Staten Island resident, Eric Garner, died Thursday after a NYPD officer subdued him with a chokehold. Cell phone footage captured at the scene of the tragic event shows Garner screaming that he could not breathe after the move, banned by NYPD, was applied. Roland Martin talked with Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rashad Robinson, Sherrilyn Ifill and Glenn […]
Former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Newt Gingrich (pictured) appeared on “Face the Nation,” applauding former New York City mayors Rudy Giuliani and Mike Bloomberg for the policing strategies they help put in place. The former failed Republican presidential candidate also suggested that President Barack Obama also fueled racial tensions in this country and […]
New York Daily News Exclusive: Two FDNY EMTs say they stopped four NYPD officers from beating a mentally ill patient while he was on a stretcher. The EMTs have reportedly turned the cops in to the authorities. To read a full account of the NYPD beating a mentally disabled man on a stretcher visit the […]
A Staten Island man died Thursday after a New York Police Department officer put him in a chokehold. The incident was captured on video by a bystander and obtained by the The New York Daily News. WATCH VIDEO of the incident via The New York Daily News. Warning: the video is graphic and quite disturbing. You can hear Eric Garner, […]
Subway performers gathered outside City Hall Monday afternoon, denouncing NYPD Commissioner William Bratton’s crackdown on their underground performances this year. Subway arts advocacy group Busk NY and ad-hoc group New Yorkers Against Bratton organized the event. RELATED: New Yorkers Against Bratton Hold Press Conference Denouncing Garner’s Death, Demand Commissioner Resign [VIDEO] Citing section 1050.6 of […]
Just how racist is the Chicago Police Department? This photo paints a pretty bleak picture http://t.co/m86FOaOFbUpic.twitter.com/9NHrZ4lHeh — Slate (@Slate) May 27, 2015 A decade-old photograph featuring White cops and a Black man dressed in antlers has resurfaced after the Chicago Police Department fought to keep it from the public’s eyes, The Chicago Sun-Times reports. A […]
UPDATE: Monday, April 13, 2015 — 4:10 PM EST Robert Bates, the Tulsa County Reserve Deputy who claims he thought he pulled out his Taser when he fatally shot Eric Courtney Harris on April 2, has been charged with second-degree manslaughter. According to police, Bates said he though he was reaching for the Taser, but “inadvertently” […]
Black suspects continue to be overrepresented in crime newscasts in New York City on WCBS, WNBC, WABC, and WNYW, according to a report released Monday by media watchdog group Media Matters. Last year, between August 18 and December 31, late-night weekly news covered murder, theft, and assault cases in which African-Americans were suspects at a much higher […]
The wife of Ramsey Orta, the man who filmed Eric Garner’s fatal encounter with NYPD has been arrested. This comes just a few days after her husband was arrested in an unrelated incident for which she insists he was “set up.” The Staten Island Advance reports: Chrissie Ortiz, 30, the wife of the man who videotaped police […]
Podcast: Download Staten Island resident, Eric Garner, died Thursday after a NYPD officer subdued him with a chokehold. Cell phone footage captured at the scene of the tragic event shows Garner screaming that he could not breathe after the move, banned by NYPD, was applied. Roland Martin talked with Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rashad Robinson, Sherrilyn Ifill and Glenn Ivey about the controversy surrounding Garner’s death, […]
Eric Garner’s daughter has responded to criticism that Rev. Al Sharpton’s recent Washington march excluded young activists. Emerald Garner (pictured center), who co-chaired Sharpton’s “Justice For All” march last Saturday, noted in a released statement that National Action Network, an organizer of the event, asked her and others to decide on who the youth speakers were. ” […]
