Georgia jails are brimming over with inmates and part of that seems to be because the Atlanta Police Department reportedly insists on arresting civilians for jaywalking. In fact, according to WSB-TV,  Atlanta’s law enforcement teams issued about 266 tickets for obstructing the roadway, which is a form of jaywalking, and many of those who received tickets were reportedly thrown behind […]

The city of Charlotte, North Carolina has stopped paying the  civil defense legal fees of Randall ‘Wes’ Kerrick, 28, the police officer charged with voluntary manslaughter in the September 14, 2013 shooting death of 24-year-old Jonathan Ferrell, reports WSOCTV.com. RELATED: Former Cop Indicted In Fatal Shooting Of Unarmed Jonathan Ferrell As previously reported by NewsOne, Ferrell, a former Florida […]

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Georgia Teen Files $12.5M Lawsuit Against Waycross Police Georgia teenager Montre Merritt has filed a $12.5 million lawsuit against the city of Waycross alleging that he was wrongfully arrested and brutalized at the hands of Waycross police officer Cory Gay. According to Merritt, earlier this year after pulling into his family’s driveway he was approached […]

No matter who or what you are, you are likely to occasionally fall victim to looking at the world through a very specific lens. Such is anyone’s right, and ultimately, our experiences are our experiences. However, with a certain level of knowledge and an equal measure of maturity should come one realization: It isn’t all […]

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  Young Black males in recent years were at a far greater risk of being shot dead by police than their White counterparts – 21 times greater , according to a ProPublica analysis of federally collected data on fatal police shootings. The 1,217 deadly police shootings from 2010 to 2012 captured in the federal data […]

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Recently released surveillance footage from Shaw Market in St. Louis shows 18-year-old Vonderrit Myers (pictured above with his mother) buying a sandwich minutes before being shot by a St. Louis police officer. RELATED: St. Louis Police Fatally Shoots Teen, Family Claims He Was Unarmed As previously reported by NewsOne, St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson claims […]

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UPDATE 10/09/2014, 1:28 A.M.: See live stream of protests on the ground in St. Louis below. An off-duty St. Louis police officer shot and killed a fleeing teenage suspect, whom relatives claim was simply holding a sandwich, reports FOX2now.com. The shooting occurred around 7:30 p.m. at the 4100 block of Shaw Blvd. in south St. Louis. […]

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Another case of police brutality is being reported in Hammond, IN. Jamal Jones was a passenger in his girlfriend’s car when Hammond police stopped the vehicle for a seat belt infraction. The traffic stop turned violent when police smashed the passenger side window, tased Jones and pulled him out of the car. Roland Martin and […]

As exhausting as it is to write about the continued mistreatment of Black people — male, female, adult, and youth alike — and as tiresome as it must be to continue to read about it, let us never forget that it is even worse for those who have to experience it firsthand. Tracy Hamilton admits that her […]

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  Two NYPD officers, Tyrane Isaac and David Afanador, are under investigation for beating and pistol-whipping an unarmed teenager in Brooklyn. Kahreem Tribble, 16, had his hands up at the time of the attack. Gawker reports: The two officers were pursuing Tribble after he allegedly dropped a bag of weed and began running at 1311 […]

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There is an old saying: “What’s understood doesn’t have to be explained.” Apparently, police officers in Ferguson and St. Louis, Missouri are lacking in the understanding department, so the United States Department of Justice had to explain to them that it’s inappropriate to where “I Am Darren Wilson” wristbands while policing protests in Ferguson. Darren […]