNA Info New York. SEE ALSO: Mother of 4-Year-Old Girl Vanishes After Cryptic Phone Call To Family According […]
Stop Mass Inc., created by Dr. Cornel West and activist Carl Dix, have marched endlessly for racial injustice and now introduce "Rise Up October," a three-day event (Oct. 22 to Oct 24) in New York that will continue to fight against police killings.
A woman’s First Amendment rights may have been violated last week when a U.S. Marshal allegedly destroyed her recording device while she was filming an arrest, the Huffington Post reports. Officials are now looking into the April 19 incident, during which a woman recorded several officers in South Gate, California. The officers arrived to the area in response to a call about […]
Kalief Browder, the 22-year-old who was horrendously abused by police officers on Rikers Island as a teen, was facing new charges shortly before his suicide on Saturday, the New York Daily News reports. Browder’s lawyer calls the charges against Kalief and his brother Kamal, 22, “baseless.” Both brothers were facing disorderly conduct and resisting arrest charges on Wednesday […]
An African American family received a racist letter from their new neighbors in Lindenhurst, New York and Suffolk County police are investigating it as a possible hate crime, Pix11.com reports. Ronica Copes found the letter in her mailbox last Thursday and called her mother Darcell Copes at work to tell her what happened. She then posted […]
Fresh off the start of his four day “Justice For Michael Brown” weekend, the Rev. Al Sharpton (pictured center) spoke at National Action Network HQ Saturday morning. He offered the attentive crowd updates on a variety of subjects, including yesterday’s surprise resignation of NYPD Chief Philip Banks and allegations surrounding Gwen Carr (pictured in background with headdress, […]
In response to a decision made by their union to stand with organizations calling for justice for Eric Garner, who was killed by an NYPD chokehold, a group of New York City schoolteachers moved last week to show their support for the NYPD in the classroom. One image, culled by the New York Post from Facebook, shows a […]
New Yorkers Against Bratton (NYAB) held another rally/press conference at City Hall Monday, shortly before a city council meeting on officer instruction in light of recent police conduct throughout the city. The organization repudiated the NYPD’s renewed focus on training officers in how they interact with the public. RELATED: New Yorkers Against Bratton Hold Press Conference Denouncing Garner’s […]
The NYPD’s approval ratings have reportedly taken a strong hit in the wake of Eric Garner’s death, a new Quinipiac poll shows. SEE ALSO: Kill A Black Teen And Make Six Figures Soon After The poll found that the department’s approval rating has dropped 50 percent: 42 percent of New Yorkers disapprove of how the […]
The NYPD has identified the human remains found in Brooklyn two years ago as Erica McDaniel’s (pictured), the New York Daily News reports. SEE ALSO: Watching This On TV Could Be Why You’re Overweight Officers found McDaniel’s skeletal remains in a suitcase in a Bedford Stuyvesant building in March 2013. The building was burned out and […]
Last week’s 24-hour Grand Central die-in protests included two arrests, Reverend Billy Talen and Marc Train, for allegedly assaulting MTA officers. RELATED: #BlackLivesMatter Protesters Occupy Grand Central For 24 Hours As a result, the MTA decided to enforce its ban on die-ins, demonstrations where protesters lie down as if dead, but that didn’t go over well with […]
